Bree Sharp
This goo was worth a point in July 2023.
publication date: Monday, June 26, 2023 (part of July 2023)
category: 
Music
clue: The homonymic note B♯ does not appear in her cult hit song from the late 1990s about her TV actor crush.
explanation: Sharp had a minor hit in 1999 with the song "David Duchovny." Her name sounds like "B sharp." more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Steve West
trivia: B♯ is not a real note; it's identical to the note C. When writing the clue, Scott tried to work in a joke about true believers insisting that B♯ does exist despite a conspiracy to cover it up in the official musical scale, as a fun reference to Duchovny's show The X Files, but the joke was too strained and was detracting from the clue.
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