“It was a joke and suddenly it became a genre. I don't even understand it. I never understood it”: Daryl Hall can’t get onboard with the concept of yacht rock - “It's just R&B, with maybe some jazz in there"

Hall & Oates.

His music might be considered by some to be archetypal of the genre, but Daryl Hall has no truck with the concept of yacht rock, or the idea that he’s part of it.

When it was put to him during an appearance on the Broken Record podcast that music of the kind that he made with Hall & Oates has now been classified as yacht rock, Hall said: “This is something I don't understand. First of all, yacht rock was a fucking joke by two jerk-offs in California and suddenly it became a genre. I don't even understand it. I never understood it.”