Saving All My Love for You Kelley L. Carter of MTV also listed the track on their "Whitney Houston's Top 10 Songs", complimenting the singer for taking an already-recorded song and giving it new life." 'On "The New York Daily News"'s "The 100 Greatest Love Songs", "Saving All My Love for You" was placed at number 79. The song was also on "The Telegraph",s "The 50 Best Love Songs of the 80's", with the authors wrote that, "The song that launched Whitney, invented a newly minted variety of globe-storming soul diva", picking the line, "Though I try to resist, being last on your list/But no other
If You Had My Love of the summer of 1999, adding: "This song was the jam you and your gal pals practiced your back up dancer routines with. Admit it." "Rolling Stone" included the song on a list of the "20 Biggest Songs of the Summer" from the 1990s. In 2012, Lewis Corner of "Digital Spy" described "If You Had My Love" as an "R&B classic", which serves as "a firm reminder of her fiercely independent but hopeless romantic nature, which seems to reflect her colourful personal life." Rapper T-Pain stated that it was the Darkchild remix of "If You Had My Love", which he