Gay Marriage rights for "Rock and Roll" hall of fame inductee deciders

I have been told Madonna was inducted into the "Rock and roll" hall of fame. This didn't seem to get as much attention as past inductees, either because they are ashamed, or the powers that be snidely knew that it would upset fans of music such as myself. I'd rather not play right into their hands, if that indeed is their strategy, but there are thousands of bands that deserve to be there more than her, and inducting her is simply not fair to them. BANDS that worked hard to learn their instruments, write songs, and play thousands of thankless gigs for little to no money. The induction of Madonna is a slap in the face to those hardworking people. I don't know if you've ever been in a band, but I have. It's fun, but there is a lot of work and many expenses involved. And mine never even went anywhere. So to take a mediocre disco singer like Madonna and put her in the company of the greats and legends of the genre such as Elvis, Chuck Berry, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, the Beatles, Beach Boys and Byrds is simply vomit-inducing. (More like vomit inducting, if you know what I mean, he he).
Madonna is nothing more than a mediocre disco singer that was propped up by the awful network MTV. I suppose she is ALRIGHT if that is your kind of thing, but without MTV, she'd be waiting tables somewhere. I suppose you could say that about a lot of terrible performers, but with her it's especially true, because MTV emphasized the visual over the substance of the material. Hence the rise of glam-pop-metal like Poison. (Quick sidenote: in the late 80's, the critics thought Poison was the worst thing going, with headlines such as "there's no cure for Poison", etc., but compared to what's on MTV NOW, Poison seem like the Rolling Stones. Just to put it in perspective. Something to think about...) This environment of style over substance, with an emphasis on mediocre at best, sickeningly awful at worst music, with an audience that craved the lowest common denominator that was and is MTV, was the perfect storm that created Madonna.
I simply will never understand just WHY this MDS (mediocre disco singer) is considered talented, much less a "cultural force" of some kind. I've asked several girls, and gotten no satisfactory responses. They've grown up with her and are so brainwashed they can't remember a pre-Madonna time. They're hopeless. If I knew any of her remaining audience, gay men, I would ask them.
Naturally, the financial success of Madonna spurned record companies to find imitators. This is perhaps the one and only case where all the imitators are equal to, and in most cases, SURPASS the original. Firstly I'd like to mention ALISHA.



Her catchy and enjoyable "too turned on" is AT LEAST the equal, if not the better of anything Madonna did in her career. But no one knows Alisha. I hope that changes.



Next we have Taylor Dane. I don't sincerely think of her as an "imitator" -- she's not -- but I believe in the eyes of the music industry, she is. I believe she was marketed as a Madonna clone. But Taylor is a powerful singer with a richer voice. She was in a rock band, Felony, at first, and "tell it to my heart" was co-written by Seth Swirsky, a man known in powerpop circles as a talented guy and solo artist in his own right.

Every Country had its own Madonna -- Japan had Rebecca, England had Samantha Fox:




And I'm sure every other country had one or two...If you know of any, contact me and I'll add them. But I've saved my personal favorite for last. Martika, who is best known for the song "toy soldiers" and being on the show "Kids Incorporated" early in her career, is VASTLY more talented than Madonna. There is more heart and soul and emotion in the JAPANESE version of "toy soldiers" that she recorded than anything in Madonna's catalogue. She is another talented performer with her own style and merits that was seen by the industry as just another clone. This is a travesty and a shame.



So in the end, the music industry and Madonna created a monster -- many monsters -- but the disciples bested the teacher. However, this trend seems to have ended with the new generation of the cookie-cutter, MTV-sanctioned Madonna clone army like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson. Their intolerable ear poison is right back to where we started - bad music - so I suppose we've come full circle in the Madonna chain.
I don't know who decides who gets into the "Rock and Roll" hall of fame - after today I'll forever write it in quotes - but this shameful display has discredited them forever. It is clearly a corrupt organization who does not have a clear sense of who belongs there. Unfortunately that is the ONLY job of these deciders. Their poor judgement in this matter has shown they deserve to be fired. But perhaps they can console themselves the way they always do in times of trouble - by getting together in a big bed, listening to Madonna's "papa don't preach", breaking out the haagen-dazs and watching "sex in the city."

RECENTLY FOUND! Check out this guy's youtube video, he seems to have the same idea: