"[2] The song begins with a ten-second rendition of the chorus of "Wild Mountain Thyme".

[3] In a review of Out of Body, Barbara Jaeger of The Record described the song as an "Irish-inflected rocker" which with "Twenty Five Hours a Day" gets the album "off to a brilliant start".

[4] John Everson of the Southtown Star considered the song to be the Hooters' "playful answer" to "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", with Lauper's appearance "brighten[ing] up the proceedings".

[5] Scott Benarde of The Palm Beach Post felt the collaboration between the Hooters and Lauper was a "winning formula" on the "muscular pop-rock tune".

[6] Ira Robins of Trouser Press described the song as an "ebullient number that could have gone on Lauper's first album".