Musical director Alex Lacamoire explained that the song originally had a throwback Daft Punk/Pharrell quality, but after viewing a series of Vines with the three actresses improvising on Destiny's Child songs, he reworked the song to give it similar characteristics, then let the sisters add their own harmonies to the tune; he "realized there's nothing in the song as cool as the harmonies the girls do when they're messing around, so we... just let them riff".
[1] The song introduces the three Schuyler sisters: Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy, their different personalities and views, and how they are excited to be in a new age,[2] "amidst the powder keg of the early days of the revolution".
"[4] Pitchfork said the song wouldn't sound out of place in an album by Wyclef protégé City High.
[5] The Guardian said the number "combines TLC with the Andrews Sisters and a hat tip to 'Three Little Maids From School Are We'".
[7] Entertainment Monthly says this song marks the moment when "the album really kicks it into high gear.