Release and Response
"Ugly" was released as a CD single in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2005, containing the album version and a B-side titled "Come Together". The digital version of the single, released on 5 December 2005 in the UK, features the radio edit of the song, and "Come Together". The extended play version of "Ugly" was released on the same day and contains the album version of the song, a B-side titled "Future Shokk!", a Desert Eagle Discs remix, and a Suga Shaker Vocal Mix. On 9 December 2005, "Ugly" was released as a CD single in Germany, which contains the same tracks on the extened play release, in addition to the single's music video.
"Ugly" garnered generally positive reviews from music critics. Phil Udell of Hot Press regarded it as a "classy, catchy pop tune with a human heart". Peter Robinson of The Observer felt that the track was one of the album's standouts, stating that it "immediately hits on the Sugababes' core values", which according to him are "cool, but so unswervingly radio-friendly that it would hardly be out of place as this year's Children in Need single". Talia Kraines of BBC described "Ugly" as a "ballad full of true Sugababes attitude". K. Ross Hoffman of Allmusic considered the track as an "aptly pitched inspirational mini-epic", and a writer for The Liverpool Daily Post & Echo characterised it as an "empowering anthem". Nick Southall of Stylus Magazine called it "vastly superior self-help pop" and "lovingly produced". However, Ben Hogwood of musicOMH thought the song was unconvincing, while Alex Roginski of Sydney Morning Herald criticized the songwriting as "flat".
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