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Ahh, remember two days ago?
TheAcademy Award nominations had just been announced, providing us all with the perfect opportunity to get upset.
It was a glorious time, but the news cycle moves quickly, and so the outrage subsided.
Today, they announced their list of inductees for the Class of 2020.
Lets take a look at the biggest snubs and surprises.
On the other, the Hall has struggled with having significant female representation.
Of the ballots 16 nominated acts this year, only three had female members.
So a vote for Benatar is a step toward correcting that issue.
To boot, she has major name recognition, which also typically indicates likely success with the voters.
It seemed like she had everything going for her, so what happened?
And the winner has been inducted every single time.
After this year, we know the answer is a definitive no.
Electronic music shows up
Kraftwerk cant catch a break.
Both on their third nominations, Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails finally made the cut this year.
Maybe the voters will see that and vote them in.
Or as is usual for the Hall, things will continue to stay ridiculous.
Its common for them to disappear from the Halls site, as they prepare the special inductee pages.
You could determine this by manually typing in the nominees page URL into your web client.
If the page could not be found, theyre not an inductee.
Heavy metal will have to wait … again
The Hall hasa less-than-stellar relationship with heavy-metal artists.
Black Sabbath waited ten years after becoming eligible and were nominated eight times before induction.
Deep Purple had to wait 22 years!
If theres a group that hates the Hall the most, it might be heavy-metal fans.
And yet, this years ballot could have been interpreted as an olive branch to the community.
Judas Priest returned for a second nomination after missing out on the ballot last year.
Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, and Soundgarden all made the ballot for the very first time.
Ironically though, this amount of representation may have screwed the genres chances this year.
For whatever reason (perhaps Rufus lack of name recognition,) shes perennially overlooked.
To many, there was no way she wasnt getting in this year.
But if you know your music history, you know theres no Whitney without Chaka.
And of course in 1993, Whitney had a gigantic hit with her cover of Chakas Im Every Woman.
