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[[File:Nicki Minaj - Live Femme Fatale 7.jpg|thumb|left|140px|[[Nicki Minaj]] was featured on the official remix of "Tonight I'm Getting Over You".]]
"Tonight I'm Getting Over You" received mostly positive reviews from [[music critics]]. Jessica Sager of Pop Crush wrote that, if released as a single, the song would likely become a "club staple".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://popcrush.com/carly-rae-jepsen-kiss-album-review/|title=Carly Rae Jepsen - Kiss - Album Review|last=Sager|first=Jessica|date=September 14, 2012|access-date=February 13, 2013|publisher=Pop Crush}}</ref> ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' Sam Lansky of Idolator praised the chorus, where he noted the song's transformation from "a '[[Give Your Heart Aa Break]]'-esque Top 40 lollipop into a noisy, crunchy rave-a-thon."<ref name=idol/> Melinda Newman of [[Hitfix]] thought "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" was as risque as Jepsen's previous single, "[[This Kiss (Carly Rae Jepsen song)|This Kiss]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hitfix.com/news/album-review-carly-rae-jepsens-kiss-smacks-of-sweet-pop-romance#7lZI8ERyJIiwj4bf.99|title=Album Review: Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Kiss' smacks of sweet, pop romance|date=September 18, 2012|access-date=February 13, 2013|work=[[Hitfix]]|last=Newman|first=Melinda}}</ref> Adam Markovitz of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' selected "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" and "[[Call Me Maybe]]" as the best songs on ''Kiss''.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2012/09/19/kiss-review-carly-rae-jepsen/|title=Kiss - review - Carly Rae Jepsen|last=Markovitz|first=Adam|date=September 18, 2012|access-date=February 13, 2013|publisher=[[Time Warner]]|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> A negative review came from Carolline Sullivan of ''[[The Guardian]]'', who wrote that "set against Dallas Austin and Max Martin's overprocessed beats, [the singer] can't help but fail, as Canadian Idol would put it, to 'own' the songs."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/20/carly-rae-jepsen-kiss-review|title=Carly Rae Jepsen: Kiss – review|date=September 20, 2012|access-date=February 13, 2013|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> ''Candy'' wrote that while the theme of Jepsen's new single changed with "Tonight I'm Getting Over You", the upbeat tempo remains, making the track a ''bona fide'' party anthem.<ref name=candymag/> Music reviewer Sam Lansky noted that the success of "Call Me Maybe" would leave "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" without much mainstream recognition, calling it the "scientifically-engineered-to-be-perfect pop song".<ref name=idol>{{cite web|last=Lanksy|first=Sam|title=Carly Rae Jepsen's "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" Video: Watch Her Get Over (And Under) A Hot Dude|url=http://idolator.com/7442990/carly-rae-jepsen-tonight-im-getting-over-you-video|work=[[Idolator (website)|Idolator]]|publisher=[[Buzz Media]]|access-date=April 3, 2013|date=February 22, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.mdtoday/urzCx20130411025423/http://idolator.com/7442990/carly-rae-jepsen-tonight-im-getting-over-you-video |archive-date=April 11, 2013}}</ref> Commenting on the Nicki Minaj remix, Jeff Benjamin of [[Fuse (TV channel)|Fuse]] said that while the rapper's addition was silly, it had the potential to rescue Jepsen from becoming a [[one-hit wonder]].<ref name=fuseremix/>
