Since its release on Xscape, "A Place with No Name" has received mixed to positive reviews. Joe Levy from Billboard called the song the "centerpiece" of the album.[17] Nekesa Mumbi Moody from Yahoo! said "A Place With No Name" "has the same beat and sound as 'Leave Me Alone' from the 'Bad' era and is lyrically weak: we can tell why Jackson left it on the cutting room floor.
Since its release on Xscape, "A Place with No Name" has received mixed to positive reviews. Joe Levy from Billboard called the song the "centerpiece" of the album.[17] Nekesa Mumbi Moody from Yahoo! said "A Place With No Name" "has the same beat and sound as 'Leave Me Alone' from the 'Bad' era and is lyrically weak: we can tell why Jackson left it on the cutting room floor.