2025

Reviewing the album for The New York Times, Jon Caramanica wrote "Carpenter is best when playful, but not winking. Accordingly, the most effective songs here are the most literal." He cited the song as an instance, stating it "literally descends into lip-biting panting." Mary Chiney of Beats Per Minute wrote "'When Did You Get Hot' anchors the middle stretch with lyrics that could only have been written in 2025: self-aware, plugged into the language of online culture, yet grounded in the timeless confusion of attraction. It's also where you start to see why so many of her song titles read like text messages; they're snapshots of conversations, fragments of thought, punchlines before the joke lands." Nick Levine of NME commented the song was an example in which "she's so gleefully horny that she comes off like a Gen Z version of Blanche from The Golden Girls."

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