Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song five out of five stars, stating, ". Barbra Streisand herself is not present in the music video, but it features her impersonator, Gayle Robbins. The music video is set in New York City and it features many prominent and affiliated artists making cameo appearances, such as Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, André 3000, Ryan Leslie, Buckshot, Smif-n-Wessun, DJ Premier, Todd Terry, Chromeo, DJ Mehdi, So Me (who also directed the video), Diplo, Questlove, Ezra Koenig, Santigold, Yelawolf, The Roots and Fafi and The Fat Jew of Team Facelift. For the "Barbra Streisand" cover, Streisand and Gibb's faces are digitally removed and replaced with duck beaks. The single's album artwork is modelled directly after Streisand's own 1980 album, Guilty, which features a picture of her and Barry Gibb on the sleeve. The sample replay of "Gotta Go Home" was produced by Mark Summers at SCORCCiO Sample Replays. The song, named after the American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, extensively uses a sample replay of German disco group Boney M.'s 1979 international hit single " Gotta Go Home", which in turn borrows content from the 1973 German song "Hallo Bimmelbahn" by the band' Nighttrain (the brothers Heinz and Jürgen Huth and Michael Holm the hookline was written only by Heinz Huth).