An accompanying music video directed by Aerin Moreno premiered on the same date; it sees McRae and a group of dancers performing in a room with fifteen doors.
[12] The track ends frantically, with McRae pleading, "I'm supposed to be an adult, but fuck it, I need a minute," which Sam Franzini of The Line of Best Fit interpreted as "the realization part of the healing".
[6] In a ranking of the tracks from So Close to What, Billboard's Lyndsey Havens placed "Revolving Door" at number four and praised McRae's vocal performance, which she called a standout on the album.
The critic described the chorus as a "anxious heartbeat",[14] which Clare Martin of Paste compared it to a "musical edging", citing a "fast beat that builds to a whole lot of nothing".
[17] The video starts with McRae entering a white room and the direction focuses on her flexibility; Aaron Williams of Uproxx said that it prepared him for body horror from the film The Substance (2024), although he found it the only parallel.
[18] It follows McRae and a group of dancers in all-white outfits performing in a room with fifteen doors; each one represents a different track from So Close to What, according to the singer.