James28
04-11-2022, 01:56 PM
"Please Mr. Please", by Olivia Newton-John, is about a woman trying to get over a just-broken relationship who is begging a "button-pushin' cowboy" at a tavern not to play "B-17" because it triggers bad memories of that relationship of hers to the point that she never wants to hear that undesirable song again.
There can be situations where a classic-hits station makes a song's rotation too heavy to the point of omnipresence and/or annoyance, and a listener of that station would flip-out to the point of getting in trouble at, say, his/her workplace. That would be enough for that listener to never want to hear that song again for the rest of his life. I guess anyone who ever got in trouble for changing a radio station just to avoid listening to undesirable songs can relate to the protagonist of "Please Mr. Please". Such annoying/omnipresent songs on those stations would be thought of as "B-17"s.
There can be situations where a classic-hits station makes a song's rotation too heavy to the point of omnipresence and/or annoyance, and a listener of that station would flip-out to the point of getting in trouble at, say, his/her workplace. That would be enough for that listener to never want to hear that song again for the rest of his life. I guess anyone who ever got in trouble for changing a radio station just to avoid listening to undesirable songs can relate to the protagonist of "Please Mr. Please". Such annoying/omnipresent songs on those stations would be thought of as "B-17"s.