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Celeb News: Rock&Roll HoF: Bey, Rih, Adele future inductees?
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Rock&Roll HoF: Bey, Rih, Adele future inductees?
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame of the Future
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According to the Rock Hall’s website, an artist must meet two requirements to be eligible for immortality: (1) release music 25 years prior to the year of induction, and (2) demonstrate “unquestionable musical excellence.”
“We shall consider factors such as an artist’s musical influence on other artists, length and depth of career and the body of work, innovation and superiority in style and technique,” the Rock Hall’s eligibility requirements state, “but musical excellence shall be the essential qualification of induction.”
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Beyoncé
Somehow Beyoncé doesn’t seem like a legacy artist whose career goes back to the late ’90s, perhaps because (unlike the aforementioned “locks”) Beyoncé is more popular and critically respected now than she was at the start of her recording career 16 years ago. The hyperbolic hosannas that once greeted new Radiohead albums in the music press are now bestowed on new Beyoncé LPs. If the Rock Hall decides to rechristen itself “The We Love Beyoncé Will You Please Hang Out With Us Pleeeeeeeeez XOXOXO Stan Club” in 2028, I won’t be that surprised.
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NEEDS HELP
Adele
She’s put out only two albums, but one of them, 2011’s 21, is the record industry’s one true “old-school” blockbuster of the last several years. The success of 21 is truly historic: More and more, it seems impossible that another album will move more than 10 million copies like 21 has. Adele is set up to have a career that just goes on forever — she appeals to people who don’t normally follow pop music that closely, which is the single biggest audience a performer can reach. Whether Adele ever tops 21 is beside the point; her kind of stardom is not predicated on being on the cutting edge or remotely trendy. Whatever she does, Adele will always be the woman who made 21.
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LONG SHOTS
Rihanna
You want to talk about the dominance standard? Let’s talk about Rihanna. Since 2005, she has released 20 top-10 singles on the Hot 100 chart. More than half those singles went to no. 1. Her last six albums have gone platinum. (Only her 2005 debut, Music of the Sun, failed to reach that benchmark, going gold.) It is impossible to survey the landscape of contemporary pop and R&B radio without coming to terms with the breadth of Rihanna’s tremendous reach.
Here’s the problem: Who is Rihanna? Her music is ubiquitous but her essence is untouchable — unknowable, even. She is on her records, but she’s not in them. It’s difficult to discern whether people love Rihanna or if Rihanna is merely the packaging for popular songs. Rihanna’s songs are woven into the fabric of modern pop; whether the artist herself is entitled to a memorial is another question.
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Do you agree? Which artists do you feel will or will not make the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame? Which artists have made the necessary impact and influence to rise above quick lil singles and enter the realm of legends?
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Will reopen this thread in 15 years 
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Beyoncé 
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All 3 will. And this is AP.
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Originally posted by liberalmusiclover
All 3 will. And this is AP.
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Thanks for your opinion.
Is it? It didn't come up when I put the original thread title in.
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Beyoncé was already invited. The email was posted on the now defunct, BWB, they couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts or something like that.
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Originally posted by DG1
Beyoncé was already invited. The email was posted on the now defunct, BWB, they couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts or something like that.
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Her POWER. Circumventing the longevity requirements. 
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Originally posted by DG1
Beyoncé was already invited. The email was posted on the now defunct, BWB, they couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts or something like that.
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Taylor Swift
Speaking of Grammys, Taylor Swift would be in the “locks” category had Red won Album of the Year in February. That would’ve been her second Album of the Year Grammy in four years, a clear demonstration of the dominance standard. But Swift didn’t win. Why didn’t she win again? I’m listening to Red as I type this and I feel a powerful urge to hand Taylor Swift a gold-plated gramophone. Random Access Memories is a paean to the big-tent pop albums of the past, but Red is an actual big-tent pop album of the present. Perhaps in 20 years, two French cyborgs will make an homage to Red that will win a Grammy.
Two things hurt Red: (1) It came out in October 2012, almost a year and a half before the 2014 Grammy ceremony. If it had come out seven months later, around the time Random Access Memories was released, I think it would have won easily. And, (2) Taylor Swift is only 24 years old. She’s lived as long as bands that will be eligible for induction in 2015 have been making albums. It’s the Jennifer Lawrence Rule: Awards shows don’t want to spoil young, prodigiously talented women with overpraise. People are betting on Swift to not suffer from a drug overdose, a plane crash, or some other career-derailing incident, and produce more award-worthy work in the future.
Possible obstacle: Swift is ostensibly a crossover country artist in the mold of Garth Brooks and Shania Twain, and Garth Brooks and Shania Twain aren’t getting into the Rock Hall. But judging from the direction she forged on Red, I’m guessing Swift will be moving even further afield from country in the years ahead, similar to how class of 2014 inductee Linda Ronstadt moved on from being a country rocker early in her career to a sax-heavy interpreter of prime-era Elvis Costello songs.
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And you didnt add her to the OP because?
And her image is at the head of the article 
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Well everyone can agree that Bey will be inducted. I think Adele can too, hopefully.
And I also agree that Rih doesn't stand much of a chance.
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Spot on tbh.
Bey is already a legend, the next logical step would be her future induction.
Rih will never be inducted. She doesn't have any respect or acclaim, or anything besides singles.
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My fav madonna is an inductee
I see beyonce being one in 25 years
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Originally posted by retromaury
My fav madonna is an inductee
I see beyonce being one in 25 years
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Spot on tbh.
Bey is already a legend, the next logical step would be her future induction.
Rih will never be inducted. She doesn't have any respect or acclaim, or anything besides singles. |
What are tomorrow lotto numbers? 
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LOL at you forgotten who is the head of the article, pressed much
Who else????
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I’m listening to Red as I type this and I feel a powerful urge to hand Taylor Swift a gold-plated gramophone. Random Access Memories is a paean to the big-tent pop albums of the past, but Red is an actual big-tent pop album of the present. Perhaps in 20 years, two French cyborgs will make an homage to Red that will win a Grammy.
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Not including Taylor when her picture is sitting at the top of the article
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I feel like this article seems to indicate that Taylor, Adele, and Rihanna are indeed the trinity of present music. (Bey originated in the 90s, so we'll exclude her). The other girls aren't even 'long shots.' 
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Beyoncé is obvious... the rest... not so sure.
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Originally posted by Teezy
Spot on tbh.
Bey is already a legend, the next logical step would be her future induction.
Rih will never be inducted. She doesn't have any respect or acclaim, or anything besides singles. |
Well thats interesting, cause the Grammys seem to think she could be eligible as well. 
http://www.grammy.com/news/grammy-in...and-jack-white
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Well, duh, in 25 years, all artists out today will be eligible. 
And she still won't be inducted...
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