what or who is Yacht?
there's Jona Bechtolt who was briefly a part of The Blow, a moniker used by Mikhaela Yvonne Maricich. he stumbled into music by playing the drums in Allegro, the band of his older brother -who no longer plays music, he informed me- of whom unfortunately i can't seem to track down any footage, after which he started fooling around with electronics in the late 90's to officially debut as Yacht in 2003. and then there's his girlfriend Claire Evans who joined Jona relatively recently in 2008 and in my opinion it's essentially a return to the area The Blow circa Poor Aim: Love Songs was also operating in which i liked very much, albeit a bit more up-tempo or danceable.
anyone else think there's an uncanny (and surely coincidental) resemblance to the chorus in Yelle's A Cause Des Garçons?
another song isn't so coincidentally similar, i think. i've actually had a pretty intense argument about this particular song.
fuck me if that's not a blatant Miss You (mmm special disco version) rip off. i only resent it because Jona is such a talented guy and capable of much more than this kind of repetition. yeah, Yacht rocks, actually. Yacht rocks? that brings us seamlessly to Yacht Rock, yay!
Yacht Rock was a short-lived mockumentary about a genre (having found entry in musical nomenclature ever since!) championed by such musicians as Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins. it boils down to rock music always having to be smooth. it is quite simply hilarious. there is no excuse for you not to watch it (and learn at the same time = whoa!). like, now. all of them, one after another. go!
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