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Paramount+ To Launch ‘Sometimes When We Touch’ Documentary Exploring The History of “Yacht Rock”

Paramount+ has announced that SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH , a three-part documentary series exploring the history of soft rock music , will premiere exclusively on the service in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023 and will also stream in the U.K., Latin America and Australia ( Wednesday, Jan. 4 ), Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France ( Tuesday, April 4 ).

SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH is the untold story of soft rock, whose artists dominated pop music worldwide in the ‘70s, only to crash and burn in the ‘80s, eventually experiencing one of the most unlikely comebacks in music history. The series presents all-new interviews with some of soft rock’s biggest legends, like Air Supply (“All Out of Love”), Dan Hill (“Sometimes When We Touch”), Kenny Loggins (“This Is It”), Ray Parker Jr. (“A Woman Needs Love”), Rupert Holmes (“Escape: The Piña Colada Song”) and Toni Tennille (“Love Will Keep Us Together”). Through candid and poignant stories, these stars lead a celebration of the underappreciated music that continues to have a lasting impact on American culture.

The connective stories that propel the series are augmented by exclusive interviews with dozens of classic and contemporary musicians like Daryl “DMC” McDaniels, John Ondrasik, LA Reid, Richard Marx, Robert “Kool” Bell, Sheryl Crow, Stewart Copeland, Susanna Hoffs and Verdine White; rarely seen archival interview and performance footage; host commentary that embraces the impact of soft rock while acknowledging the cringey excesses that sometimes led it astray; and a review of its continuing power over a new generation found everywhere from hip hop samples and radio remakes to superhero soundtracks and TikTok posts.

The series is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios in partnership with Gunpowder & Sky. Produced by Van Toffler and executive produced by David Gale, Floris Bauer, Barry Barclay and Joanna Zwickel for Gunpowder & Sky, co-executive produced by Rick Krim, executive produced and written by Chuck Thompson and executive produced and directed by Lauren Lazin. Bruce Gillmer and Vanessa Whitewolf executive produce for MTV Entertainment Studios, with Jennifer Yandrisevits serving as Senior Director of Production.

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Paramount+ Goes Behind the Music In a Surprisingly Dark Soft Rock Doc

The next time you’re at a drugstore, pay attention to the music being piped through the aisles. Those pleasant background tunes may not sound menacing, but sometimes, they’ve got histories that would make Ozzy Osbourne blush. That’s one of the fascinating revelations in Sometimes When We Touch , Paramount+’s new docuseries about the rise, fall, and rebirth of soft rock.

To be clear, the show is not revolutionizing the music doc genre. (It debuted on January 3, but some premieres can pass even TV critics by.) Charting the careers of sentimental ’70s and ‘80s acts like Air Supply, Christopher Cross, and Ray Parker Jr., it follows the standard Behind the Music formula: Old-timers talk about their glory days and how they were certain they’d last forever. They discuss the hard times, after some new style pushed them off the charts, and they wrap it up with a hopeful look to the future. But as familiar as this might be, the series has a few ingredients that give the recipe a kick.

First is the willingness to go dark. Several musicians and music journalists discuss how soft rock’s eventual collapse was rooted in a hyper-masculine rejection of men who made vulnerable records. There are damning montages of old movies and newspaper articles all but threatening violence against Barry Manilow, Michael McDonald, and their ilk. While many stories have been told about how the disco backlash was rooted in racism, homophobia, and misogyny, it’s enlightening to consider that similar prejudices hounded The Doobie Brothers, too.

At times, though, the trouble came from inside the house. In the show’s frankest interview, Toni Tennille, half of the duo Captain & Tennille, discusses her loveless marriage with Daryl “The Captain” Dragon. While they were gaining millions of fans with bouncy tunes like “Love Will Keep Us Together,” she was going home to a miserable private life, utterly devoted to a man who was incapable of showing her affection. It’s hard to hear their hit “The Way I Want to Touch You” in the same way after she says she wrote it as a plea for her husband to be nice to her. Similarly, Canadian balladeer Dan Hill alters the context of his hit “Sometimes When We Touch” — yes, the one that gives the series its name — when he describes the slightly obsessive relationship that inspired it.

