[6] The album was made in collaboration with American musician David Gamson, whom she met in 2016 when PC Music traveled to Los Angeles for their Pop City event.

[13] Steve Erickson of Slant Magazine wrote that "lyrically, the songs on Perfect Picture find [Diamond] in a constant state of anxiety about her looks and public perception" and she "constructs a world of exaggerated femininity without drowning in irony".

[17] DIY's Otis Robinson called it "the pinnacle of today's hyperpop yet steers away from its once abrasive nature towards a well-rounded, rebooted version: one where all that Hannah is and can be is indeed made picture perfect".

[1] Peyton Toups, reviewing the album for Pitchfork, wrote that it "embraces a blurrier resolution where pitch-shifted vocals glitch in and out of static and punchy, arpeggiated synths leap into massive choruses".

[15] Reviewing the album for Clash, Bryson Edward Howe commented that it "still evokes the half-remembered sound of worn-out Spice Girls cassettes, coated in the same plastic gloss as the posters adorning bedroom walls, but navigates a more complex interplay between the different brands of nostalgia within a typically kaleidoscopic soundscape".