Daryl Hall Rejects “Yacht Rock” Designation: “A Fucking Joke By Two Jerk-Offs”

Yacht rock is not a real genre of music. It’s a label that was retroactively applied to a certain form of smooth, mellow ’70s and ’80s pop music, and it comes from a series of comedy videos that started in the ’00s. Some of the artists depicted on that series, like Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, have embraced the term, playing yacht rock tours and appearing in the HBO documentary on the subject. Others, like Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, are not into it. Add Daryl Hall to the latter group.