text: Blender gụnyere " Akụkọ ịhụnanya" na nọmba 73 na ndepụta njedebe afọ 2008, [39] na ntuli aka The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' debere ya na nọmba 48.[40] Na nyocha enweghị atụ, ọtụtụ ndị nkatọ toro mmepụta ahụ; Sean Daly sitere na St. Petersburg Times, [41] Rob Sheffield si Blender[42] na Stephen Thomas Erlewine sitere na AllMusic họpụtara egwu ahụ dị ka ihe ngosi ọba.[43] Deborah Evans Price nke Billboard toro mmepụta "swirling, dreamy" ma kwuo na Swift nwere ọganihu n'ahịa egwu obodo "nwere ike nweta ume naanị".[38] Ndị ọzọ gụnyere The Boston Globe's James Reed[29] na USA Today's Elysa Gardner lere " Akụkọ ịhụnanya" dịka ọmụmaatụ nke ikike ide abụ Swift mgbe ọ dị obere; Nke ikpeazụ nwere ekele maka abụ ahụ maka ịkọwa mmetụta nke afọ iri na ụma "kama [ịbụ] onye na-ekwuchitere ọnụ maka ụyọkọ echiche mkpokọta ndị agadi na-achọsi ike n'oge uto".[44]