When I was in high school, one of my teachers announced to the class how much he disliked the terms "adult contemporary" and "soft rock."
"'Adult contemporary' makes me ashamed to be an adult," he told us. "As for soft rock, those two words don't belong together. How is it rock music if it's soft?"
He didn't suggest an alternative to either of those terms, however. I wonder what he thinks of the term "yacht rock" that's often applied to soft rock artists of a certain time.
