What Kate Does doesn't quite know how to write a woman of action who's also in love … many of the show's Kate flashbacks are just plain silly … there have been a lot of pretty dire Kate episodes." Whitney Matheson of "USA Today" said that she "wanted to stab Kate with a hot poker" after watching "What Kate Does". Josh Holloway's supporting performance as a grieving Sawyer was commended by Carabott of IGN, who said that his acting on the dock as he cried and revealed to Kate that he was going to ask Juliet to marry him was "one of Josh
What It Feels Like for a Girl calling it a "terrific midtempo cut". "Slant"s Sal Cinquemani felt that "Madonna has revealed more of herself than ever [in "Music"]. No longer shrouded with pedantic spirituality, she has become even more human [...] revealing her soul on 'What It Feels Like For A Girl'". However, on his review of "GHV2", Cinquemani felt the track was "largely lost amid the conventional sonics of "Music"s final single" and called it that compilation's least dynamic offering, giving a C– rating. Writing for "Entertainment Weekly", journalist David Browne relegated the track as "an older, wiser 'Into the Groove'", highlighting its "softly padding beat