In 2017, Billboard ranked "Ribs" at number 12 on their list of the 100 Best Deep Cuts by 21st Century Pop Stars. Since its release, the song has appeared in several critics' lists. Club called "Ribs" the "best illustration of gift," while Jon Hadusek of Consequence of Sound placed it as one of the album's essential tracks in his review.
Sawdey also compared the "steady club beat" that plays "underneath her words" to that of a heartbeat. Evan Sawdey of PopMatters called it one of the album's highlights, with the lyrics describing a "specific mood and atmosphere". While the publication praised its "dark and cold" chorus, it was also critical of the "same stacked vocals, hypnotic percussion, and synthesized production" that made the track repetitive.
Pretty Much Amazing wrote a mixed review of "Ribs", describing it as a song with "slower, driving beats" that go nowhere. Lindsay Zoladz of Pitchfork opined that "Ribs" was the best song Lorde had written so far. Mike Wass of Idolator praised the song's "vulnerability" and called it an "obtuse offering". "Ribs" received favorable reviews from music critics on its release. Lorde performed "Ribs" at the Coachella Valley Music Festival and other festivals in 2017, and on her debut Pure Heroine Tour (2013–2014) while a reworked version of the song was performed during the North American leg of her Melodrama World Tour (2017–2018). Canadian producer Ryan Hemsworth remixed the track and released it under the subtitle "Let's Have a Sleepover Version". On 26 November 2013, Lorde performed the song on the Late Show with David Letterman, backed by a drummer and a keyboard player. On 24 September 2013, she performed the track at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, California, and at a concert at the Warsaw in Brooklyn on 3 October 2013 along with other material from her album Pure Heroine.
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She also performed the song during a free concert on 7 September 2013 at the 5000 seat Vector Arena. Lorde first performed "Ribs" and "400 Lux" at the Greenwich Village club Le Poisson Rouge. Consequence of Sound noted how Lorde's minimal production allowed her to sing in any melody, layering them over one another to create a choral effect. "Ribs" is a deep house-influenced electronica and electropop song, which starts ambiently and, according to Jason Lipshutz of Billboard, features an "exhausted-sounding Lorde growing more frantic with each passing second," with lyrics that include the singer discovering her maturity and "grown-up problems." In "Ribs", she references Canadian indie rock band Broken Social Scene's 2002 song " Lover's Spit". Lorde's vocals span a range of B 2 to G ♯ 5 and its chord progression follows a sequence of A–E–F ♯m 7–C ♯m 7. "Ribs" is composed in the key of E major with a tempo of 128 beats per minute. "Ribs" was written on the day of the January 2013 Auckland Laneway Festival. Lorde said ageing, which she described as "a big stress" of hers, and "this big party I had when my parents went away" inspired her. Problems playing this file? See media help. A 25-second sample of "Ribs", a deep house-influenced electronica and electropop song.
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