Courtney Love Calls Out the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame

Courtney Love is prepared for the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame to begin recognizing ladies and other people of colour. The “Doll Components” singer wrote a scathing op-ed on the topic for The Guardian on March 17. In her essay, she famous that ladies make up barely eight % of the inductees, whereas the statistics for folks of colour are roughly the identical. POPSUGAR reached out to reps for the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame for touch upon Love’s remarks, however didn’t obtain a direct response.

“If the Rock Corridor isn’t prepared to have a look at the methods it’s replicating the violence of structural racism and sexism that artists face within the music trade, if it can’t correctly honor what visionary ladies artists have created, innovated, revolutionized and contributed to fashionable music — properly, then let it go to hell in a purse,” Love wrote.

All through the essay, Love notes the quite a few instances iconic feminine singers like Kate Bush, who reached new heights of fame in 2022 because of her music’s inclusion in “Stranger Issues,” and Chaka Khan have been ignored by voters. The explanation why they have been frequently handed over appears apparent to the 58-year-old: the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame stays a boys membership.

“Why are ladies so marginalized by the Rock Corridor? Of the 31 folks on the nominating board, simply 9 are ladies,” she famous.

This yr’s group of nominees embrace a report variety of ladies. Amongst them are Bush, Missy Elliott, Cyndi Lauper, Sheryl Crow, and Meg White of The White Stripes. However as Love famous, a few of these ladies, like Bush, have been ready for his or her flip for years.

Whereas it will be straightforward to dismiss the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame as irrelevant, Love writes that it stays a moneymaker for inductees, in addition to a assure that their work will not fade into obscurity. “You’ll be able to write the Rock Corridor off as a ‘boomer tomb’ and argue that it’s constructing a totem to its personal irrelevance,” she added. “Why ought to we care who’s in and who isn’t? However as scornful as its inductions have been, the Rock Corridor is a bulwark towards erasure, which each feminine artist faces whether or not they lengthy for the honour or need to spit on it. It’s nonetheless sport recognizing sport, historical past made and marked.”

Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde shared her ideas on the Rock Corridor on Twitter, which Love retweeted. “I do not even need to be related to it,” she wrote partially, earlier than including that it “has completely nothing to do with rock and roll.”

The Gap frontwoman added, “ARTISTS! Beef off the desk. Principals b4 personalities! @chrissiehynde (blew my world right into a rainbow 🌈 in 79 #GOAT ♥️) TBC. I’d not settle for, do not want! @rockhall. BRO it is not 4 me I communicate. THAT BOARD NEEDS A HOSE DOWN so ladies & poc can FEED THEIR KIDS. Not simply Bon Jovi.”