Gwen Stefani’s new album, ‘Bouquet,’ was inspired by yacht rock, so Us Weekly compiled a quick guide to the genre
To a certain generation, Gwen Stefani will always be the pink-haired ska goddess she was circa No Doubt’s Return of Saturn, but for her latest solo album, she took her sound in a very different direction.
The Voice coach, 55, has said Bouquet — out Friday, November 15 — was inspired by yacht rock, the once-maligned genre exemplified by artists like Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers. “I always remember sitting in the back of my mom’s car and all of the songs playing were just so good,” Stefani told NME in October. “I mean, it was just the popular music of the time, which was classic rock, but I call it ‘yacht rock’ because if you put on a yacht rock playlist, it’s those songs: Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, the Eagles.”
The Grammy winner explained that she wanted to go back to that 1970s sound after spending much of her solo career putting a new spin on the ’80s. “I think the older you get, the more nostalgic you get,” she said. “I feel like I’ve played out all the ’80s stuff — like, I can’t even listen to it anymore so much. I want to write music that feels like this music because there’s more chords in it, there’s more melody, and I really feel like I ended up getting there with this album.”There is simply no yacht rock without Cross or this song, which typifies the genre’s oh-so-smooth, jazz-inspired sound.
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