yes, it is possible to bump a song instead of reviving it (lower right corner of revive warning that comes up). however, I just discovered it is not necessary to listen to the song first? seems like a bug to me.

It's a feature randers. :-)

as in...its supposed to be like that? Why wouldn't you have to listen to a song first to bump it?

I think she was being witty, my man.
Microsoft has a certain notoriety for calling bugs and glitches "features" in releases, etc... whether legitimate or not, it's the running joke.

You used to have to listen to the song, but introduced the warning screen to prevent people from accidently dropping 1000 points. From that point on the functionality has been incorrect. You were also able to bump those songs multiple times during that brief period of time that we were limited to 1 bump per song.