Slant Magazine particularly lauded the song within its review, saying ""All Too Well" is arguably the finest song in Swift's entire catalogue: The arrangement slowly crescendos from coffeehouse folk to arena rock as Swift adds new details from a doomed relationship, until she unleashes one of her best-ever lines ("You call me up again just to break me like a promise/So casually cruel in the name of being honest") and the song explodes into a full-on bloodletting.
Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine called "Heavy Metal Lover" an anthem for "the typically flouted watersports-enthusiast community".
Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine criticized "Tik Tik Boom", writing that it is "by far Britney Jean and company's most egregious lapse in judgment".
Slant Magazine lamented, "There's no trace of Coheed's oddball eclecticism here, or of their dynamic pop sensibilities; instead the emotionally and tonally monochrome Black Rainbow gives the impression of a typically humorless metal act."
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Slant Magazine critic Jonathan Keefe also gave the single a mixed-to-positive review, praising the song's "awareness of pop songcraft and structure" and its "inventive production" for drawing favorable comparisons to the work of Big & Rich, Little Big Town, Taylor Swift, and pop producer Mark Ronson, but noting that Bundy "overdoes her vocal performance" and questioning whether the performance is played for sincerity or for camp.