 Sal Cinquemani of "Slant Magazine" criticised Allen for being a "poser who lacks charisma, bites off of everyone else, and is so sickeningly contemptuous of everyone but herself that it makes the pretty, melancholy piano-and-drum-loop ballad 'Littlest Things' seem like a farce".While analysing "Alright, Still", "The Guardian" reviewer, Sophie Heawood, described the lyrics as the "perfect description of missing someone