"Sal Cinquemani for Slant Magazine noted that the songs which did not work well on the album were the ones where Carey performs a song in the "style of her successors", such as Usher by way of Jermaine Dupri on "Shake It Off", Twista via The Legendary Traxster on "One and Only", and The Neptunes on "To the Floor".However, Cinquemani praised Carey for "channeling a predecessor" instead of one of her successors, such as channeling Prince on "Mine Again" and "Joy Ride", describing the outcome "sublime".