 In 2003, "Q" magazine ranked "Caught Out There" at number 649 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever".In 2010, "Pitchfork" named it the 161st-best track of the 1990s.They wrote, "Soundtracking this post-breakup mania is a top-rate, ahead-of-its-time Neptunes production, with snapping keyboards accompanied by high-pitched tones that sound like dynamite exploding in space.