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Cher Says The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Can Go Fuck Itself (www.stereogum.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Whitney Houston was inducted a couple of years ago. You don’t get more pop that than that, she was not rock at all; that year, she beat out Motörhead, Judas Priest, and Todd Rundgren. I don’t see how she influenced rock music, and yet, she even beat out someone who inspired her, and whose music is more closely related to rock than hers was, Chaka Khan.

I’m not saying she wasn’t incredibly talented, just that either she just doesn’t belong in the Rock n Roll HoF, or that the institution itself is a joke that shouldn’t exist.

Anyway, yeah, they induct pop singers.