Chuck Taylor of
Billboard called the song a "melodic adult
pop/
rocker" and a "knock-out, stand-out, break-out record that adult top 40 should take right home." Matt LeMay of
Pitchfork said that with the "cookie-cutter rock/pop background, it could easily pass for
Michelle Branch." Mary Huhn of the
New York Post called the song "a breathless romantic confection, and very un-Phair-like". Mim Udovitch of
Slate called the song an "almost parodically basic power ballad" but stated that the chorus is "hooky". Keith Phipps of
The A.V. Club criticized the song, referring to it as "an embarrassingly awkward marriage of dumbed-down Phair songwriting and every tired production trick of the last year". Adrien Begrand of
PopMatters compared the song to
Avril Lavigne, referring to it as "a note-for-note retread of Lavigne's "
Complicated". ==Music video==