 Chip Madinger and Mark Easter say that "Teardrops" was "probably the best of the toe-tappers that George composed for the revised "Somewhere in England"", and they describe its commercial failure as "inexplicable".Ian Inglis calls the song "a perfectly plausible piece of middle-of-the-road pop" that, through its origins as a purpose-written hit song to satisfy commercial considerations, "lacks Harrison's signature".Harrison biographer Simon Leng similarly describes the track as a "perfectly pleasant ... well-produced power pop tune with a catchy hook and an attractive bridge", but he dismisses it as "hack work" and "the kind of forgettable pop fluff that Harrison had been trying to escape for years".