Say Say Say waste[d] the rest of the album on bathos and whimsy". The "Los Angeles Times" Paul Grein also reviewed the McCartney album and opined that the singer had redeemed himself with the success of the "spunky" song "but plunged back into wimpdom with 'No More Lonely Nights'". Journalist Whitney Pastorek compared the song to McCartney's 1982 duet with Stevie Wonder, "Ebony and Ivory". She asserted that "Say Say Say" was a better song, and had a better "though slightly more nonsensical" music video, adding that the song had no "heavy-handed social content". Penn State's "The Daily Collegian" described the track as
One-hit wonder from composers who have two or more works that are popular in classical music circles, but have a single work that has become popular outside these circles. The two CDs differ, but the works common to both are: Other examples of classical one-hit wonders are Vittorio Monti's Csárdás, Enrico Toselli's "Serenata 'Rimpianto' Op.6 No.1", popularly known as "Toselli's Serenade", and Jean Paul Egide Martini's Plaisir d'Amour. The term "one-hit wonder" is occasionally applied to other media. In the sports world, there are several athletes known to casual sports fans for one event in their careers. Examples include Paul Henderson, a