 A reviewer for Billboard noted that the song " seems to toss her back to her Disney days " . They concluded that : " Pop music is always appreciated , but this is a kiddie anthem , plain and simple [ ... ] it is hardly a contender for contemporary radio " . Bill Lamb of About.com found the song , along with " Break My Heart " , to be " disappointing cookie cutter copies " of Avril Lavigne 's " Sk8er Boi " . He stated that although the songs are " easy to listen " , they " break no new ground " . Gabriel Leong of MTV Asia stated that " Beat of My Heart " sounds " very much like " songs that Debbie Gibson , Tiffany and Bananarama would have recorded in 1980s , a direction that suits Duff " much better than the whole budding rock chick image she 's been trying out . We don 't want a squabble with Ashlee [ Simpson ] now , do we Hil ? " 
