Twentieth Century Fox

This song is about a fashionable, but unfeeling woman. The title is a play on words - it's the name of a popular movie studio, but Jim Morrison's lyrics refer to a girl - "fox" was a popular term for a pretty girl at the time. The movie studio is used to represent the woman in the song, who is glamorous, but artificial. The studio, 20th Century Fox, is one of the Big Six studios. Fox Film Corporation was founded in 1915, while Twentieth Century Pictures was founded in 1933. They merged in 1935 and became "The Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation."

Producer Paul Rothchild had the band walk on wooden planks during the chorus to get the pounding effect.

In 2002, original Doors Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek joined Police drummer Stewart Copeland and Cult singer Ian Astbury to form a new group which they called "21st Century Doors," the name being a takeoff on this song. They were going to start touring in 2002, but had to postpone until 2003 when Copeland broke his arm while biking. Krieger and Manzarek replaced him with drummer Ty Dennis, and Copeland filed a lawsuit claiming they broke an oral agreement to keep him as their drummer. The band was also sued by original drummer John Densmore, and by Jim Morrison's parents, who felt they were misappropriating the Doors name. Krieger and Manzarek eventually changed the name to "Riders On The Storm."