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I can remember the first time I heard the bridges on pretty much every track on Justin Timberlakes ‘Justified’ album when I was very young. That CD got rinsed and rightly so as I keep finding myself coming back to it, decades after its creation. More recently, I’ve noticed there’s always been at least one track form ‘Justified’ in my most played Spotify list - a clear pattern was developing! I never fully at the time understood what made these tracks so good and what made them scratch an itch in my musical brain that I couldn’t get elsewhere.
As the years progressed, I started to hear patterns and musicians / producers imitating this certain part of the track. Chord changes, reharmonisation and different drum patterns that flicked a switch in my head and took me to a different world. As I grew up, I started to hear less of this as tracks became shorter and less instrumental. Then eventually, I came to find that what made the ‘Justified’ album so good and several over of my liked tracks on SoundCloud, Spotify etc was known as a BRIDGE (or B section).
So without further ado, let’s take it to the bridge…
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