Eminem, Janet Jackson and extra snubbed for Songwriters Corridor of Fame
The inductees checklist for the 2025 Songwriters Corridor of Fame has been revealed – and doesn’t embody nominated acts like Eminem, Janet Jackson and extra.
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Final evening (January 22), the Songwriters Corridor of Fame unveiled the inductees for its Class of 2025 after asserting the nominees in November. Being inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame this 12 months are George Clinton, The Doobie Brothers, Ashley Gorley, Rodney Jerkins, Mike Love and Tony Macaulay.
Among the many artists who had been nominated again in November however didn’t make the lower are Eminem, Janet Jackson, Boy George, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, N.W.A., Bryan Adams and extra. A complete of 26 artists had been nominated, with solely six being chosen for induction.
The six inductees can be honoured on the 2025 Induction & Awards Gala in New York Metropolis in June.
2024’s inductees had been R.E.M., Timbaland, Steely Dan, Hillary Lindsey and Dean Pitchford, with Cindy Walker and Prince receiving posthumous inductions. SZA and Diane Warren additionally obtained particular awards.
In 2023, Jade, Snoop Dogg and Electrical Mild Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne led that 12 months’s class of Songwriters Corridor Of Fame inductees, alongside Gloria Estefan, Teddy Riley, Glen Ballard and Liz Rose.
In a three-star evaluate of Eminem’s newest album ‘The Demise of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)’, NME wrote: “Far more highly effective is ‘Short-term’, a genuinely shifting ode to his daughter, Hailie, which proves Marshall Mathers can say one thing that issues when he needs to.
“So, who killed Slim Shady? In bringing him again to the sunshine and displaying him up as irrelevant, maybe Eminem’s accomplished his previous pal in for good. OK, we get it – Shady was a stunning character. Now that he’s useless, how about getting some new materials?”
In different Eminem-related information, the rapper – who’s nominated for Greatest Rap Efficiency on the upcoming Grammys – has shared that he thinks Kendrick Lamar will doubtless take house all the seven awards that he’s nominated for: “Kendrick is gonna sweep that shit. He’s going to, and he ought to.”