It was described as an electronic dance music (EDM) album, with influences varying from trance, electro house and techno to Hi-NRG, synth-pop and chillout.

It was aided by the release of five singles, "Hot" (2008), "Love" (2009), "Déjà Vu" (2009), "Amazing" (2009) and "10 Minutes" (2010), which achieved success on record charts.

[20] Critical commentary has noted Hot as an EDM album,[2] with Lewis Corner of Digital Spy pointing out "pumping Euro-beats and dainty synth chord progressions".

[22] The record opens with "Hot", an "unadulterated and stylised" trance-inspired electro house song,[21] containing "ticky" synthesizer sounds similar to German band Boney M.'s "Ma Baker" (1977), and "trancey, hypnotic" beats.

[21] Neeti Sarkar, writing for The Hindu, thought that the next track "Days Nights" was "rhetoric [...] [with] the singer plead[ing] in desperation for her man to return to her".

[21] It is followed by "On & On", with Sarker noting: "[It] is simple and tuneful, sometimes sounding like a poem with alternate lines rhyming";[21] a chillout mix is also included on Hot.

[4] "Déjà Vu", with Bob Taylor, was labelled as a dance track,[26] while "10 Minutes" belongs to the synth-pop and electropop genres,[21] stylized to fit the style of music consumed in the United States.

Corner of Digital Spy thought that the album "does exactly what you would expect from the scantily clad Inna [...], there's no denying that the sound emanates summer warmth and memories of partying down the [insert Greek island here] strip, but little else is achieved."

Corner further criticized album tracks "Fever", "Ladies" and "Left Right" as lacking innovation, while concluding: "Inoffensive if not a little uninspiring, Hot is a worthy soundtrack for this year's 18–30 clubbers, but even they might struggle to see this one out to the bitter end.

[31] In the Czech Republic (ČNS IFPI), the album opened and peaked at number seven in February 2010, spending a total of 17 non-consecutive weeks on the chart.

[50][51][52] "Déjà Vu", the album's third single in collaboration with Bogdan Croitoru, caused controversy when the two artists used the pseudonyms of Anni and Bob Taylor.

[62] "Amazing" attracted controversy when it premiered in August 2009,[8] with Romanian singer Anca Badiu revealing that it had been originally intended for her before released by Inna, and accusing Play & Win of breach of contract.