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Innovative Pop Song Recorded Without Rapping Interlude

> “I thought… what if—hear me out—we just don’t put a rapper on this one?”

In what industry observers are calling “a historic break from the laws of physics,” a young pop singer has successfully recorded a song with no rap interlude whatsoever.


The track, tentatively titled “Verse–Chorus–Verse,” was produced at Ocean Loft Studios by veteran pop architect Bruce Cuthbert, who admits he wasn’t sure a song without a guest rapper was “even structurally possible” in the year 2025.


> “At first the board kept flashing errors,” Cuthbert said, recalling early attempts to create a purely melodic pop record. “The system automatically tried patching in Li'l Wayne, then Snoop… then it started suggesting Li'l Uzi and Pitbull like a panicked Roomba.”


Cuthbert says he spent the better part of a week on the phone with talent agents trying to secure anyone to deliver an eight-bar rap bridge, no matter how tenuous the connection to the genre.


> “We actually got as far as talking to Shaggy’s people,” Cuthbert explained. “But apparently he’s somewhere in Asia right now on a spiritual journey to discover a second rap cadence. So he was unavailable.


At one point, someone even suggested trying Q-Tip, but everyone agreed they weren’t emotionally prepared for that level of smoothness.”


With all traditional paths exhausted, Cuthbert says he finally experienced what he describes as “a moment of quiet insanity.”


> “I thought… what if—hear me out—we just don’t put a rapper on this one?”


Fearing immediate intervention from label executives, he kept the idea to himself until he could shut the studio door, dim the lights, and attempt the unthinkable: craft a pop song whose only vocals were sung on purpose.


The experiment worked.


Despite initial confusion from the studio computer—which repeatedly attempted to auto-insert a Post Malone feature—the team pushed through, eventually emerging with a pristine, no-rap track that experts are calling “a 21st-century anomaly, like finding a Blockbuster that’s still open, or a politician who doesn’t have a podcast.”


The single will be released Friday, assuming the label doesn’t panic and add Flo Rida at the last minute.


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