Jackson's breakdown with the "irrepressibly silly Paul McCartney" was "disarmingly goofy", according to "Stylus Magazine". Will Harris of "The A.V. Club" noted the song was "irrepressibly catchy and unabashedly flirtatious". Boubker, the smallest and most irrepressibly buoyant of the boys, temporarily despairs, but recovers. He is described as having a "temperament violent yet refined, restless, irrepressibly investigational". In a review for About.com, Bill Lamb called the song "irrepressibly sunny, but forgettable".