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The Jonas Brothers' Yacht Rock Revival

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The Yacht Rock Phenomenon

The best example is War and G's regulate, which samples Michael McDonald's I Keep For Again. Maybe another explanation would be the 40 year itch. A term coined by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik back in 2012 to explain the success of mad men in the 2000s. He says that the prime site of nostalgia is always whatever happened or is thought to have happened in the decade between 40 and 50 years past.

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