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Irish times article on Cross for his Irish tour coming later this month.

One thing that struck me here is the comment from the frontman of Yacht Rock Revue who considers yacht rock to be more of a feeling then any strict definition which is of course just wrong, but is unfortunately what the general public seems to believe.

I do like hearing that Cross declined a million dollar offer to play at Mar-a-Lago... he's a man of my own heart. The article also reminded me that we almost lost him to Guillan-Barre syndrome caused by Covid. The fact that he made it through that to now tour the world and see his music finally get the recognition it deserves almost brings tears to my eyes.

This modern band has a few songs that could make the boat and this is definitely one of them IMO... it's pretty smooth and pretty yachty... fairly true to the period also, doesn't sound too modern. The synths at the end are weird but other then that I'd put this one on the boat pretty easily.

Just posting this for the lols... it's just basically the original song with Urban's vocals and a few countrified guitar riffs. I guess it's technically yachtier then that other song he did with MM, but why bother with a cover that does nothing much new when you can just listen to the superior original song?

This had to be fairly recent... love to see it.

It’s on at 29 due to the Michael Jackson biopic. It’s too bad most people don’t realize this is essentially a Toto song. I don’t follow the hot 100 much but when was the last time a yacht song charted?

Working with ChatGPT lately I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s almost to the level of sophistication of the computer on Star Trek TNG. I mean what is the Star Trek computer but a highly advanced LLM? The next step which is coming sooner than you think is essentially the Star Trek Holodeck, but in VR rather than physical space. It won’t be long before I can put on my VR headset and just ask ChatGPT to:

“Put me on the deck of a luxury yacht sailing on perfectly calm tropical waters with a margarita in my hand and Sailing by Christopher Cross playing in the background”

And within seconds a fully interactive scene is sent to my headset and I’m basically experiencing a holodeck program. With enough compute power and a a bit stronger model and this is within grasp.

It seems like there's some yacht rock superfans within the screenwriter community because Christopher Cross and yacht rock appear on yet another modern TV show, this time the peacock show M.I.A.... apparently the character listens to yacht rock to help him with his mental disorder which hits hard for me since it helps me greatly with my anxiety.

So now we've got Chair Company, Beauty, Euphoria, and now M.I.A... four recent shows mentioning CC and yacht rock.

Never knew this existed until now... this is George Benson with an (IMO) excellent smooth jazz rendition of Sailing by Christopher Cross.

Before accusing me of being a complete yacht rock noob, I know what the Crossfire is on a basic level... it's the production style that produces that awesome smooth yachty sound on Christopher Cross' self titled album.

I know that much, but what I'm asking here is can someone with some deeper knowledge of music than I have explain what it is musically... and what to look for to find it in other songs that are not expressly CC songs. I've heard the guys mention crossfire a few times with non-CC songs and I'd love to really know what to listen for other than just "this sounds like a CC song"... thanks!