 Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine noted that " If not for its infectious pre @-@ chorus whistle , ' I Wanna Go ' would be just another song off the Max Martin assembly line " . The Guardian contributor Alexis Petridis gave the song a negative review , and said that although most of tracks of the album are " genuinely exciting [ ... ] there 's certainly some unremarkable stuff on offer , notably ' Seal It With a Kiss ' and ' I Wanna Go . " Evan Sawdey of PopMatters also noted that " I Wanna Go " is the point of the album in which " things stop being fun and start becoming intensely repetitious " , criticizing specifically " [ the ] utterly stupid set of syllables repeated ad nauseam for no reason whatsoever ? [ .. ] the ' ably ' part of ' uncontrollably ' gets recycled far beyond the point where it just sounds stupid . " In September 2011 , " I Wanna Go " topped Rolling Stone 's reader 's poll of The Best Songs of the Summer . 
