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3mo ago

Daryl Hall Rejects 'Yacht Rock' Label as a Misguided Joke

The Hall & Oates singer denounces the term as reductive, distancing his music from the genre's parody origins.

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Daryl Hall does not want to be associated with the yacht rock genre, and discussed his distaste for the classification during a recent interview on the “Broken Record” podcast. 
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Overview

  • Daryl Hall criticized the 'yacht rock' label on the Broken Record podcast, calling it a 'f****** joke' created by a 2005 comedy web series.
  • Hall rejected the association of Hall & Oates with the genre, describing his music as 'mellow R&B with some jazz' and dismissing the term as misrepresentative.
  • He argued that labels like 'soft rock' and 'yacht rock' emerged because people struggled to categorize his work, which he believes defies such classifications.
  • The term 'yacht rock' originated in a comedic web series but has since been embraced by some artists like Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald, while others, including Donald Fagen, have criticized it.
  • Hall's comments come as he remains estranged from former collaborator John Oates, following a 2023 legal dispute over their publishing company, Whole Oats Enterprises.