Authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter describe the song's lyrics as "clumsy (yet well-intentioned)" and comment that McCartney fully exploited the "'hip' cachet" resulting from the radio ban in his print advertising for the release.
Music critics Chip Madinger and Mark Easter described the song's lyrics as clumsy but well-meaning, noting that Paul McCartney effectively utilized the "cool" image created by the radio ban in his advertising campaign.