The lyrics contain a reference to the 1990 film Thelma & Louise, and the single's cover was photographed by Tim Bret Day.

[3] Rob Johnson of Into the Popvoid called "Friends Forever" a "happy, breezy affair" and went on to describe the song as a "wonderful guitar rock/pop backing track that Belinda Carlisle would have been proud of".

[1] In a review of the soundtrack album to Center Stage, William Ruhlmann said the track "sounds like it could be the anthem for the junior high school class of 2000".

[8] Follow-up single "It's About Time You Were Mine" reached only number 43 in the United Kingdom,[6] and the group soon disbanded.

Rob Johnson of Into the Popvoid attributed the band's brief success to the decline in popularity of girl groups during the late 1990s, the release of "It's About Time You Were Mine" during the busy Christmas holiday period, and the failure of the minidisc format, on which the parent album Delicious was released.