[4] The music video of the song premiered on the Sundance Channel on June 10, 2012,[5][6] and was directed by Joseph Cahill in Paris, France.

[7] It features scenes of Apple in a bed with a Minotaur, with snails, feeding an alligator, and wearing an octopus for a hat.

"[11] Robbie Daw of Idolator offered a mixed review by calling the song a "delicate and quirky track".

Lacking either ornate production or a pop single, The Idler Wheel... plays like Fiona Apple at her purest and that's plenty complicated.

[citation needed] "Every Single Night" was sampled in rapper Lil Nas X's song "Kim Jong" off of his 2018 mixtape Nasarati.