[3] "After we hooked up with Dirty Hit we sent them [the songs]," Baron-Gracie explained in an interview with NME, "[Healy and Daniel] got in touch and were like, 'Let us just produce ['There's a Honey'] and if you like it or totally hate it you can decide what to do with it.

"[4] When it came time to include "There's a Honey" on the band's debut studio album, My Mind Makes Noises (2018), the members of Pale Waves decided to remix both this song and "Television Romance".

[8] In an article announcing the song's release, Ones to Watch writer Kristin Stahlke wrote that its "heavy lyrics" detailed the possibility of "physical interaction between two people", with the singer doubting their lover's "true motives".

[11] In terms of sound and style, Baron-Gracie has described the song as being "dreamy and dark" like "something you could hear off a movie track", and "a bit [like] shoegaze but pop at the same time".

[15] The music video for "There's a Honey" is performance-based and features the band playing under the cover of a sheet that PromoNews likened to a "dreamlike" playground parachute of "pink and blue hues".

In a four-out-of-five star review, Cécile Howard of The Edge called the song "an enchanting debut" and argued that it was "eerily catchy through its chilling vocals and unique perspective on a crumbling relationship".

[25] Writing for DIY, Will Richards wrote that the band's debut single was "laying down the chorus of the year so far" and that Pale Waves had "set themselves up for extremely big things".

"[28] On 27 November 2017, NME positioned "There's a Honey" at number 22 on their "Tracks of The Year 2017" list, describing the song as having "a bloody brilliant festival-ready chorus".

The magazine further argued that the track has "a juggernaut riff [that] gets things off to a killer start and soon after, Baron-Gracie's heavenly vocals prove to cast an utterly bewitching and unbreakable spell".

[31][32] In the years since its release, "There’s a Honey" has become a staple of Pale Wave's live setlist (Dork magazine has referred to it as "their calling card"),[33] and it is often performed during the band's encore.