The thing about soft rock is that it was never an exclusive genre. Cross-pollinating among pop, rock, country rock and, especially, adult contemporary music of the day, the best soft rock records ...

Swift keeps the drama low‑key and the tempo measured, exactly what you want when you’re trying to stay in the zone. Soft piano and steady phrasing make it easy to tune into your problem sets while the ...

Building on the folk-singer-songwriter phase of the ’60s, the 1970s rock scene began to take on a softer edge. This would, rather uninventively, become known as “soft rock.” The ’70s would be rife ...