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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?
No they're not I was simply clarifying what I meant in the first post.
Snubbed in your opinion.
I don't pay much attention to the hall of fame, but even I knew that fans of Kiss & Rush were petitioning to get them in because they'd been ignored every year for something like 15 years by saying things like 'It's supposed to be the Rock n Roll hall of fame yet they put in ABBA & The Bee Gees in ahead of two of the biggest rock bands of the 70s'.
I don't recall anyone making the same case for Donna Summer and I speak of someone that likes her music.
Besides, why does she deserve it so much?
I don't see for example the Smiths in there.
If it was down to Donna Summer or The Smiths who I don't believe are inducted currently for a place in a ceremony on a particular year do you go with an artist like Donna Summer who sold a shit ton of records over a short 5 or 6 year period of time and spent the next 30 years basically being a nostalgia act.
Or do you choose a band who never had great record sales, but had a couple of hits but who have sold a steady stream of albums over a 30 year period who have stayed relevant despite being split up for most of that time and who I would argue are more popular now with a teen/20something audience than when they were together in the mid 80s.
Personally I think Donna Summer would have only stood a chance of getting in that hall of fame in two ways. Her suddenly reinvented herself for a new audience and having huge selling hits again, or as an acknowledgement of her talent when she died.
It turned out to be the latter.
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I don't really care about the RHOF either but I do think the way they induct certain artists over others and their political nature is interesting and is worth bringing up to make points in music discussions.
I think Donna Summer deserves to get in because she actually is the main artist that really made disco into an "art form" and she is one of the greatest pop singers of all time in my opinion. I can not imagine any one else singing Macarthur's Park which is basically a song that uses descriptions of a cake withering away. She sung the hell out of that song and made me sad that the cake rained out in the rain lol
My issue with Donna Summer and the RHOF is, she was nominated to be inducted 5/6 times (while she was alive) and they snubbed her. So this lets me know that they wanted her to be inducted because they nominated her multiple times but they did not actually pick her for whatever political reason. They waited till she died to induct her which is sad because she should have already been inducted. Her family even commented on that when they represented her in the induction ceremony. She is not an act that should have gotten in because of her death. She is an act that made a significant impact on music (at a certain period in time) and deserves to get in.