Edited sentence: "Delicate" received universal acclaim from music critics.Billboard listed the song as the 35th best song of 2018 on their list of 100 Best Songs of 2018.In 2018, Rolling Stone named it the 12th best song of 2018 stating that "Taylor turns her late-night booty-call whispers into an obsessive synth-pop gem — the kind of masterpiece that just gets more and more resonant in heavy rotation.Slant named it the 9th best single of 2018 on their list of the 25 Best Singles of 2018