"while up to the standard of anything mariah had ever done before, [they] suffered in comparison. but even here you could hear the new mariah in the spareness of the arrangements and the way it was her voice, rather than any instrument, that controlled the song. she'd grown to the point where having less behind her really proved to be more, for the song and for her. it was notable, too, that like the other ballads on the record, these two leaned very much towards r&b."