Rolling Stone tries to find out why some big names in music could not get into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2025
This year, the Rock Fame Hall will include names like Soundgarden, Outkast and The White Stripes – But some big names that were on the list of nominees were out, more notably Mariah Carey (For the third time!), Oasis and Phish. The information is from Rolling Stone.
Carey It is an undisputed pop legend; Oasis He recorded some of the biggest songs of the 1990s and is about to embark on the most anticipated meeting tour in years; and the Phish Yeah, well, the Phish – A band that created their own universe, playing in arenas for decades. So what happened?
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Nowweekly podcast of Rolling Stone, Andy Greene joins the presenter Brian Hiatt to comment on this year’s chosen ones (which also include Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Salt-N-Pepa and Warren Zevon) and the absences. Throughout the conversation, they try to understand the logic behind the vows of the jurors of the Hall of Fame. (To hear the full episode, go to your favorite podcast provider, listen to Apple podcasts or Spotifyor squeeze the play above.)
Oasis fits into two categories that sometimes seem to face resistance within the Hall of Fame. First, they are British – the Smiths never entered, and not even the combination of New Order and Joy Division In a single candidacy helped these bands. Second: their commercial peak was in the 1990s. Despite the entry of the Soundgarden this year, other essential names of the decade as SMASHING PUMPKINS, Weezer and Pavementamong others, they were never even appointed.
As regards Mariah Carey, Greene suggests that the problem is in older voters, who may not understand their importance, as well as jurors who seek some kind of “spirit of rock & roll”, even in artists who are not of the genre – he heard at least one juror that Carey somehow does not convey this essence, on the contrary, for example, Outkastwhich entered this year. Maybe Carey Finally release the lost alternative rock album to which she has already referred in another episode of the podcast, she can beat this barrier.
Already Phish It may have been harmed by the division between those who love and who hate the band, besides their certain opacity for those who are not a fan. Unlike its most direct predecessors, GRETEFUL DEADthe band never had a song that became a radio classic, and the chances of late success, such as “Touch of Gray”, They seem small. That said, if we follow the example of bands like the Rusha well -done documentary that humanizes members can be the key to overcoming the skepticism of voters.
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Source: Rollingstone

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