The title references the decision by Atlantic Records to drop him from the label after the commercial failure of his only major-label album, 1994's Fun.

[3] A 7-inch limited edition EP called Dream Scream, featuring that song and "Funeral Girl", was released in 1998 on Pickled Egg Records.

Beattie and Johnston submitted a number of tracks to Atlantic Records as material for a potential album, but were dropped by the label instead.

[5] A June 1999 performance at Radio Fritz, Germany,[5] became Johnston's first professionally recorded live album, Why Me?.

In April of 1999, Johnston recorded and self-released the Danny And The Nightmares album, co-written with Jason Lee Damron.