MLB World Series 2014 Date & Predictions: 'Royals' Song Banned in San Francisco During Finals

Two radio stations in California, KFOGRadio and 96.5 KOIT, temporarily banned Lorde's song "Royals" from the airwaves until the end of the World Series.

In a report by Fox4KC.com, employees of the KOIT in San Francisco received numerous requests via social media and email to ban the song by the 19-year-old pop artist Lorde, until the "San Francisco Giants win the World Series."

The two stations obliged and will not be playing the popular hit until the last week of October 2014 when the Giants face the Kansas City Royals. KFOGRadio tweeted, "No offense, Lorde, but for the duration of the World Series, KFOG Radio will be a "Royals"-free zone. We're sure you understand."

Brian Figula, program director of KOIT stated on the station's website, "Our listeners told us to do it, so we did it."

One listener previously wrote to the radio station, "Why are you playing Royals by Lorde still, are you a Royals supporter or Giants?"

Another wrote, "Go Giants! KOIT why are you still playing Royals by Lorde? #gottogo".

How 'Royals' came to be

Lorde shared that a photo of third baseman George Brett signing baseballs in a 1976 issue of National Geographic, inspired her to compose the song, as written on the Huffington Post: "I'd been kind of thinking about writing that song for a while and been pulling together a couple little lines here and there, and I had this image from the National Geographic of this dude signing baseballs. He was a baseball player and his shirt said Royals. I was like, I really like that word, because I'm a big word fetishist. I'll pick a word and I'll pin an idea to that."

Brett returned the favor by sending the artist a signed Royals jersey with the message, "You are Royal to me." The two finally got the chance to meet personally in April 2014.

In a separate Huffington Post report, 99.7 The Point in Kansas City intends to play the chart-topping single once every hour on October 21, 2014, when the Royals play against the Giants. According to the radio station, they will play "Royals" from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on opening day. The Point wrote on their Facebook page, "You might try to stop the #Royals on your airwaves...but we'll just pump 'em up!"

MSN.com reports that baseball fans expect the song to be gone for a long time from San Francisco airwaves if the Royals win the World Series.