Bridge to Paradise

Thoughts on my favorite part of a pop song.

Master of the modern pop bridge.

Hello, yep, Gimme Pleasure is back. If you enjoy this silly newsletter and wouldn’t mind receiving it more than once every ... *checks watch* ... two years, let me know. I might consider doing it more frequently. Oh! This one comes with a playlist too. A mix of some of the best bridges ever recorded: clicky clicky! 

Anyway, on to the ~content~. 

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The other day I read an article that made me wanna throw up. The headline asked: Is TikTok killing off the pop music bridge? TikTok has a long list of problems associated with it: disinformation, geopolitical strife, and the eradication of our global attention span …. It’s also yet to apologize for forcing me to know what a D’amelio is and for ushering in Johnny Depp’s comeback, which no one other than a handful of Canadian incels wanted. But this latest affront is simply—I’m so sorry to do this—a bridge too far.

For the unfamiliar, the bridge is a wholly distinct section of a song, typically pl…