Divorced Dad Rock

A style of rock, in which includes bands such as Creed, Pearl Jam, and Stone Temple Pilots. This word was popularized by rock social media.

“Everybody love a bit of divorced dad rock every now and then. Who doesn’t love Pearl Jam?”

by Androidxpert59674 November 10, 2025

Dad Rocker

Not to be confused with "Dad Rock," dad rockers are middle aged boomers from the suburbs, between ages 40 and 60. Their oatmeal rock is inspired by famous bands of the 60's and 70's, such as The Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa and Willie Nelson. Their band-image is influenced by live performances of Sting and/or U2. Most members are balding if not completely bald and begin sweating upon reaching the stage. This creates "dad rock forehead syndrome", which is unappetizing. They have a lot of money to spend on Harley Davidson motorcycles and top-of-the line musical equipment, but neither have musical nor Hell's Angel's backgrounds.

Their wives are their only true fans. You can identify a dad rock ensemble by the drunk wives dancing and clapping loudly while their husbands dedicate power love ballads to them in hopes of reigniting flames long since extinguished. This often works because the drunker the wives get, the more they are capable of pretending the dad rockers are in actuality some semi-well-known band from their youth. After the show is done, you can find these couples making out and smoking cigarrettes in the parking lot. This typically creates a buzz-kill for the other patrons of the establishment.

Dude, stay away from Lucky's tonight, that place is really going downhill. Those dad rockers, The 13th Street Bad Boys, somehow made it back on the ticket again. Remember last time when their wives all got up on stage and started dancing around on stage during that Rolling Stones cover?

by PortlandAntiDadRockUnited June 16, 2009

Dad Rockers

Young people usually in their 20s and early 30s who listens to classic rock or dad rock and not much else.

Dad rockers tend to not like new music.

by fartfootnugent May 12, 2019

dadrock

Classic rock you first heard from your dad's old record collection.

1: "I got into The Beatles after my dad showed me some of their albums he bought in the '60s."

2: "So you listen to a lot of dadrock?"

by Blaze1289 March 22, 2010

Dadrock

Term used by children who are angry that most of the modern music they listen to from their generation is garbage in comparison. Unable to come up with viable comparisons to previous classic bands and musical artists, they resort to insulting all of them at once in a dismissive and condescending tone.

"Hey Paul, why do you listen to that garbage Ke$sha and that little pop-brat Lady GaGa, who pander to the lowest common denominator in order to sell records based off their intrinsic reliance on the inversion of past trends, fads, and ideas in order to seem edgy and intelligent? Why not listen to some classic music like Led Zeppelin, Simon and Garfunkel, or Iron Butterfly, or The Eagles, who instead rely on their ability to craft music and lyrics which are both sentimental but also relate-able because of their universal and endearing subject matter?"

"HAW, YOU'RE JUST A FAGGOT WHO ONLY LISTENS TO DADROCK!"

by Gorilla Grodd August 1, 2014

Dadrock

A term almost exclusively used by millenials who think artists the likes of Cardi B and mumble rappers are the best representations of music to date; any music made before the last decade is obsolete and absolutely unlistenable.

"My favorite song? That's a hard one. I think Deep Purple's Highway Star has to be in there somewhere, but i listen to a lot of different music so i'd have to do it by genre at least.

"OMG u listen to dadrock? cringe bro"

by OneshortKK March 5, 2022