In the decades following its release, Beatles biographers and music journalists have similarly criticised the lyrics as naive and simplistic and detected a smugness in the message; the song's musical content has also been dismissed as unimaginative.
Beatles biographers and music journalists have similarly criticised the lyrics as naive and simplistic. This was in the decades following its release. Beatles biographers and music journalists detected a smugness in the message. This was in the decades following its release. The song's musical content has also been dismissed as unimaginative.