Rolling Stone has released a new list ranking the 200 greatest singers of all time, and fans are having their say on what they see as a snob extraordinaire.
The list excludes all-time greats like Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Dionne Warwick and Johnny Mathis, with one exclusion in particular that seems like a titanic mistake: Celine Dion.
Rolling Stone tried to anticipate the reaction to some of the omissions by saying in the introduction that it was a “Greatest Singers” list, not a “Greatest Voices” list.
“The talent is impressive; genius is transcendent,” the editors wrote.
Fans of Dion – a five-time Grammy winner who postponed her tours last month after revealing she suffers from a rare neurological disorder called stiff person syndrome – took to social media to protest:
