Written and produced by Swift and Jack Antonoff, it is a Western, Americana, and country pop song with a sparse arrangement featuring twangy tremolo guitars backed by drum machine and keyboards.
[4] "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)" was released as part of The Tortured Poets Department on April 19, 2024, via Republic Records;[5] it is number 11 on the standard track listing.
[21] The track's arrangement is minimal[22] and features sparse, tremolo twangy guitars,[23][24] a backdrop of drum machines and keyboards,[25] and reverbed percussion slaps to accentuate the lyrics.
[27] Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone described the arrangement as "moody coffee-house",[28] while Nate Jones of Vulture wrote that the production sounds "like it comes straight out of an Old West saloon".
[26] Annie Zaleski regarded the song as a sonic highlight on The Tortured Poets Department and wrote that it is best listened to using "very good headphones",[17] and Jones described it as a "fun little genre pastiche".
[21] However, Paste provided a negative review, saying that while the track showed Swift venturing to musical directions that evoked the "country renegades" before her like Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn, it fell flat due to her "self-aggrandizing inflation of importance, glinting through via a seismically-bland bridge".