"It's kind of embarrassing," says Taylor Henderson, violinist with teen sensations Operator Please, as she recalls the Australian release of the Queensland band's breakthrough single, "Just a Song About Ping Pong."
"All the promo we were asked to do was about 'playing ping-pong with Operator Please,' and we were so bad at it."
Blasting into clubs worldwide with this punky, spunky calling card, a fiery 2-minute slice of laser-sighted riffing and apoplectic rhythm, the band have created their own albatross: It's not a good idea to sing about a sport at which you suck. And while Henderson insists the song is "as two-dimensional as it sounds," the Australian media apparently had a field day digging for deeper meanings, suggesting that the song contained a subliminal political statement about Australia's relations with China, and other such nonsense.