Anyone else wildly insulted by this term?

Not really

I embrace it.

I never heard of the term until I saw Rick Beato’s youtube video about it.

Steely Dan were only briefly “yacht rock” but were more jazz fusion and soul/r&b if anything.

Yacht rock is almost another term for soft rock or adult contemporary of the mid 70s- early 80s

I've never liked the term. Seemed to be derogatory and unfitting of the genre.

I think it's derogatory too.

A stupid term made up by a couple of idiots who weren't even around when these songs came out.

I listened to these songs when they were new and I wasn't on a yacht.

Naw, it's fine, and that is totally music from MY era.
Difference being I've adapted to the modern stuff whole heartedly as well and don't see yacht rock as MY beloved music to be offended over it. It's just great music - still is, always will be - no matter what anyone calls it.

I like YACHT ROCK now because I can easily find play lists of all that stuff in one chunk to listen to, reminisce, and enjoy, with very little effort. Bring on the classifications.

It does remind me of pastel colored clothes, deck shoes, and sipping a fine wine on the bow of my yacht, enjoying the fresh clean music of a time where music was created by musicians, not computers, and lyrics were not about WET ASS PUSSIES.

they can stab us with their steely k Ives but they just can’t kill the beast