Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducts John Mellencamp, Disses Donna Summer

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Yes Mellencamp No Donna

2008’s inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced today, and there’s a bit of a disturbing (if not entirely surprising) trend here. See if you can spot it:

Inductees

Somebody remind me what the point of this Hall is? And nothing against any of the inductees, but if the Hall is going to marginalize hip-hop and disco then why even nominate them? Well, if the losers have a party I totally want to go to that one instead.

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