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 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