Some of these titles, like Am I the Drama? and Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, include question marks. Others, like Olivia Newton-John’s Have You Never Been Mellow, do not.

In the years that followed, Newton-John became a country star with her third and fifth albums—Let Me Be There (1973) and Have You Never Been Mellow (1975)—topping the Country chart, while facing a ...