- (all sing along) ♪ If you like making love at midnight ♪
- What the heck is yacht rock?! - I have no clue. (laughs)
- Ooh! - Wait, do we get to drink it?
- (React) Yeah, it's nonalcoholic. Cheers. We're on a boat.
(boat horn blares) - Mm.
- ♪ It's not far... ♪ - I feel like a billionaire now.
- Sensual, hey! - This reminds me on a movie.
- Okay, imagine you're tanning and you're listening to them.
- This is making me think of Margaritaville, honestly!
- Okay. - (sings along) ♪ Just you wait
and see ♪ - Okay.
- Are we gonna talk about the guitar?
How he has two? - He has the two-armed guitar.
- The double. - (sings along) ♪ Sailing ♪
♪ Takes me away ♪ Yes.
- I actually might add this to my playlist.
This is-- I'm being completely honest.
This is the kind of music I listen to.
- Me too. - That was a vibe!
- Y'all just took me there. - Woo!
- (laughs) Yes. - I like that!
- (React) Christopher Cross is considered one
of the godfathers of yacht rock along with Michael McDonald,
Toto, Kenny Loggins, and Steely Dan.
Do any of those names sound familiar?
- Yes. (laughs) - ♪ Come sail away ♪
♪ Come sail ♪ ♪ Come sail away with me ♪
- (React) I wonder if that's yacht rock.
- What is yacht rock? - (React) What is yacht rock?
- Just in a boat, just sailing away with your loved one.
- The ocean's calm and stuff. - Right? I think my genre
might be yacht rock music and I never knew about it.
- Hell yeah. - ♪ Stillness of... ♪
- Is this Fleetwood Mac?! - (sings along) ♪ Remembering
what you had ♪ - I love Fleetwood Mac.
- I can feel the drums in it. - I would just imagine being
on a cruise, dancing in the thingy. - (sings along) ♪ What you lost ♪
- Stevie Nicks, right? - (React) Yes.
- Love her. - (sings along) ♪ Thunder ♪
- Wow, you knew one word. That was impressive.
- I know this song! What are you talking about?!
I knew it before it blew up on TikTok. - I'll be completely honest.
I'm not a big Fleetwood Mac fan. I don't know.
- (React) Ooh, wow. - You don't like this one?
- Not really. - Imagine yourself swimming in the--
with the dolphins. - Eh.
- But do you know the name of the artist?
- Oh, no. Definitely not. - Yeah, I didn't think so.
- Definitely not. - I didn't think so.
- Mm. - That was clean.
- Yeah, that was good. That was good. - See? Thank you. Thank you.
- (React) Some people are like, "I'm gonna die on this hill.
This is yacht rock." And some people are like,
"This is absolutely not yacht rock." - I think it's more classic rock.
- "You wanna sleep to get away." I sing those words
almost every day in my car. - That song is what you feel
when you're delusional. - You listen to that a lot, huh?
- What? - Went right over her head.
- Ah! - (laughs)
- When we're on a yacht, having fun, we don't need
something too aggressive in the ear or something too classical either.
We kind of need a mixture of both.
- ♪ You're delusional ♪ ♪ You're delusional ♪
- And I'm proud. Reality will not bring me down.
- That's Mariah Carey, right? - (gasps and squeals)
- Oh! Yeah! There we go. - I mean, I knew about this
before TikTok! - (laughs)
- I've heard this song before. TikTok again.
- ♪ I guess ♪ - (both sing along) ♪ You wonder
where I've been ♪
- (sings along) ♪ I've searched to find the love within ♪
- (sings along) ♪ I came back to let you knoooow ♪
- Okay. - (sings along) ♪ Got a thing for you
and I can't let go ♪
- It's giving Amish leprechaun. - He's dressed like Indiana Jones.
- Yeah! - Oh!
- ♪ Well, I'm in ♪ - (sings along) ♪ A daze ♪
♪ From your love, you see ♪ - Oh my--
no, why'd it stop? - Ah, I could keep listening to that.
- I mean, you saw me, you know.
- (laughs) - (React) Getting down.
- Yeah, you know. It gets you.
