"Greg Sandow from "Entertainment Weekly" called it a transformation of a Loretta Lynn song" and wrote, "Right at the start, a tortured brass riff tears it from its country roots.And at the end O’Connor dissolves it into an all-but-deranged cry of despair, repeating ”Am I not your girl?” for a full minute and a half, 27 times in all, with the brass shrieking behind her."