The 2026 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Explained

There's a group of racial extremists who fellow a tenet of faith generally downplayed by mainstream media.  This group believes that white men are the greatest villains on earth. They believe that white men were the result of a botched experiment from the days of creation, the experiment conducted by a wicked deity.  They charge that the white man is guilty of cultural colonialism and they repeatedly declare that they find the white man guilty as charged.  These people believe that white men were given domination of the earth but that a time would come when, after seventy years, the white men would lose their domination of the earth and be condemned to a richly deserved downfall and be forced to pay for their sins by being forced to accept everything that is anathema to them before they would be finally wiped from the face of the earth.

These people are called . . . pop-music critics. 

Not an original thought, I concede - I read it in either Blender or Spin - but when you look at most of the non-rock-and-roll acts being nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (and Jethro Tull have been snubbed again) and you recall that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's board is dominated by  pop-music critics . . . 

. . .the list makes total sense.

Brought to you by the same people who inducted Madonna the second she became eligible two years before they inducted the Hollies, who had been eligible since 1964.

It's 2026 - seventy years after Elvis Presley became a star.

That is all.