some Pharrell production... and you have one of the smoothest pieces of filth of the year." Ryan Dennehy from AbsolutePunk found "trademark" Timbaland production in "Blow" and opined, "Bey[oncé] wisely co-opts Timbaland himself to deliver a steamy hook that interlocks with her own vocals." Cosmopolitan writer Alex Rees deemed "Blow" an "awesome disco moment". Carrie Battan of the website Pitchfork described the song's innuendo as "bawdy and overblown" but praised the singer for being sincere. She concluded, "Monogamy has never sounded more seductive or less retrograde as when dictated on Beyoncé's terms." Janice Llamoca of the website HipHopDX found "straight-to-the-point raunchiness" in the song. Philip Matusavage from the website musicOMH noted that the lyrics of the song sounded "more saucy than salacious". Ryan B. Patrick of Exclaim! felt that the text of the song "lays the sex kitten shtick a bit thick". He further described it as a "weird '80s Prince/Vanity 6 roller-skating throwback". Una Mullally from The Irish Times gave a mixed review for "Blow", saying that the album "falls off a little" with the song. Similarly, Stereogum Tom Breihan criticized Timbaland's vocals featured in the song. In the annual Pazz and Jop mass critics poll of the year's best in music in 2013, "Blow" was ranked at number 228. Commercial performance Despite no single release, "Blow" debuted at number 48 on Billboards US Dance Club Songs chart in the US for the week ending February 8, 2014. After seven weeks of ascending the chart, the track went on to top the chart for the week ending March 22, 2014 after its position at number two the previous week. Promotional remixes by Dirty Pop, CJay Swayne and Romeo Blanco helped the song top the chart. This gave Beyoncé her 19th number-one single on the chart and tied her with Janet Jackson for third on the all-time list. At the end of 2014, it was placed at number 23 on the Billboard year-end chart. "Blow" also debuted at 118 on South Korea's international South Korea's international Gaon Music Chart, for the week ending December 22, 2013; that position also became its peak. Music video Background and synopsis The music video for "Blow" was directed by Hype Williams and produced by Tony McGarry. It was filmed in September 2013 at the roller skating rink Fun Plex in Houston, Texas which the singer frequently visited during her childhood. Beyoncé described the filming