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 where everything is under observation." The authors also noted that the video foreshadowed "the reality as it was viewable" through the YouTube phenomenon. Justin Myers of the Official Charts Company said that the "reality TV-inspired video" which predated the UK version of "Big Brother" in fact resembled the first series, calling this "J-Lo's #impact". Fuse.tv included "If You Had My Love" among Lopez's most iconic music video looks. Monica Castillo of "Cosmopolitan" called Lopez's outfit "inexplicably sexy", while "Latina" magazine writer Nichole Fratangelo said she "looked angelic in white but of course, she gave it a naughty twist." Gaby Wilson