Alexis Petridis of The Guardian described it as an "uncharacteristically sunlit" song that "Shawn Mendes or Zara Larsson could conceivably cover, rather than just nick the sound of".
[2] The xx performed "I Dare You" for the first time during the 19 November 2016 episode of Saturday Night Live, along with "On Hold", the album's lead single.
The video stars Millie Bobby Brown, Ernesto Cervantes, Paris Jackson, Ashton Sanders and Lulu Tenney, also featuring band members Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie xx.
[6][7][8][9] The band tweeted that the video is "[o]ur love letter to Los Angeles, a city close to our hearts, where we wrote and recorded parts of our album 'I See You'.
[6][9] According to Billboard's Sam Reed, the video "has a vintage Americana feel to it – the camera work even mimics the fuzzy look of an '80s-era VHS tape, bringing to mind a suburban-set John Hughes film".