The song was used on MuchMusic's Shortest Weddings special. The video premiered on BET the week ending on October 10, 1999. Finally, as she sings, "Got something for y'all", a gun cock is heard and the video finishes by alluding to her exacting revenge for her former lover's infidelity. Afterwards, Kelis and a group of fed-up women boycott and picket men. In the video, Kelis, in her technicolor spiral afro, blond, gold, orange, red, and fuchsia hair, starts in a confessional style, before opening to the chorus where she rips up the living room. The music video for "Caught Out There" was directed by Hype Williams. No, she wasn't "the first girl to scream on a track", as she claims on 2006's "Bossy", but her debut single, released when she was a 19-year-old with pink eyebrows, not only became a girl-power anthem thanks to its livid hook and indignant lyrics, but helped announced the Neptunes as one of the premier superstar production teams of 21st-century pop music." A reviewer from Sunday Life deemed it as "attentiongrabbing". Stretched out over a spartan backbeat, it would be a cynical swine who would dismiss this titanic slab of breakbeat pop as Jimmy Nail's ' Ain't No Doubt' but, y'know, for girls." Another editor stated that Kelis's "honeyed vocal, which broke into unfiltered madness, was the thing that took this track over the top." Sal Cinquemani from Slant wrote that it "proves why Kelis's legacy should extend beyond simply bringing the boys to the yard. Still, he did her a favour in the end, because 'Caught Out There', with its unforgettable primal-scream refrain, looks set to be massive very soon. Kelis knows the score, though, because on Valentine's Day last year, some no-good, scum-sucking wretch did the dirty on her. Jim Wirth from NME commented, "Men, men, men we're untrustworthy, lying scoundrels at heart, and as this Harlem-based hip-hop soulster rightly points out, we're always at our worst shortly after we've gone through the old 'I love you' routine. Ireland's Evening Herald stated that the song "established her as a leading light on the music scene", while the Irish Independent called it "shouty". Brian Rusnica from The Heights described it as a "five minute explosion of emotion and female rage featuring the raw chorus, "I hate you so much right now!"". Daryl Easlea for the BBC said in his 2012 review that "it still steals the show today, and was one of those songs that was heard everywhere at the time." Swedish newspaper Expressen stated that "over a crunchy beat, she makes up with a lying boyfriend". AllMusic editor Jaime Sunao Ikeda picked it as a "standout" track of the Kaleidoscope album. He added that "Caught Out There" was " only one song could announce Kelis with a bang", when her debut album was launched. Quentin Harrison from Albumism stated that Kelis is "burning with righteous anger" on the song, noting that she is "all heart with a hint of hedonism". Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes said in an interview that the instrumental track was originally meant for rapper Busta Rhymes, who rejected it. It peaked at number 54 on the US Billboard Hot 100 but fared better outside the United States, reaching the top ten in Canada, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Written and produced by The Neptunes, the song was released as the album's lead single in the United States on October 5, 1999. " Caught Out There" is a song recorded by American singer Kelis for her debut studio album Kaleidoscope (1999).
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