[2] Author Tim Riley suggests that in the song, McCartney is inviting "his audience to have a laugh on him," as Elvis Presley had sometimes done.

The nice payoff now is that a lot of the people I meet who are at the age where they've just got a couple of kids and have grown up a bit, settling down, they'll say to me, "I thought you were really soppy for years, but I get it now!

[6] "Silly Love Songs" was released in the US on 1 April 1976[7] and spent five non-consecutive weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

[11] Billboard listed "Silly Love Songs" as Paul McCartney's all-time biggest Hot 100 single.

AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the song, as well as its follow-up single, "Let 'Em In", as "so lightweight that their lack of substance seems nearly defiant".

[20] Record World said that "all the ingredients of a sure chart-topper are wrapped up in this delightful, fast moving number" with "awesome hooks.

"[21] John Bergstrom of PopMatters called the song "an exemplary piece of mid-‘70s pop production and a pure pleasure".

In 1984, three years after the dissolution of Wings, Paul McCartney re-recorded "Silly Love Songs" for the soundtrack to the motion picture Give My Regards to Broad Street.

[43] "Silly Love Songs" logged 17 weeks on the New Zealand chart in total and was certified gold for selling over 5,000 copies.