Saaaaailing Takes Me Awaaaaaaay

Lay the blame at the feet of heksenhaus .

Someone is clearly taking the piss.  I'm just not sure if it's only one or both articles.

Here's the pull quote from sjb's link.

Instead of the rationalized production of “cool” and novel lifestyle tropes that the late 1960s unleashed, yacht rock turned to aggressively uncool and retrograde signifiers of achievement: yachts, sailor caps, tropical getaways, tans,  state-of-the-art audiophilia — exhausted symbols that could be recuperated only as carnivalesque parody. By de-emphasizing identity, innovation, and novelty, yacht rock re-imagines luxury’s abundance as inclusiveness rather than scarcity, a mode of enjoyment by rights open to all and offensive only to those snobs who predicate their pleasure on feelings of superiority. It unequivocally rejects the productivity of connoisseurship in favor of a taken-for-granted democratic lexicon of public-domain cliches of the good life.


And here's one from the article it rebuts:

The ulcerating chancre known as “yacht rock” was the sign of a greater, gathering plague: that of the reactionaries and their most potent poison, the redistributive, soak-the-poor tenets of neoliberal economics. Six months after those Grammys, American air traffic controllers went on strike for better working conditions, and the tertiary phase had begun.

Taking the piss.