Retrospective reviews have been more negative. Dom Passantino of "Stylus Magazine" rated the single 3/10, saying the song is his "personal pick for the worst production job in musical history, ol' Darkchild took the most unique, epoch-defining, cultural maelstrom of a group he could find, and turned them into a facsimile of Fanmail-era TLC." Tom Ewing of "Freaky Trigger" said the song "shifts and shuffles in a competent, modish way but is not not trying to change any games. Nor, to be fair, are the singers. The first question for any Spice Girl co-writer or producer should be how you accommodate four (or five) very different voices, and give the sense that this is a group, not just women passing a mic around." He also described the intro, in which Jerkins mentions his name, the group's name, the song title and recording date as sounding dated: "Like 'Holler' needed to sound any more 2000."