The song eventually transitions into a larger symbol of outrage of underprivileged people "whose anger is a shorthand / For you'll never get a wristband."
Peter Ames Carlin writes, "It is an archetypal Paul Simon move: bridging the personal and the social, the silly with the serious, the frivolous and the absolutely essential.
"But I know plenty of people with this story and there have been times where I've been stopped backstage and asked to [show] a pass.
[3] Simon premiered the song on the National Public Radio series Live from Here with Chris Thile on February 6, 2016.
"[7] Stereogum described the song as "a rhythmic groove that finds Simon spinning a tale of getting locked out of a venue while taking a smoke break into a meditation on the perpetuation of social inequality.