[8][9] She revealed in a Vogue interview that the collaboration was recorded "years ago and it was time [to] re-produce it and share it with my incredible fans.

[12] Journalists pointed out how neither performers look their current age on the cover image,[13] and was named "the first sign of catastrophe" around the song.

Jamie Tabberer at Attitude rated it one out of five stars, criticizing will.i.am for his "foolishly bad judgement" in releasing the song, labelling it as "unlistenable" with lyrics that are "utter nonsense" and believed that Spears was "almost entirely absent from this project" as "she sounds nothing like herself".

[14] Alexa Camp of Slant Magazine also gave the song a negative review, calling it "mind-numbingly repetitive" and "dumb", featuring "robotic, sliced-and-diced vocal from Spears.

"[15] Naming it Spears's "worst song ever", Lyric Waiwiri-Smith of New Zealand news media Stuff pointed out the "beat that sounds like the work of a child playing on a toy DJ mixer" and the "nonsensical" lyrics, which are "a mash-up of internet colloquialisms and random words bunched together without any real meaning".

[16] Writing for British newspaper i, Emily Bootle described the track as "artificial, forgettable and harsh" and "the most perfunctory kind of pop music you can imagine".

[17] At Consequence, the track was described as "fun, danceable", "with a driving beat and the repeating refrain, 'Mind your business, bitch,' the single features everything you'd want from a collaboration between the two pop icons.