But despite these dark underbellies, many of these songs remain incredibly satisfying. The show’s other standout trait is its eagerness to ask why. Instead of ironically shrugging at the recent boom in “yacht rock” revival tours, director and executive producer Lauren Lazin digs into what makes this music work for a new generation. This includes both a sharp analysis of our need for gentle art and a sophisticated segment on the melodic structures and production techniques in songs like Elton John’s “Daniel” or Toto’s “Africa.” This is where industry interviewees like producer L.A. Reid and Bangles frontwoman Susannah Hoffs prove invaluable: They have the professional expertise to explain what the average listener might only be able to sense.

Best of all, Sometimes When We Touch drops all this knowledge with a generous sense of fun. The narration is lighthearted but not snarky. The soundtrack respects the breadth of the late ’70s and early ’80s by playing classics alongside forgotten hits like Stephen Bishop’s “On and On.” And all the talking heads, whether they were making this music or grew up listening to it, acknowledge the ludicrous moments while celebrating the transcendent ones. That’s just the balance the series needs to capture an era that produced both cheesy variety shows and timeless ballads in record numbers.

Sometimes When We Touch is now streaming on Paramount+. Join the discussion about the show in our forums .

Mark Blankenship has been writing about arts and culture for twenty years, with bylines in The New York Times, Variety, Vulture, Fortune, and many others. You can hear him on the pop music podcast Mark and Sarah Talk About Songs .

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Soft Rock Documentary Sometimes When We Touch Coming to Paramount+

A new three-part documentary about soft rock is coming to Paramount+, Variety reports. It’s titled Sometimes When We Touch and it hits the streaming platform on Tuesday, January 3. Watch the teaser trailer for it below; scroll down for the documentary’s poster.

Subtitled The Reign, Ruin and Resurrection of Soft Rock , the documentary digs into the history of the genre, which boomed in commercial popularity from the seventies through the early eighties. Sometimes When We Touch also features commentary from Kenny Loggins, L.A. Reid, Sheryl Crow, Susanna Hoffs, and more.

MTV Entertainment Studios co-produced Sometimes When We Touch with the studio Gunpowder & Sky. It focuses on performers like Hall & Oates, Loggins, Lionel Richie, Air Supply, and Michael McDonald, among others. Richie, who had solo hits with soft rock cuts like “Hello” and “Truly,” was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year.

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Everybody’s a softie — well, almost everyone — when it comes to a fondness for the not-so-hard-hitting heyday of “soft rock,” which has a strong overlap with what’s come to be known and celebrated as “yacht rock.” Paramount+ is counting on a nation of viewers having a hankering for the soft stuff with its upcoming streaming premiere of a three-part documentary, “Sometimes When We Touch,” slated for the U.S. and Canada on Jan. 3.

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Among the artists whose hits will come up in the series are — besides the aforementioned Daryl Hall and John Oates — Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Christopher Cross, Air Supply, Ambrosia, the Carpenters, the Captain & Tennille and Lionel Richie . While some music fans might feel it’s a stretch to consider the last few acts “rock” at all, tell it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which just inducted Richie last month.

Among those interviewed for the series, not all of them soft-rockers themselves by trade: Sheryl Crow, Stewart Copeland of the Police, Run DMC’s Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Susanna Hoffs, LA Reid, Richard Marx, Robert “Kool” Bell, Verdine White and, as seen in the trailer (above), Variety ‘s Owen Gleiberman. Verified soft-rock vets showing up for discussion include Loggins, Toni Tennille, Rupert Holmes, Dan Hill, Ray Parker Jr. and Air Supply.

Van Toffler produced, Lauren Lazin executive-produced and directed, and Chuck Thompson wrote and exec-produced. Other executive producers include David Gale, Floris Bauer, Barry Barclay and Joanna Zwickel for Gunpowder & Sky; Rick Krim; and Bruce Gillmer and Vanessa Whitewolf for MTV Entertainment Studios. Jennifer Yandrisevits was senior director of production.

The doc will stream in the U.K., Australia and Latin America on Jan. 4, the day after it debuts in the States. Viewers in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France will get their crack at it April 4.

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