In May 1992, "Wrong" was serviced to album-oriented rock radio stations; a music video was also created to coincide with the release of the single.
[1] In the song's music video, Buckingham engages in a series of guitar duels with doppelgängers emerging from a mirror.
[3] Buckingham was surprised that the record company picked "Wrong" as the album's first single; he wanted "Don't Look Down" to fulfill that role instead.
[8] Jean Rosenbluth of the Los Angeles Times seconded this analysis and wrote that "the vitriol in 'Wrong' about the business of being a rock star, comes through best in the vocals".
[1] In a retrospective analysis of Out of the Cradle, Michael Roberts of Westword identified "Wrong" as one of the few unreserved songs on the album and labeled it as a "biting music-biz exorcism".