 As the band collaborated with longtime R&B producer Babyface, initial reviews of the song and its breach into another genre were mixed.Corey Apar, a writer for Allmusic, was more malignant towards the song, calling it Maroon 5-ish, with "a vocal hook uncomfortably close to Phil Collins' cover of "A Groovy Kind of Love".On the contrary, "Rolling Stone" magazine lauded the song, and IGN approved of the song, assuring long-time fans that they indeed had nothing to fear about the band permanently branching into R&B.