>"Riptide" is an indie folk, folk-pop, twee pop, and indie pop song. Musically, the sheet music for the song shows that it is in the key of D♭ major with a tempo of 100 beats per minute. Hannah Gilchrist of the Red Magazine says "...it feels like you should be sitting on a California beach drinking a bottle of beer while your friends frolic in the waves – no surprise it's inspired by the tracks of the 70s."
