Rock star Courtney Love excoriated the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in an opinion piece, calling the music organization's nomination and induction practices 'sexist gatekeeping.'
Rock star Courtney Love excoriated the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in an opinion piece, calling the music organization's nomination and induction practices"sexist gatekeeping."
“Barely 8% of its inductees are female. The canon-making doesn’t just reek of sexist gate-keeping, but also purposeful ignorance and hostility,” she wrote. Love explained that this year's nominations of Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, Cyndi Lauper, Meg White of the White Stripes, and Gillian Gilbert of New Order are merely an"annual reminder of just how extraordinary a woman must be to make it into the ol’ boys club." She suggested these"legendary women" had to"cool their jets waiting to be noticed."
"It took the Rock Hall 30-plus years to induct Nina Simone and Carole King. Linda Ronstadt released her debut in 1969 and became the first woman to headline stadiums, yet she was inducted alongside Nirvana in 2014. Most egregiously, Tina Turner was inducted as a solo artist three decades after making the grade alongside her abuser, Ike," Love said.Love remarked that only nine of the 31 people on the nominating board are women.
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