The track was originally scheduled for release in December 2000, but it was postponed to avoid competing with songs that would experience sales surges resulting from the Christmas holiday period.

[5] Another reason the track's release was delayed was to avoid the spike in song sales that would occur during the days leading up to Christmas; it would eventually be issued on 1 January 2001.

He further commented of the song: "The sound of the future had arrived in that most cosmic of years, exactly as it might have been imagined by Stanley Kubrick: spacy, disembodied, oddly beautiful.

"[8] He also commented that he did not remember the song from when it was a hit,[8] a point reinforced by Dom Passantio of Stylus Magazine, who called it "easily the most forgotten number one of the decade.

"[1] In 2020, The Guardian ranked the song at number 70 on their list of "The 100 Greatest UK No 1 Singles", with writer Ben Beaumont-Thomas praising the instrumentation and Fox's vocals.