"Rolling Stone" writer Daniel Kreps compared the party in the video to the 1999 film "Eyes Wide Shut" and added that "this may be the first Spears video ever crafted strictly with the morally-lax Internet in mind, a brazen clip that doesn't have to tone down its explicit nature lyrically and visually in order to get airplay".Leah Greenblatt of "Entertainment Weekly" said, "it's kind of difficult to believe the song's real meaning will get past even the thickest listener, the video itself is pretty tame...almost disappointingly so".