![]() Stream songs including 'Rock Ballad', 'Touch Your Feelings' and more. Easy Listening was almost entirely about great sweeping washes of melody. Listen to Rock Ballads Collection - Best of Instrumental Soft Rock by Rock Destination Team on Apple Music. Soft rock is a subgenre of rock music that emphasizes pop hooks, pristine studio production, and pleasing sonic aesthetics. The "Great American Songbook" genre of postwar pop is also often confused with Easy Listening, but one grew naturally from the other as the Greatest Generation grew older in suburbia, the brash and jazzy swing of pop naturally gave way to something just as melodic but decidedly less rhythmic. It's sometimes referred to as "elevator music," but this actually does a disservice to easy listening, since such canned music often came produced and recorded as cheaply as possible. By contrast, Easy Listening was strictly European in nature traditional Italian, German, French and Polish songs often featured prominently. The style is often confused with "exotica," a brand of album-centered instrumental pop that featured more bizarre arrangements, and, as the title implies, based in a Western approximation of more exotic native music, usually that of South America, Africa, or the Caribbean Islands. Differences Between Easy Listening and Similar Genres
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