{"id":95672,"date":"2025-05-12T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/95672\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:36:15","slug":"daryl-hall-slams-the-jerk-offs-who-started-yacht-rock-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/95672\/","title":{"rendered":"Daryl Hall Slams the \u2018Jerk Offs\u2019 Who Started Yacht Rock Term"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Hall, no Oates.
\n Photo: Scott Legato\/Getty Images\n <\/p>\n

Yeah, he\u2019s watching you and is pissed off. Daryl Hall, a peripheral artist in the yacht-rock universe thanks to the soulful listening of Hall & Oates, doesn\u2019t find conversations about the genre to be worthy of his time or respect. In fact, he\u2019s playing it Donald Fagen style<\/a>. \u201cThis is something I don\u2019t understand. First of all, yacht rock was a fucking joke by two jerk offs in California and suddenly it became a genre,\u201d he told the Broken Record podcast<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t even understand it. I never understood it.\u201d Hall\u2019s irritation, ostensibly, stems from the haphazard criteria that has come to define yacht rock as we know it. \u201cIt\u2019s just R&B with maybe some jazz in there,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt\u2019s mellow R&B. It\u2019s smooth R&B. I don\u2019t see what the yacht part is.\u201d He added about Hall & Oates being included in yacht-rock playlists that often feature Toto, Steely Dan, and anything Michael McDonald touches<\/a>: \u201cPeople misjudged us because they couldn\u2019t label us. They always came up with all this kind of crap, soft rock and yacht rock and all this other nonsense. And none of it, none of it really describes anything that I do really.\u201d Yeah, okay, but what does Oates think?<\/p>\n

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