 "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)" received mixed reviews from music critics. Brian Hiatt of Rolling Stone noted "the album de-emphasizes the (very) guilty pop pleasures of her 2004 debut in favor of leaden I-hate-you-Daddy laments such as" Confessions of a Broken Heart "and" My Innocence ". Entertainment Weekly writer Leah Greenblatt commented that" it's hard to imagine a more explicit snapshot of the highly publicized family problems that have plagued the star than "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)" ". PopMatters's Whitney Strub said" Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father) "" immediately commences with a line about 'wait [ing] for the postman to bring me a letter', which suggests songwriters dipping into the well of cliché without worrying about freshness, "while commenting that" the world might not need another version of Britney Spears'' E-Mail My Heart ', but good lord, that song came out in 1999. Perhaps a text-message might arrive faster than snail-mail in late 2005, should Lohan's song-persona deign to enter the 21st century ".
