What It Feels Like for a Girl "Rock DJ", in which the singer strips his skin off in graphic detail. Miller relegated the banning due to Madonna being a woman "and the idea of a woman taking her aggression out on men is something the network can just not have. That's what is so disturbing. And that really is what it feels like for a girl". Writing for the "San Francisco Chronicle", Neva Chonin accused the video for being a marketing ploy; "Madonna knew [the video] would spark controversy and that MTV would probably ban it. Much fanfare and publicity, more record sales". Nonetheless, she praised it
What It Feels Like for a Girl while panning its remix version for "reduc[ing] the song to a mindless trickle of beats without any hints of the verses". Alex Pappademas from "Spin", pointed out that the song "flaunts the sexiest synth shimmer this side of [Aguilera's] 'Genie in a Bottle'". "The Village Voice"s Phil Dellio found the song to be "the perfect answer record to [the novel] "The Virgin Suicides" (where boys indeed stand on the side of the street looking uncomprehendingly towards girls)". While listing "The 100 Greatest Madonna Songs", Louis Virtel from "The Backlot" ranked "What It Feels Like for a Girl" at number 45,