What bowls you over is the intensity of his yearning - teary in the verses, snarling during the chorus.
But Loggins delivers the lyrics in a desperate stage whisper, like someone determined to make the kind of love that doesn’t wake the baby.
“This Is It” was a hit in 1979 and has the requisite smoothness to keep the yacht rocking. Then Kenny Loggins’s “This Is It” arrived and took things far beyond the line. Which artists would saunter up to the racial border? And which could do their sauntering without violating it? I could hear degrees of blackness in the choir-loft certitude of Doobie Brothers-era Michael McDonald on “What a Fool Believes” in the rubber-band soul of Steely Dan’s “Do It Again” in the malt-liquor misery of Ace’s “How Long” and the toy-boat wistfulness of Little River Band’s “Reminiscing.” I started putting each track under investigation. I had to laugh - not because as a category Yacht Rock is absurd, but because what I tasted in that absurdity was black. But as the hours passed and dozens of songs accrued, the sound gravitated toward a familiar quality that I couldn’t give language to but could practically taste: an earnest Christian yearning that would reach, for a moment, into Baptist rawness, into a known warmth. With two exceptions, they were all white. “A tongue-in-cheek name for the breezy sounds of late ’70s/early ’80s soft rock” is Pandora’s definition, accompanied by an exhortation to “put on your Dockers, pull up a deck chair and relax.” With a single exception, the passengers aboard the yacht were all dudes. All rights reserved.I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. Once again, Ye proves that he is one step ahead of the legacy media narrative.”Ĭopyright © 2022, ABC Audio.
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Parlement Technologies CEO George Farmer noted in the announcement, “This deal will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech,” explaining, “Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again. The announcement - which described West as “the richest Black man in history,” a descriptive he himself has used recently - claims Ye is “taking a bold stance against his recent censorship from Big Tech, using his far-reaching talents to further lead the fight to create a truly non-cancelable environment.”įurther, the press release says Ye’s ownership “will assure Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome.” In the Parler announcement, Ye declared, “In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.” Twitter on the same day also removed a tweet that was judged anti-Semitic. The move comes after Ye’s Instagram account was restricted recently for violating the platform’s rules and guidelines, reportedly over a now-deleted post that was labeled as anti-Semitic. Specifically, Ye has agreed to acquire the app Parler, which bills itself as “the world’s pioneering uncancelable free speech platform.” After weeks of getting in hot water on social media, Kanye West is buying his own platform.
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