[2] However, she agreed to defer to the judgement of her writing and production team, Stock Aitken & Waterman (SAW), due to their massive international chart success at the time.

[2] She declined to film a video for the single, which went ahead without her, and confessed she found it difficult to participate in promotional duties for the track.

"[3] Retrospectively, in 2017, Christian Guiltenane of British magazine Attitude stated that it was "nothing short of a sensation – a powerful hiRNG bullet that thwacks you right between the ears.

[5] "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt" met with some success, although it did not manage to duplicate the same chart trajectories of Summer's previous single, "This Time I Know It's for Real".

[8][9] It missed the top-20 by one place in Italy and France,[10][11] was a top-25 hit in West Germany and barely entered the top 30 in the Netherlands.