It received generally positive reviews from music critics and was a commercial success, appearing on over a dozen sales and streaming charts.

[2] The Rolling Stones remotely performed at Global Citizen's Together at Home concert on 18 April 2020, helping raise money for healthcare workers and the World Health Organization during the crisis.

It was based on 2019 recording sessions and finished remotely, making this their first original material since 2012[4] and their first release since the 2016 cover album Blue & Lonesome.

"[11] The song was initially released for digital download and streaming as a single on 23 April 2020, being accompanied by a music video with footage of empty city streets that was taken from across the world.

[5] Writing for The Irish Times, Will Hodginkson gave the same score and agreed that the song's pacing and mood captures the experience of being in lockdown during the pandemic.

[14] Mark Beaumont of NME panned the track, calling it a "a rushed and half-baked comment on our current predicament", particularly critiquing the lyrics, as "Jagger perhaps doesn't have it in him to speak to the real discomfort and isolation of the average British hutch dweller, or the fear and hopelessness of the millions falling unfairly through the gaping holes in Rishi Sunak's fishnet safety packages".