 Christopher R. Weingarten of "Rolling Stone" said the album "isn't a massive step forward, but with a constant bombardment of hooks, high energy and incredible harmony there's not much time to catch your breath to compare".While reviewing the album along with Ariana Grande's "Dangerous Woman" (2016), Spencer Kornhaber of "The Atlantic" discussed the tendency to portray one gender's goodness and badness as being tied to promiscuity and material desperation present in pop music, and wrote that "Not That Kinda Girl" is a "rare finger-wagging formulation of a viewpoint otherwise contained in affirmations".In a mixed review, Christoper Bohlsen of"Renowned for Sound" disliked the tropical house genre on the record, saying this musical style "doesn’t suit" Fifth Harmony because they sound "anonymous" singing over "Kygo-styled beats".