Since there's no board for discussion about childrens radio services here, I thought this would be the appropriate place for this question. I don't understand why any childrens service would play this song. Yes it's a hit, and on the surface if you look at the lyrics there's nothing there that would prevent a station targeting children from playing it, but when you start digging deeper, the subject matter is one that I'm not convinced most children understand. There's a line that repeats over and over, "We used to play pretend, give each other different names, we would build a rocket ship and fly to outer space." That's the place where the target audience of these stations is at, so I'm not sure why it's getting airplay on these stations. While I don't claim to be an expert on what makes a hit song, from the first couple times I heard it I knew it would be a hit, not because it was a good song but because it resonates with the CHR audience. I realized all this before I heard the episode of Switched On Pop where they broke this song down, and revealed a much more political message of income inequality that I hadn't picked out before. So, that brings me back to the original question of why childrens radio would be playing this song.