Starting off with Zayn looking out over the ocean, the clip quickly cycles through music video shots and words in red on a black background.

[18][19] He later arrives at a club to make a delivery to Bauer, after which the video transitions into dreamlike images of him being physically intimate and implying sex with the woman he saw earlier.

[21][22] Hugh McIntyre of Forbes found the song "decidedly sweeter and more restrained than his recent offerings", complimenting its ability to not "rely on big electro beats or any gimmicks to sell itself".

[23] Lauren O'Neill of Noisey called the song an indication of "a mellower, more grown-up approach on album two", writing that it showcases "the strong upper part of Zayn's vocal range and falsetto".

[24] Writing for Pitchfork in a review of Icarus Falls, Maura Johnston said Zayn's "ability to just barely pull off th[e] bodice-ripper-worthy" opening line, "Sweet baby, our sex has meaning", is a "sign of his skillful interpretative sense".

Johnston also called it "a gorgeous opening, straddling the space between the breezy acousti-R&B that dominated the late '00s and the snare-heavy rhythms of modern trap-pop while also flaunting Zayn's falsetto".