soft rock

noun

: rock music that is less driving and gentler sounding than hard rock

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With his and Antonoff’s input, Swift took a turn towards folk and soft rock on the album, matching minimalist productions to fictional narratives that borrowed from classic stories. Lolita Mang, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2024 Our current music collection has a lot of Easy-breezy soft rock, yacht rock. Liza Lentini, SPIN, 13 Dec. 2024 But outside of the laughs that the original web series generated, soft rock during the 1970s and 1980s was a very creative time when a good number of musicians like McDonald and the members of Toto ended up on other artists’ records as session players in addition to making their music. David Chiu, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024 Nearly every state has limestone, gypsum and other soft rocks that are susceptible to a collapse. George Petras, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for soft rock 

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of soft rock was in 1965

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“Soft rock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soft%20rock. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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