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The Beatles. Apple Corps Ltd. 7243-8-34445-2-6. Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Abbey Road Studio Session Notes 1962-1970. Great Britain: Hamlyn. ISBN 0-600-55784-7. Unterberger, Ritchie (2006). The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-892-3.
A music video followed. [6] "W.I.T.C.H." is an acronym for "Woman In Total Control (of) Herself". [6] Cole described the song as reclaiming "the witch as a symbol of women's resistance. It celebrates women's strength, autonomy, and rebellion". [1] The song was written by Nelson, Cole and Alexandra Soumalias, and produced by Nelson. [5]
In Womack's description, in the sequence for the song, the Beatles "vanquish the evil Blue Meanies and celebrate as the colorful beauty of friendship and music have been restored to Pepperland". [ 91 ] [ nb 9 ] Author George Case describes the same victory scene as "a psychotropic cartoon dreamscape" and an example of the Beatles' more overt ...
Beatles biographer Bob Spitz said the song is "restlessly dark and moody", and compared it to the Shirelles' "Baby It's You" (a song the Beatles previously covered) and early Drifters recordings. [10] It was one of three songs Lennon was the principal writer for on With the Beatles, with "It Won't Be Long" [11] and "Not a Second Time". [12]
Robert Palmer covered the song on his 1980 album Clues, adding a second verse featuring new lyrics not in the Beatles version. It was released as a single in 1981 and, although it did not enter the UK Singles Chart, reached number 79 on the Record Business Singles Top 100 chart.
In 1999, Atom and His Package covered the song on the album Making Love (with altered lyrics) as "P.P. (Doo-Doo)". When Mojo released Abbey Road Now! in 2009, as part of the magazine's series of CDs of Beatles albums covered track-by-track by modern artists, "Polythene Pam" was covered by Cornershop alongside "Mean Mr. Mustard". [16]
The unusual chord progression is an example of the Beatles' use of chords for added harmonic expression, [28] a device that Harrison adopted from Lennon's approach to melody. [29] Musicologist Walter Everett describes the composition as "a tour de force of altered scale degrees". He adds that, such is the ambiguity throughout, "its tonal ...
The song is played in two chords and has since been compared to "I Am the Walrus" and "I've Got a Feeling" for the similarities in the song's lyrics and structure. A riff from the song was integrated into the Plastic Ono Band song "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)", which was released later in 1969. [1]