No Bridge

Fang and I are watching a reality dance show. This is the results show so the producers are dragging out the program in order to flesh out the hour. Various sundry artists are performing in order to flesh out the program. One performer (whose name I don't remember) performed a song that originally debuted on this show. This performer had been a waitress and her song, performed a week prior, had elicited 100K downloads of the song (by virtue of her exposure on the show). Great success story, no?

I objectively listened to the song. It was sound. But the song was pieced together by virtue of a mish-mash of the verse and the chorus. I'm no musical genius but I do know this...without a catchy bridge, you got nothing. And this had nothing.

I always loved that bit in "This Is Spinal Tap" when the character Nigel Tufnel said, "It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why. "

That saddest note, that change, would be The Bridge.