Critical Reception
"Some Girls" received positive reviews from music critics. PopMatters included it in its "Best Music of 2004" selection, where Adrien Begrand commented that "Stevens might have no singing voice to speak of, but did she ever score a slice of pop genius with her single 'Some Girls', on which the ever-crafty Richard X brazenly hijacks a contagious German schaffel beat and tarts it up with a killer hook in the chorus that never, ever leaves your head". In his review for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis referred to the song as "remarkable" for turning Stevens' detached vocal delivery into a strength. Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times stated that Richard X's production allowed Stevens' vocals to " into the icy beat". Ranking "Some Girls" the twentieth best single of 2004, Stylus Magazine's Nick Southall praised the song's chorus for how "that double-enunciation on 'wanna-wanna' was delightfully sexy (in a strictly non-threatening way)" and "the melody breathlessly tried to race past its own ends". Pitchfork Media listed the song twenty-fourth on its "Top 50 Singles of 2004" & #258 on the "Top 500 songs of the 2000s", with Scott Plagenhoef praising its "sharp production" and "Adam Ant-esque 'whoa's".
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