British tabloid The News Letter described the song as "more sophisticated than the blaring, synth-heavy pop of their classic years".

[9] In its review of The Block, Billboard declared: "They also turn an homage to "Dirty Dancing" into a bump and grind that is far, far from the innocence of the Patrick Swayze original, or the New Kids music, for that matter".

[10] New Kids On The Block sang an excerpt from the song at 2008 American Music Awards[11] as well as Good Morning America.

Shot in a medieval background, the video, directed by Til Schweiger, intersperses scenes from the German film "The 1½ Knights - In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde" (German title: "1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde"),[12][13] in which he appears, with footage of the band performing the song in front of a mostly all-female audience.

"Dirty Dancing" has gathered 17,577,000 audience impressions and 3,354 total spins in the United States of America to date, without being officially released.