So it was all really fast and accelerated [...] I'd have my little space station worked out where it was like a keyboard, an acoustic, an electric, my journal and a microphone set up, and we'd record it all onto DAT.
[7] Mark Blake of Q picked as one of the album's peaks, noting that it "couch[es] the message in some of the most inviting music of her career.
"[9] Rob Mitchum of Pitchfork Media believed that the song is about "what it feels like to be dumped by Dave Coulier," also praising Morissette's "unmitigated and highly concentrated ferocity of her lyrical confessions.
"[5] Miles Marshall Lewis of LA Weekly called it "the most straight-ahead ballad at over six minutes", and that it "falls short of [Morissette's] majestic 'Uninvited'.
With lines like, 'how long can a girl be tortured by you' the real question should be how many different ways can Morissette find to voice the same trite complaint?.
"[11] "Flinch" was released as a single only in Brazil, since it was included on the soundtrack of Brazilian soap opera "Desejos de Mulher" in 2002, being the main theme of the romantic couple played by actress Glória Pires and Eduardo Moscovis.
[12] Morissette performed "Flinch" in Brazil as part of a showcase, directed by Mauro Mendonça Filho, for the television newsmagazine Fantástico.