 "Some Girls" received positive reviews from music critics.PopMatters included it in its "Best Music of 2004" selection, where Adrien Begrand commented that "Stevens might have no singing voice to speak of, but did she ever score a slice of pop genius with her single 'Some Girls', on which the ever-crafty Richard X brazenly hijacks a contagious German schaffel beat and tarts it up with a killer hook in the chorus that never, ever leaves your head".In his review for "The Guardian", Alexis Petridis referred to the song as "remarkable" for turning Stevens' detached vocal delivery into a strength.