"[10] In an interview with journalist Mick Wall shortly after the release of Meat Loaf's 2006 album Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, Steinman stated: "I didn't write [Total Eclipse of the Heart] for anyone but Bonnie."

[25] The music video for "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was directed by Russell Mulcahy[26] and was filmed at the Holloway Sanatorium, a large Victorian Gothic hospital near Virginia Water, Surrey, England.

[27] The surrealist video features Tyler clad in white, dreaming or fantasizing about students in a boys' boarding school.

[28] A long-running urban legend is that the boy who appears throughout the video and who shakes Tyler's hand at the end is former Italian footballer Gianfranco Zola.

Mike DeGagne from AllMusic retrospectively described "Total Eclipse of the Heart" as "one of the finest ballads ever to hit radio."

He noted the "lush instrumentation" and said that Tyler's voice "produced the perfect type of 'desperate lovelorn' effect to suit the romantic lyrics."

"[36] Donald A. Guarisco, also from AllMusic, retrospectively reviewed Faster Than the Speed of Night and noted the song as an "epic ballad", describing the whole album as "rock at its most melodramatic.

"[37] Jim Beviglia from American Songwriter said that Tyler's raspy vocals helped to legitimize the "melodrama inherent in the lyrics," and described the song as a "garment-rending, chest-beating [and] emotionally exhausting ballad" that suits the throes of a turbulent relationship.

In January 2007, Tyler released another version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in collaboration with British punk-electronic group BabyPinkStar.

In 2021, Tyler released a classical-dance version of the song on Classical 80s Dance, an album by German producer Alex Christensen and the Berlin Orchestra.

[113] English singer Nicki French released a hi-NRG remake of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in October 1994 that was also a worldwide hit.

"[118] The singer had been performing in London bands since the age of 12 and was given the chance to record a version when she received a phone call from a fellow British musician.

[122] The song's accompanying music video features French performing on a stage, in front of a giant, circular "moon" that occasionally draws up to eclipse itself.

[124] AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine remarked that French "had a unexpected hit single with her dance-club, house-inflected cover" of "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

"[125] Larry Flick from Billboard stated that the singer "does a fair imitation of Bonnie Tyler on this bouncy hi-NRG/disco interpretation of the bombastic power ballad.

[127] Steve Baltin from Cash Box felt that in the new version, "only the radio edit retains the syrupy feel that made Tyler’s song such a smash.

"[128] Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report named it Record To Watch, writing, "The song that never dies gets a '90s facelift and a tempo injection.

[130] In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton said that it "suffers from the inevitable dance beat tacked on and also the lack of Jim Steinman's bombastic production that made the track such an epic in the first place.

"[131] Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented that "away is the sandpaper vocal of Bonny Tyler [sic], the edge now comes from the dance context put into the ballad.

The release date for "Si demain... (Turn Around)" was brought forward by three weeks due to unprecendented demand after the track received pre-release radio airplay.

[177] Music charts analyst Elia Habib noted that "Si demain... (Turn Around)" is the first bilingual chart-topping single since "7 Seconds" by Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry in 1994.

[209] On 30 March 2004, on the Worldbest competition which brings together winners of various broadcasts of Star Academy, the two finalists, Wilfred Le Bouthillier and Marie-Élaine Thibert, performed "Si demain... (Turn Around)",[210] gaining the second place.

[213] Le Bouthillier and Thibert's version was in turn covered by K4T and Luc St-Pierre on the Canadian TV show Heure de Gloire.

[216] Cuban-American singer Lissette covered the song in Spanish as "Eclipse Total del Amor" in 1984, from her album Caricatura, being her best hit in the Latin American charts.

[219] Mexican singer Yuridia covered the song in Spanish as "Eclipse Total del Amor" from her second studio album Habla El Corazón in 2006.

[226] The hit musical comedy-drama series Glee reworked the song for its season one episode "Bad Reputation," recorded by cast members Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Mark Salling, and special guest star Jonathan Groff as their characters Rachel Berry, Finn Hudson, Noah Puckerman, and Jesse St. James respectively.

[233] On October 27, 2023, Doro Pesch released a cover featuring Rob Halford of Judas Priest from her album Conqueress – Forever Strong And Proud.

[236] In 2010, Tyler appeared in an advertisement for MasterCard, performing a short parody of the song with its noted new lyric "Turn around, Neville.

[239] The Marsh Family, a couple with four children in Faversham, Kent, produced a parody titled "Totally Fixed Where We Are" expressing the feelings of people under a third lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, which went viral in February 2021.

[240][241] In 2019, in the Canta Uma Para Mim segment on Brazilian television program Alerta Amazonas, the song was performed by contestant Priscila Munhoes, who did not know how to speak English, and instead substituted her own "gibberish" lyrics.