Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Music Trivia: The MTV and Alt-Rock Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The Bridge is back, and this time it's tackling some music trivia about the heyday of MTV, and some alt-rock favorites. Play along at home and quiz yourself by listening to The Bridge. If you’d like to be a contestant on an upcoming show, sign up for a Slate Plus membership, and then enter as a contestant here. You can also enter if you’re already a Slate Plus member. Want your question featured in an upcoming show? Email hitparade@slate.com. Podcast production by T. J. Raphael
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.4 | Hey, everybody. This is Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade, Slate's podcast of Pop Chart History. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome to The Bridge. |
| 0:11.7 | In popular music, The Bridge is a transition in the middle of a song. |
| 0:15.8 | It's the section that contrasts with the verse and the chorus and gets you from point A to point B. |
| 0:21.2 | We call these many episodes of Hit Parade The Bridge because they serve the same function. |
| 0:26.4 | It's also our little homage to James Brown, who, on his 1970 smash Get Up, I Feel Like Being Like Being a Sex Machine, |
| 0:33.8 | utters what is probably the most famous reference to the bridge of a song ever. |
| 0:37.8 | He literally takes you to the bridge. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm thrilled to be joined this month by Steve Liktai, who is the executive producer of Slate Podcasts and my producer for the most recent episode of Hit Parade about Miley Cyrus and the history of the music video. |
| 1:09.1 | Hi, Steve. |
| 1:09.9 | Hello, Chris. |
| 1:28.2 | Thank you so much for being here. We're doing this episode in Slate's DC Studios. I split my time between D.C. and New York, and this is a D.C. month. And also, this was a good month to have you as my co-host because, like I said, you actually edited the most recent episode of Hit Parade. I did. |
| 1:31.7 | I don't do it very often, but I love to do it when I get the chance. |
| 1:38.9 | And this episode was fascinating for me because there were so many songs I had never heard in my life. |
| 1:39.6 | Such as. |
| 1:40.1 | I'm curious. |
| 1:41.4 | Every Miley Cyrus song. |
| 1:41.7 | Okay. |
| 1:45.0 | Except for party in the USA, which I didn't even know that she sang it. I got my hands up to play in my song and know I'm going to be okay. |
| 1:50.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:53.0 | It's a party in the USA. |
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