Lopetegui commented that "Viviras Selena" was the "weakest track" of the album and that "Is It the Beat?"

Rolling Stone commented negatively on the song, saying that it is one of the weakest tracks on the album, along the other single "We Made You".

It has been described as a paean to free love, but the song is generally viewed by critics and biographers as the weakest track on the album.

Zahn describes "We All Fall" as the album's weakest track.

His choice was to be "Don't You Want Me", a track Oakey considered to be a filler and the weakest track on the album.

Oakey hated the new version and thought it the weakest track on Dare, resulting in one of his infamous rows with Rushent.

"It's always one of our weakest tracks," said Kenseth, who finished 24th in the spring race there after losing his brakes in the final laps and slamming into the wall.

While reviewing MDNA, The New York Times critic Jon Pareles described the song as "one of the album's weakest tracks".

Warner then told the Beach Boys to drop what the company perceived as the weakest track, "We Got Love," and replace it with the Wilson-Parks tune.

He felt that the weakest tracks on the album were those that used real-life instruments, while he named "Snowman" as the strongest.