rock and roll hall of fame
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mtaylor-54 — 16 years ago(April 05, 2010 08:16 AM)
I fully agree that Donna deserves to be in the HOF ASAP.
However, too many people get upset over what they deem rock-n-roll is and isn't.
First off, I wish the Hall would just change its name to "The Music Hall of Fame" so the whole "she/he/they is/aren't rock-n-roll & therefore don't deserve to be in the Hall" nonsense.
The Hall has ALL types of music & singers inducted. Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country, Pop, Disco, Rap.get what I'm saying?? And of course I realize that Rock & other genres of music bleed into one another depending on artist inspiration.
Donna deserves to be inducted.but she is far more known & associated w/Disco music than Rock. And that's NOTHING for her or her fans to be ashamed of. Disco music fully influenced the dance music that followed in the 80's and helped shape the dance music of the 90's including Hip Hop.
People can diss disco all they want but it was just what the people needed at the time that it broke out into mainstream popularity and Donna Summer is considered the Queen of Disco by many people of a certain generation! -
buby1987 — 16 years ago(April 05, 2010 08:10 PM)
Disco is great, one of the greatest genres ever. Being the Queen of Disco is a great achievement. But Donna also showed her versatility, especially in the 80's with The Wanderer, in which she did some flat-out New Wave and Hard Rock singing and sang much better than most rock singers.
You're right, it should be called "The Music Hall of Fame." Good music is good music, whatever the genre. -
WarpedRecord — 15 years ago(April 12, 2010 05:26 PM)
I totally agree. Donna had an enormous influence on the pop and rock culture in the late '70s by bringing disco to the mainstream, and her "Wanderer" album is an eclectic delight that should have been a bigger hit.
Honestly, I think too many people are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (won't name names here, unless you ask), but there's no question in my mind that Donna belongs there. She embodies the spirit of rock 'n' roll in dancing shoes. -
jefgg — 12 years ago(May 31, 2013 02:52 PM)
Donna Summer was posthumously inducted on April 18, 2013 into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. It would have been nice if she had been alive to accept the honor. I don't know why they waited so long. Summer wasn't really a rock artist. But the Hall Of Fame isn't only for rock. There are artists from several other genres there. It should be renamed the Rock And Pop Hall Of Fame.