[3][4] Two singles with accompanying music videos were released from the album: "What a Life" and "Universal Heart-Beat."

[5][6] Produced by Paul Q. Kolderie and Sean Slade, who had previously produced Hole's very successful Live Through This, the album features heavily distorted guitar tones with catchy pop songs.

[7] AllMusic wrote that "even with the improved musicianship, Hatfield isn't able to deliver consistently impressive songs, occasionally relying on her cuteness to cover underdeveloped lyrics and pedestrian melodies.

"[5] Trouser Press wrote that "Hatfield cranked it up on Only Everything without losing her instinctive pop charms or her treatises on what she describes as 'white, middle-class angst.

'”[10] All tracks are written by Juliana HatfieldCredits adapted from CD liner notes.