[3] Before the song begins on the album there is spoken dialogue in which Ono refers to the "male chauvinist pig engineer" and Lennon responds "right on, sister".

[6] Music critic Johnny Rogan calls the melody "trite" and Ono's lead vocal "uncertain", but claims that it is clear that Lennon is enjoying himself "playing rock 'n' roll guitar".

[5] Rogan compares Ono's vocal performance to an "out of tune version of an early Sixties girl group vocalist".

[5] Bielen and Urish praise Elephant's Memory's playing as "spry", noting particularly the way the middle eight builds momentum.

[3] Blaney also infers Lennon's influence on her writing in that it represents a move away from avant-garde songs she had been writing in the past to more conventional rock songs that she included on Some Time in New York City and her follow-up album Approximately Infinite Universe.

[7] The couple performed the song, along with three other songs that would appear on Some Time in New York City – "Attica State", "The Luck of the Irish" and "John Sinclair" – at a rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan supporting freeing John Sinclair from prison on December 10, 1971.

[7][8] This was the same episode in which Lennon and Ono later joined Chuck Berry in performances of "Memphis, Tennessee" and "Johnny B.

[9] AllMusic critic Thom Jurek describes this version as "bass-throbbing bomb electronic funk with horn loops and backing choruses".