For class on October 24th, we had to come prepared to class with a music genre that we were interested in researching that was “born” before I was born. After taking some time to think about what I wanted to learn more about I decided why not research soft rock. It is underrated in my opinion and soft rock singers like Eric Clapton, Elton John, and Bryan Adams were involved in my childhood car rides thanks to my dad. I began using Google Ngram Viewer to see if any patterns occurred surrounding the soft rock era, which originated in the early 1970’s. When using Google Ngram Viewer I saw that in the 1980’s soft rock and teen pregnancy crossed on the graph. This just left me to assume reckless teens were going to concerts or staying out too late and wound up in some trouble. What I also discovered using Google Ngram Viewer was that soft rock and drug usage crossed on the graph in the late 60’s and early 70’s, which is not that shocking since half of American’s were “experimenting” with drugs and were complete flower childs. After playing around on Google Ngram Viewer I logged into ProQuest to search some articles regarding Soft Rock. One article, Soft Rock: The Hard Truth written by Diane White for the Boston Globe described Soft Rock as an oxymoron. She went on to explain its either rock or not so what is soft? Diane White concluded that rock by definition isn’t soft, but “soft rock has become a fast replacing loathsome in its own special way”. To broaden my knowledge further I decided to also listen to the soft rock station on Pandora and to my surprise it was not just the classics, but songs from the early 2000’s such as Wherever You Will Go by The Calling and You’re Beautiful by James Blunt, which I have always considered more alternative were categorized under soft rock. To conclude, I think soft rock never left us I believe it has been reshaped just as 90’s rap is nothing like todays rap, its a constant evolution but the slow tempo and melody remain true to the soft rock roots. Besides the digital scavenger hunt we had a class discussion that began with showing the class 634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A) song where you can hear the lazy back beat in the song. Al Green Love and Happiness was a famous back beat song, where it was concluded that if you have a good drummer you may say “give me more of a back beat feel”. We finished our class discussion this day by learning how white people push the beat, so they have a front beat vs a back beat.