No I’m not. Swift ain’t the anti-Madonna fashionwise or music wise.
Madonna invented the pop diva that still rules female music today. That is the simple truth.
Wake is wake. Good wake, bad wake, it’s still a wake. Don’t be like Wenner. His snooty BS attitude to metal and prog have kept deserving bands out of the hall for decades. Just cause you don’t like the effect Madonna has had on music doesn’t mean she hasn’t had a massive effect and shouldn’t be in the hall. You really cannot tell the story of rock and roll, especially women in rock, without Madonna. And that’s really what the deciding factor should be.
Name me ONE Madonna song that was innovative in a way that influenced one other singer. Madonna’s whole “Pop Diva” is all fashion, zero music. Now, personally, I liked Ray of Light and La Isla Bonita, but La Isla Bonita was simply a fun pastiche of older music, and Ray of Light did nothing that Cher hadn’t done several years earlier. Both were fun dance music. Neither were rock, and neither were ground-breaking. At most, Madonna was to synth pop what Bon Jovi was to hair metal and Tom Petty was to Chicken-Fried Rock. So if the ever create the Synth Pop Hall of Fame, I’ll be the first to suggest Madonna.