Nigel Messenger of Phase9 called the single: "an excellent, heavy track with a pounding beat saturated with the sexy tones of lead singer KatieJane Garside."[2]Rock Feedback said of the single: "Snarly riffs and the sound of a girl in desperation, panting away like an exhausted farmyard animal, marks "Pretty Like Drugs," the shockingly post-glam stomper new single from Queen Adreena."[3]