Billboards Kyle Denis ranked the track as the fourteenth best track on the album. Denis wrote that the track is "bogged down by a clunky chorus and more corny bars". Luke Morgan Britton of
NME stated the song "brims with
stream-of-conscious bars". Paul Attard of
Slant Magazine criticized the song in regard to a particular line, writing "'Asked me if I coulda treated you better, but no,' he asks himself on the album's sweeping opener 'Virginia Beach,' and he rushes to that answer before he can even seriously consider the quandary before him. Thinking twice is reserved solely for wimps, apparently." ==Charts==