Critical reception
"Vroom Vroom" received generally positive reviews from music critics. Reviewing the song's preview on Beats 1, James Rettig of Stereogum called it "perfect", writing that he had been listening to a bootleg live recording of the song prior to its official debut. He additionally praised Sophie's production on the track, calling it "top-notch" and rivaling her then-short career. [5] PopCrush 's Christopher Tirri called the song's beat drop "strange (in the best way possible)", lauding how its sound effects are "all strung together with a club-ready, elastic bass line that makes the onomatopoeias actually sound appealing instead of just silly." [6] Writing for Tiny Mix Tapes , S. David lauded it as "a near-masterpiece", calling it "a post-'Material Girl' hymn to independence, financial or otherwise: a desire for personal freedom". [7]
Calling it one of Sophie's most essential tracks, Jared Richards of Junkee wrote: "Frenzied, aggressive, and utterly hedonistic, title track 'Vroom Vroom' takes you along for a ride, shifting gears repeatedly but never stalling. There’s a lot going on here — so many bridges, buildups, breakdowns for a three-minute track — and it demands you jump around and get ridiculous." [8] In a ranking by the same publication, they named it Charli XCX's best song, opining that "[w]hile Charli will never stop growing, 'Vroom Vroom' will always be the song that made her one of the most buzzed-about artists of the decade, so we can either hop in or eat her purple, glittery dust." [9]
In an infamous review for Pitchfork , Laura Snapes wrote that the song "sounds like a rickety clown car whose horn toots Missy [Elliott]'s 'The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)'—a blocky, disjointed paean to fast rides and good times." [10] [11]
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