[3] "Pretty Savage" was performed with "Lovesick Girls" on music and variety shows with in October following the release of the album.
[8][9] "Pretty Savage" is a trap song with "haunted vocals and a skittish, staccato-style beat", those lyrics are a "collective middle finger to the haters".
[13] Callie Ahlgrim from Insider called "Pretty Savage" a "straight shot of adrenaline" and noted that the lyrics "Yeah, we some bitches you can't manage" are an "ace-in-the-hole".
[10] In a more negative review, Mikael Wood for the Los Angeles Times described the song, alongside "How You Like That", as "two vaguely phrased declarations of fierce self-determination".
[16] South Korean boy band iKon performed a remake of the song entitled "Classy Savage" with a guest appearance by Lisa in the 2021 Mnet competition show Kingdom: Legendary War.
"Pretty Savage" is featured in the soundtrack of the 2021 Brazilian telenovela Quanto Mais Vida, Melhor!, which was broadcast beginning in November 2021.