The track was written by Uli Brenner, Lane McCray, Gerd Amir Saraf and Melanie Thornton, with production handled by Afrojack and METI.

Musically, "Be My Lover" encompasses dubstep, electro dance, club and house genres, sampling the 1995 song of the same name by La Bouche, for which Brenner, McCray, Saraf and Thornton received writing credits.

To promote the track, an accompanying music video was uploaded onto Inna's official YouTube channel on 11 July 2013, featuring the singer in the middle of a huge crowd.

[9] Raluca Tanasă from InfoMusic called "Be My Lover" suitable for clubs, further writing that it feeds a "pungent energy, inviting the audience to dance and fun", and had potential to be a summer hit.

[16] The music video commences with Inna and background dancers dancing in a desert, following which the singer stands in the middle of a huge crowd, with confetti falling from the sky; shots of three women performing synchronized choreography are occasionally shown.

[14] Pure Charts' Ruelle wrote that the music video was similar to Inna's past material, concluding, "No doubt, the beauty has lost none of its charm.