- (React) It's like a little sound on TikTok.
- ♪ Search to find the love within ♪ - I was expecting the one about
I took a boat to some place. - (React) Oh!
- Come sail away? - To find my laundry or something.
- I love it. Bring it back. If it's good, age does not matter.
- I think they're going to China or something.
It's a country. - (React) Okay.
- And then, there's laundry involved, I think.
- Some people get mad that songs blow up from TikTok
'cause I guess they feel like it's not appreciated enough.
But if anything, I'm happy that it's getting
its recognition. - Yeah, 'cause a lot of youngins
wouldn't know it. - Exactly.
- (React) We are moving on to the next group. Also--
- (gasps) Found it. It's ♪ I sailed away to China
in a little row boat to find ya ♪ ♪ And you had your laundry cleaned ♪
- Oh! Oh! ♪ Ain't nothing gonna
break my stride ♪ - Yeah! Yeah!
- ♪ Nobody can slow me down ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪
- (both) ♪ I got to keep on moving ♪
- Ooh! - Okay. It's a TV show.
I heard this on a TV show before.
(laughs) - Out of Grown Ups.
This is the first time I was exposed to that song.
- (sings along) ♪ Do you like pina coladas? ♪
- Look at us. - (sings along) ♪ Or getting
caught in the rain? ♪ - Mm.
- ♪ (hums along) ♪
- (sings along) ♪ If you have half a brain ♪
- Yeah, this worked nicely. - (all sing along) If you like
making love at midnight ♪ - Hold your ears for that one.
- (sings along) ♪ Dunes on the cape ♪ - He's giving very Yung Gravy.
- Oh my god!
- ♪ Write to me and escape ♪ - Mm-mm.
- That was nice! - Ayyy.
- I once had pina colada poured in the rain.
- (React) So close. But not quite.
- Not quite. So look-- - (React) It's similar.
- It has a story. - The story he's telling
is using personal columns in the paper.
That is how some people found dates.
- (React) You know that part in Shrek, the first movie,
where they're introducing the princesses that Lord Farquaad
can choose from? - (Mirror) You've chosen
Princess Fiona. - ♪ If you like pina coladas ♪
- I remember that! - Yes. See, I knew it.
- (React) That's how I first heard of this song.
And I was like... - That makes me wanna rewatch Shrek.
- (React) Do you think Shrek would like yacht rock?
- I think Shrek would-- no. - No.
- He would scream ogrecore probably. - (React laughs) Ogrecore?
- Yeah. - (React) I would like to know
what ogrecore is. - I would like to as well.
- ♪ Summer breeze ♪ ♪ Makes me feel fine ♪
- Hey. I know this song! - ♪ Blowin' through the jasmine
in my mind ♪ - Ay.
- I like the harmonies. - ♪ (imitates instrumentals) ♪
- ♪ Summer breeze ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Makes me feel fine ♪
♪ Going through the jasmine in my-- ♪ - ♪ (sings gibberish) ♪
- (laughs) - Yeah!
- It's so weird how they classify this as a type of rock when there's
all acoustic instruments. - Is it Seals and Crofts?
- (React) Yes. - Is that who it is?
I can't remember who it was. - Thank god that this isn't
a "Do They Know?" and then it's like you have
to answer it 'cause I would be so screwed.
- This was rock in the '70s. That's how--
- Yeah, but when I think of rock, I think of like, "Ah-ah!"
- It just puts you there. I could really feel the vibe
of just sailing and moving. Woo. - My pineapple!
- (React) Its name, yacht rock, was coined in 2005
and was derived from its association with the popular
Southern Californian leisure activity of sailing.
- Hmm. I would've never guessed. - (React) You would've never guessed?
- Never. - When you're rich
and you have a boat and you're like, you know--
you're like... - Rock for white people.
- Ooh! - Oh, this is like...
- It's funky.
- There you go! - ♪ (whistles) ♪
- ♪ And when you smile ♪ - (sings along) ♪ For the camera ♪
- Okay. - Look, there's a Black guy.
- (React chuckles) - Maybe it's not just for white people.
