[3] Andy Biddulph of Rock Sound described it as "a love song – or the closest thing to it that this band has ever written", and as a "cross between PVRIS and Linkin Park".

[4] In a pre-release review of the album, Gigwise's Amy Gravelle noted that "Follow You" sees Sykes "pour[ing] out his heart in an emotional epilogue".

[7] Bring Me the Horizon vocalist Oliver Sykes and keyboardist Jordan Fish originally started writing "Follow You" at around the same time as they wrote "Drown", which was released as a single in 2014.

[8] According to Sykes, the song's lyrics were based on his relationship with his wife during "a particular rough patch, when things weren't looking too good"; during a track-by-track commentary of the album for Spotify, he explained that the overarching message was that "no matter how bad being together can sometimes get, the alternative is just so much worse".

[10][11] Loudwire's Joe DiVita proposed that while the video was "brutally graphic" and "NSFW", this served as "the perfect juxtaposition" to the "somber and emotional song" to which it was the visual accompaniment.

[10] Emmy Mack of Music Feeds displayed shock at the video, describing it as "a gruesome, NSFW fucking bloodbath", although did praise the production by noting that "The whole thing is a god damn motherfucking horror movie.

praised the song for "reigning in the force while remaining impactful", in contrast to much of the rest of the album which he criticised for sounding too similar to bands such as Thirty Seconds to Mars and Linkin Park.