"Everybody Everybody" contains a sample of Larry Blackmon's vocals and a drum loop from Bobby Byrd's 1987 remix of James Brown's song "Hot Pants" (1971).

However, she was not credited on the album's liner notes as French fashion model Katrin Quinol was brought in to phonetically learn the songs on Dreamland for seven months despite not knowing the English language, and made several appearances as part of the group.

[4] On 21 November 1990, several consumer class action lawsuits were issued in the Los Angeles Federal District Court relating to Milli Vanilli and Black Box.

[3] Writing for The Network Forty, Yvette Ziraldo opined that the production is "infectious",[20] while Chris Heath of Smash Hits declared it as "almost brilliant".

[21] Ernest Hardy of Cashbox complimented the song's "raw vocal" alongside the production's "relentless groove", but noted the similar sound with Black Box's previous singles "Ride on Time" and "I Don't Know Anybody Else".

[22] NME writer Roger Morton praised the song as a successor to "Ride on Time" with its "burnished gold vocal[s]", but recognized that they were lip-synched.

[12] Pitchfork writer David Raposa ranked the song on their list of Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s at number 171 in 2010, stating that the Cameo sample distinguished it from other "pop-house bandwagoners".

[2] Writing for the St. Petersburg Times, Jean Carey considered the video to be "lame" and wrote that it "encourage[d] the rumors" about "the group's mystery vocalist".

[32] Dominican-American group Proyecto Uno covered the song under the title "Todo El Mundo", with Remezcla writer Cheky acknowledging that it connected with "Black-American culture" and made the merenhouse genre prevalent.

[33] A cutaway segment on the episode of American animated series Family Guy titled "Play It Again, Brian" included "Everybody Everybody", which was performed by the character Cleveland Brown.