- Please make that a clip. - (all laugh)
- De La Soul took this song. I remember hearing it.
I go, "Wow, I can't believe they sampled that particular song
from Steely Dan." - He knows the drama.
He knows the days. - (both) Hey!
- Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey. - Take a sip.
- Take a sip. - Mmm.
- Put it back. - It's such a calming song
and vibey. - (both snap)
- Ahh, that is so nice. - The R&B, the '80s.
- Yes. - Make you wanna dance.
- ♪ Rhythm and blues ♪ - (React) This style of sound refers
to soft rock from 1975 to 1984. It refers to adult-oriented rock,
or West Coast sound. - Wow, "adult-oriented rock."
- (React) Are there any other genres you're hearing in this?
- Not rock. - This is what rock was before.
It's just very relaxing and kind of just - Not rock. - This is what rock was before.
It's just very relaxing and kind of just
something to get you going. - Oh.
- ♪ To make those rainbows in my mind ♪
- What?! - (sings along) ♪ I think
of you sometime ♪ ♪ I wanna spend some time with you ♪
- (React) Ooh! - (sings along) ♪ Just the two of us ♪
- Oh! - (React) Yeah!
- (both sing along) ♪ We can make it if we try ♪
- (both sing along) ♪ Just the two of us ♪
♪ Just the two of us ♪ - (both sing along) ♪ Just
the two of us ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Building
castles in the sky ♪ - (both sing along) ♪ Just
the two of us ♪ ♪ You and I ♪
- It's not Bill Withers. - (React) Yes, it is.
- It is?! It's Bill Withers? Oh, okay. Good. Phew.
- It brings me back to just being in my room,
probably heartbroken over a boy or something, and I tuned
into the music and just relaxed and chilled and wished I was
old enough to drink a margarita. - You didn't even know
what R&B was at that time, girl. - (laughs)
- Let's work together, and we can make it as a couple.
- Ooh! - Wow, that guy's hair
is longer than mine. Very nice treated.
- ♪ Believes ♪ - (both sing along) ♪ He sees ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Wise man has the power ♪
- This makes me feel like Despicable Me.
- Ah! - Yeah.
- They smoked a blunt before this. (laughs)
- No, that's what inspired their song.
- Okay. - Why am I imagining you with them?
Like, singing in the background. - (sings along) ♪ Wise man
got the pow-- ♪ - Woo.
Yes! Yes! - Oh my gosh!
I love me some of that. - Gosh.
- Do you know this song? Or do you just like it?
- I know the song. - Oh, you know the song.
- Yeah! - Oh, okay. Well, I don't.
- (React) Love that. - But I like it.
- "Well, I don't." - I forget how old this music is.
Not, like, old. Don't come for me in the comments.
- Whoa! - You're not old, okay?
- Whooooa! - If you didn't buy the album
and were lucky enough that the artist put the lyrics
on the album, you had no idea. So, you're on the radio,
and you're like, ♪ What a fool believes ♪
♪ (sings gibberish) ♪ ♪ Power! ♪
- Pharrell's music was in Despicable Me, where it was like,
♪ (hums) ♪ That's the same vibe.
- ♪ It's been you ♪ - Oh yeah.
Oh, I don't know the lyrics, but I know what it is.
- Go, Gerry. ♪ Woo ♪
- Come on. You gotta harmonize. (sings along) ♪ This is my... ♪
- ♪ (sings gibberish) ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Of telling you
every day ♪ - Every day-- every thing.
- (laughs) - Wow, he knows all the lyrics.
- Yeah. - ♪ (hums along) ♪
♪ SpongeBob turned into a clown ♪ - I like this one.
This is very beachy. - ♪ Telling you ♪
♪ That every day, I'm loving you so much more ♪
♪ 'Cause you believed in me ♪ - Oh, you see that?
He had the-- his captain's hat on too. - (React) Yes! Oh my gosh.
That's you guys right now. - (laughs)
- (React) This was actually a song used in an episode
of Euphoria.
- And the lady's in the chair downstairs,
and then they're all like-- and then she's like, "Not me.
