Once the lyrics grew more substantially, he realised it had become a benchmark for A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, changing the album's overall structure from a personal, introspective diary of the singer's life into an outward-facing record.

To accomplish this, he looked to the narrative of Prince's "Sign o' the Times" (1987), seeking to create a "super modern" version that documents the most political and socially volatile period of the band's life.

[5] Healy had previously written "Consultation, degradation, fossil-fueling masturbation / Immigration, liberal kitsch, kneeling on a pitch", followed by a missing gap of seven syllables and the line "excited to be indicted".

While singing the melody to himself in a car, Healy realised that "I moved on her like a bitch" – a remark made by Trump captured on the Access Hollywood tape – fit perfectly.

Speaking to Genius, the singer noted that radio stations would censor the line "I moved on her like a bitch", despite the band merely repeating a statement uttered by the president of the United States.

[6] Healy's use of "daddy" in "Love It If We Made It" stemmed from his fascination with internet meme culture, noting the term has evolved to denote a sexual connotation in the online world.

[30][31] "Love It If We Made It" opens with near-silence for the first 24 seconds,[29] containing a simple set of staccato chords, swirls of sparkling synths, wind chimes, piano notes and a quietly pulsing keyboard–providing the backbone of the production.

[29][33] Healy opens the verse with a 16-word couplet that captures the feelings of youth, disaffection and desperation with "extreme concision", as described by Pryor Stroud of Slant Magazine, singing: "We're fucking in a car, shooting heroin / Saying controversial things just for the hell of it.

[37] In the first verse, Healy speaks on the opioid epidemic,[25] anti-black racism, police brutality,[38] the Black Lives Matter movement, cybersecurity breaches, the prison-industrial complex in the United States, fake news and the singer's heroin addiction.

[41][39] The third and final verse contains two quotes from Trump—including a Twitter interaction with West—highlighting the former's overt bigotry, racism and prejudice,[37][38] alongside references to the right-wing immigration debate and the US national anthem protests.

[28] Chris Richards of The Washington Post considers "Love It If We Made It" to be a contemporary protest song, finding Healy's frustration with capitalism is misdirected at modernity.

[42] Mitch Mosk of Atwood Magazine also identified it as a protest song, capturing the feelings of overwhelmingness and hope while providing a wakeup call that demands a change be made in society.

[37] Similarly, Roisin O'Connor of The Independent called "Love It If We Made It" a generational protest song, on par with Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" (1989) and Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" (1988).

"[44] Jessica Sager of Parade called "Love It If We Made It" a furious attack on societal issues that plagued the second half of the 2010s, "from the opioid epidemic to fossil fuels to racism, for-profit prisons and xenophobia—to name a few".

[26] Joe Cascarelli of The New York Times felt "Love It If We Made It" serves as the thesis statement to A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, noting that while it is nearly impossible to classify, it could be compared to "We Didn't Start the Fire".

[35] Jisselle Fernandez of B-Sides called the song a "plea for modern society to change their destructive ways and find a possible solution over this course of madness while electro-pop synths pulsate".

One poster read "poison me daddy", which Tom Connick of NME called a "tongue-in-cheek reference to the all-or-nothing fan culture employed by modern audiences".

[54] "Love it or hate it, no other single bottled the essence of 2018 so completely—the mind-numbing, flattening effect of the news cycle, the difficulty of extricating oneself from the grid (coupled with the deep desire to do just that), the anarchic urge to sometimes just throw up your hands and scream 'POISON ME DADDY' at an indifferent sky.

[70] Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic described "Love It If We Made It" as the "grab-bag political anthem of [the modern] era", including it in a list of historic pop tracks meant to represent the anxiety of the 2020 United States presidential election.

[71] Jake Indiana of Highsnobiety said the band "have truly captured lightning in a bottle", writing that "Love It If We Made It" represents "the first – and by measure, only – song that comes remotely close to being an anthem for our era".

[9] Matt Collar of AllMusic called "Love It If We Made It" a "buoyantly earnest anthem" and internet-era version of "We Didn't Start the Fire", Van Halen's "Right Now" (1992) and Phil Collins' "Another Day in Paradise" (1989).

[76] Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes of The Guardian called it the millennial version of "We Didn't Start the Fire" and "Sign O' the Times", praising Healy's numbed, intense vocal delivery and the incorporation of faith and empathy.

[77] Iverson praised Healy's vocal performance as the best of the 2010s, saying "Love It If We Made It" was essentially a miniaturized version of the decade expressed in a "danceable, four-minute package" serving as a testament to the singer's ability as a frontman.

[113] The visual expands upon the vertical version and features the same silhouette footage against coloured backdrops, interspersed with found footage-style clips of war, selfies, news headlines, heroes, villains, affected youth, calamities and social woes.

[50] As the second verse begins, Healy takes a selfie against a billboard reading "Poison me daddy", referencing the song's promotional campaign, before displaying a video from the 2011 London riots.

Next, as the singer describes a scene of drowned children on a beach, images of Alan Kurdi are shown before shifting to a billboard reading "Rest in Peace Lil Peep".

"[118][119] Connick deemed the video a "state of the union address for a fractured planet", calling it gripping and effortlessly stylish, noting it moves at an "incessant, scatter-brained pace".

[50] Brooke Bajgrowicz of Billboard wrote that the visual's commentary on social issues and images were juxtaposed by the uplifting sound of "Love It If We Made It", highlighting the use of diverse faces to serve as "a reminder that the people affected by the world's mess are simply human, regardless of race, gender or ethnicity".

Bajgrowicz also observed a political undertone in the video toward the end, represented by the footage of Trump, Kavanaugh and West, commenting that it references the former president's "creation of literal and metaphorical war".

[117] Patrick Hosken of MTV News commended the "dazzling" and "staggeringly beautiful" video, specifically praising the synchronized dance sequence as "incredible" and writing that it serves to physicalize the song's angst.