The official music video for the song, lasting four minutes and six seconds, was uploaded to YouTube on March 9, 2010 and was directed by Radical Friend. The video features a shorter edit of the song, lasting three minutes and thirty seconds, compared to the album version which lasts five minutes and twenty-three seconds.[3]
Pitchfork Media listed "O.N.E." as the 28th best song of 2010, stating that "It's always satisfying when a band gets everything right, and "O.N.E." is the sound of Yeasayer hitting all its marks."[4]NME placed "O.N.E" at number 90 on its list of "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".[5] On 26 January 2011, "O.N.E." was voted #30 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2010.[6]