I'm a teenager." - (React) Yeah.
- I can hear the melodies of more than one person singing.
- Yes. - Which sounds like the Beach Boys.
It's nice. It's really nice. - I'd listen to it on a boat.
Obviously. Or even the beach. - How often are you on a boat?
Oh! Don Henley. This is the Eagles.
- (React) Mm-hmm. - ♪ Didn't know I was so lonely ♪
- We haven't seen a drummer as a singer yet.
- ♪ You can go the distance ♪ - ♪ What? What? What? What? ♪
♪ What? What? ♪ - No, this is yacht rock.
I would say this is yacht rock. - Ooh! And the harmonies too!
They come together! - ♪ We can handle some resistance ♪
- This one gives me more roadtrip-y vibes.
- (React) Hmm. - Although the Eagles are
a Southern California sound, I don't necessarily
consider them yacht rock. - (React) Mm-hmm.
- How come half of 'em look like Ted Bundy?
- Right? (laughs) - I'm very sorry.
- Yay! - ♪ In the long run ♪
- (React) Someone will say, like, "Oh, this is my favorite
yacht rock song." And then somebody will--
- "That's not yacht rock!" - (React) That's not yacht rock!
- You don't hear too much of pianos or anything
along those lines. It's those types of guitar hooks
and riffs, to me, that lend more towards rock
versus what people are classifying as yacht rock.
- (React) Yeah. - Come at me, internet! Bleh!
- (React) So, the Beach Boys kind of started that
beach goers/sailor vibe. And then, everyone else
kind of took of from there. So...
- Thank you, Beach Boys. - I think some of them are alive,
but... - Pfft! She said next. (smooches)
- And then, now I feel like sailing. I feel like going to the beach
and going on a yacht because of these songs.
- I am not feeling like I wanna sail.
- ♪ Like a roll-- ♪ - Salty fresh.
- Uh-oh. (laughs) - (React) That is a different look
and I like it. - ♪ Well, just give me the sign ♪
- Ooh. Nice. - Booty shorts!
- Nice. Look at those thighs. - But look at him work it.
- I had to get there. I had to get there.
- ♪ That's ♪ - (sings along) ♪ How much I feel ♪
- Moooom. - (sings along) ♪ Feel for you, baby ♪
- ♪ How much I feel ♪ - Ugh, who sings this damn song?
- Oh! (laughs) - He just popped in from afar.
- There he is. There he is again.
- Feel like it's Jesus talking to me right now.
Like it's-- an angel is appearing.
- ♪ That's how much ♪ ♪ That's how much ♪
- Wow, they're on point with these. - ♪ (hums along) ♪
- Oh my gosh. - That was it.
- (React) You know that one too! - That was it. (laughs)
- (React) Oh my god!
- His voice has something in it. - ♪ Feel for you, baby ♪
- I felt it. - (React) The emotion.
- Ambrosia? - (React) Yes.
- Yes! Huh! - (React) You're literally crazy.
- It feels like they're singing their hearts out.
Like, it's so vulnerable. It's so sweet.
And the lyrics of the anecdote are so nice.
- I'm sorry, man have feelings?" Next we're gonna go around
saying men should be able to marry each other.
- (React) Yeah. - (scoffs) Ugh!
- (React) Crazy! - Ugh!
- ♪ Doing anything ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Just to get you
off of my mind ♪ - I feel like I've heard
this song before. I feel like I have.
- It's always the same big hair here. - (snaps) Who sings this?
- (snaps) I heard this before too. - ♪ Tryin' to forget you ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Is just a waste of time ♪
- ♪ Baby, come back ♪ - ♪ Baby, come back! ♪
- No, don't. I don't want him back. But ay. (snaps)
- ♪ In everything about you ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Baby ♪
- (both sing along) ♪ Come back! ♪ - (snaps)
- Come on, high harmony. - Oh, I can definitely listen to that.
- ♪ (hums) ♪ - He knows all of these songs!
How is that even possible? - (React) I know. Insane.
What do you think of these '70s hairstyles?
