Charlie Harding

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3,358 appearances 24 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 4d ago

Charlie Harding’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Switched on Pop · IV. Take It to the Bridge (ft. Tayla Parx) · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And yet it kind of has this outsized reputation in the craft industry.

and the culture of pop music.

It takes a long time to get there.

I mean, you got the intro, you have the verse, you might then have a pre-chorus, chorus, post-chorus, and then you gotta do that all again, right?

Well, no intro.

Maybe there's a little interlude.

Verse, pre-chorus, chorus, post-chorus.

And finally, you've arrived at the bridge, usually at like the golden ratio, around two thirds of the way through the song.

And what's it going to do?

Well, this metaphor of infrastructure is so fitting for this because it kind of feels like it's a moment of suspension.

You know, you've heard all these sections that we've talked about now over three episodes of our show, the intro, the verse, the chorus.

We've cycled through those a few times.

And maybe you've arrived at this penultimate moment in the song where you need a break, you need some contrast, and you get a bridge.

You get to literally go over something.

And before we go any further, I feel like we need to get the sound of a bridge in our ears a little bit.

And Charlie, I'm going to return to the song I played you back when we did our verse episode.

To me, the platonic pop song.

Aretha Franklin's You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman.

Let's not jump straight to the bridge.

We need to appreciate it a little bit in its context.

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