 Among initial reviews of the single , the NME 's Derek Johnson confessed to being both fascinated and confused by " Strawberry Fields Forever " , writing : " Certainly the most unusual and way @-@ out single The Beatles have yet produced – both in lyrical content and scoring . Quite honestly , I don 't really know what to make of it . " Time magazine hailed the song as " the latest sample of the Beatles ' astonishing inventiveness " . 