- I like it. I don't care. Yeah. - Oh, they wearin' 'em. (laughs)
They wearin' 'em. - I like the-- it's a wolf cut, right?
- (React) Yeah. Yeah. - The third one is so cute.
- (React) They kind of were like a one hit wonder apparently.
- I thought it was Exile. - (React) Player.
- Oh! Yeah. - I think it was Yung Gravy's song.
It remixed it. It was like... - Honestly, Yung Gravy does that.
- ♪ And I just can't live without you ♪
And then, it was like, ♪ Juice, sauce ♪
♪ Little bit of dressin' ♪ - ♪ Little bit of butter ♪
- Gravy.
(gasps) ♪ I'm-- ♪ - Speaking of women.
- I know this one. - I don't know.
- Oh my god! That hairstyle is like Will Byers on Stranger Things.
- Okay, so this is the Captain and Tennille.
That's the artist. - Okay.
- Okay. And the guy behind the piano...
- Uh-huh. - ...always had the boat hat on.
So, that's probably why it was coined as yacht rock.
- (sings along) ♪ Together ♪
- I love how they have multiple people in the background
singing it. - Yes! I love the past music!
- Me too. - I feel like I hear a little bit
of jazz only because I feel like there's that--
- The swing. - What's that one instrument?
It's not even-- it's kind of like an instrument.
It's like a drum, but they use this stick, and it has the little
lines on it, so it makes a skkk sound. - Oh, the tat.
- It's definitely upbeat. It's got that, like...
- Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
It's just a tisk. - Kind of a walk to a beat.
♪ Da-dun, da-dun ♪ ♪ Da-dun-da-da-da, bo ♪
- It's not one of my favorites, honestly. (laughs)
- (React) Not one of your favorites? - Yeah, but I remember it.
- ♪ Forgettin' we're not in love... ♪ - Yes! Ah!
(sings along) ♪ I keep forgettin' ♪ - Haircut.
- ♪ Things will never be the same again ♪
- It looks like he's in Gotham. - (React chuckles)
- I mean, the bass riffs, it's so heavy on the music.
That's what drew me to this type of music.
- ♪ Every time you're near ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Every time I... ♪ - I could get jiggy with this.
- You never heard this before? - No.
- Wow! - ♪ Hear your "hello" ♪
- Ooh. That was nice, though. - He looks like a Roblox character.
- They zoomed into his face. (chuckles) Sorry.
- (React) Wait, do you like his face?
That is Michael McDonald.
- Michael Mc-- - Ohhhh!
- ♪ Old McDonald had a farm ♪ - Yeah. Yeah.
- ♪ E-I-E-I-O ♪ - (laughs)
- He looks like-- there's a dog, a specific dog.
It's like-- - Yes!
- (React) He's giving maybe golden retriever...
- Yeah. - (React) Maybe Saint Bernard.
I can't quite put my finger on it, so...
- I see the Saint Bernard. - He has really nice eyes.
- ♪ He had a farm ♪ - And what he say?
- (both) ♪ E-I-E-I-E-I, E-I-O ♪
- (React claps) Heyyy! - I like the raspiness of the voice
and when their soul comes out. It's very nice,
like goosebumps on the yacht. - I think it's like
how we talked about earlier how it's supposed to mellow you out.
You're supposed to be just chillin', relaxing.
- It is really something that you can just groove and vibe to.
And it's really-- I don't know. I like it.
- (React) Yeah? - it's just the feel--
a really good, feel-good vibe. - I feel like I was in paradise.
- You know what felt good? I liked the pina coladas.
I felt very in the vibe. - ("Southern" accent) It just puts me
right to bed in the best way possible. I swear.
This right here just-- ooh! Ooh.
- (React) And did this make you feel nostalgic?
- Yeah. Thank you for not saying old.
But yes, it made me feel nostalgic.
Thank you very much, Kat.
- (React) Would you listen to yacht rock again?
- Yes. I would. - Yeah. I mean, I'm probably going to.
It's probably gonna come up on the radio.
- Yeah. - (React) So, without your consent?
- Yeah, without my consent. Without my written consent
or verbal consent. - It's all gone, y'all! (laughs)