FIRST TIME LISTENING TO | Madonna - Like A Prayer
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I apologize in advanced if this video may be hard to watch. I was very tired after helping a friend move and was not visually aware of some things that I should've caught while reacting. It is what it is though
No worries
I guess you get a pass lol. This was the craziest reaction to the video and/or song ever witnessed.
This song is at #55 of the 500 greatest song of ALL time Published by Rolling Stone.
Screw that list as Rollingstone has been botching its best lists in recent years. This should've been in the top 10 of all time.
@@carlheese YES
The video is about structural racism, at the beginning of the video we see she running with the sound of police in the background, that's when she witnessed the murder that appears after in the video.
She hides in the church and fell sleep there, and in the dream the saint comes to life, encouraging her to come out and testify in defense of the innocence of the black guy who was unjustly arrested.
The burning crosses ✝️🔥 are a reference to that clan that wears white clothes and preaches supremacy, I don't want to mention their names but you know who are they… It is a very symbolic video, where Madonna used her privileges and popularity to talk about a very important subject.
Thanks for the extra info!! I caught some of that
Well said
ALL HAIL THE QUEEN OF POP!
Madonna reigns when it comes to placing human injustices in the forefront: racism through police brutality and the false representation in organized religion. Equal rights for the LGBTQIA community, human sexuality, for gun control and for ageism. She has always been shunned by the public for whatever reason. Yet by refusing to give in and standing her ground for who she is, makes her the icon she is!
G'day it's Steven from down under again
A very provocative and meaningful music video that I recall at the time was poorly received by certain groups within the community, the types of groups that like to misread things and wrongly be outraged without understanding the subject matter.
This was one of Madonna's most successful hits worldwide and is undoubtedly one of the all time biggest hits in pop music history.
There's a lot to take in and comprehend but the more you listen to it the more you like it, I've been enjoying this song for over thirty five years and I never get tired of it.
ALL HAIL THE QUEEN OF POP!
Madonna is such a prolific and legendary artist. She was/is as big (back then) as Taylor Swift is now and she (Madonna) did it all without social media. I remember hearing about this video and the controversy over it. She has been such an amazing ally to SO many groups. I wish today's young people would recognize just how hard Madonna fought for rights, for AIDS, for the LGBTQ community and other communities. She's a phenomenal human being.
Im a huge Madonna fan. This is her best song and best video in my opinion. Also, the album Like a Prayer is also her best work. Its also her favorite song of hers. She's the highest and best selling female artist of all time. Guinness Book of World Records.
Saint Porres, the patron saint of mixed races is the Saint in the video. The saint is crying from the injustice that he knows she is feeling. Actually there are two parts of the video mixed into one. After the Saint leaves she falls into a deep sleep to find clarity. So she wasn't doing anything in the church but dreaming, and when it goes to the other part she is still dreaming. Then she wakes up and realizes what she must do. Confess and let them know the scene she saw, and the black man was innocent. This is sort of a BLM before anyone in the artistry world would go against the grain and put out there. This is why Madonna is the Queen of Pop, She never cared about the industry, but instead used her artistic integrity to speak out on many issues.
You should watch her live performance in Paris for this song. It's amazing ❤
I’m sorry, but the minute this guy started talking and caused me to roll my eyes a million times, then he as a black man,has no clue what burning crosses represent, I’m just out. There is zero deep thinking for this dude completely.
😂😂 it took me a while to notice what the crosses were. I was tired asf so I wasn’t really thinking
@@oofbeet - OH, gotcha, that makes sense. It’s important to note for an artist of Madonna’s caliber to make a statement about racism during that period, cannot be underestimated as it could have been a career killer, just show’s the balls this woman has for standing up for the marginalized. She has an amazing 40 yr career for you to get to know. :)
Madonna is the Queen of Pop 🎉❤
The song and video was both a debate with Madonna's own strict catholic upbringing and a statement against racism like racial profiling, KKK (the burning crosses), white woman and black saint etc. Kissing feet and bleeding eyes are part of catholic mysticism, like the stigmata in the hands. The video offenended many, many people, especially fundamentalistic christians and the Vatican wanted to excommunitcate Madonna. Pepsi canceled its sponsorship for the upcoming tour and draw back the harmeless commercial used for Pepsi's advertising campaing (however Madonna could keep the 5 Mill $). One year later in 1990 Pope John Paull II called Madonnas Blond Ambition Tour "one of the most satanic shows in the history of humanity".
Probably the best pop song in music history!
The incendiary imagery of burning crosses featured in Madonna's "Like a Prayer" music video evokes the historically oppressive symbolism associated with the Ku Klux Klan, once the preeminent hate group globally. This organization was notorious for its intimidation tactics, including the placement of flaming crosses on the properties of African-American individuals as a method of terror designed to enforce racial segregation. The video itself stands as a potent artifact, highlighting the gravity of these actions. It is regrettable that the depth of your comprehension does not extend to the profound significance embedded within these visuals. This oversight underscores a broader issue: the nuances of intent and interpretation can often become obscured, leading to a disconnection between action and understanding.
See I knew about the burning crosses but I was just not aware at the time of recording. I was tired asf helping a friend move and didn't even rest before recording. I hate that I didn't speak on it at the time but it is what it is
@@oofbeet don’t feel bad most people have no idea what it even means. I’ve never seen a single person that has reviewed that music video that understands the significance of the burning crosses. I have never witnessed it before, and the majority of the individuals who are responding to the videos are African Americans who are unaware of the significance of burning crosses. It might resurface if you all choose to overlook it. I sincerely hope that won't be the case.
The most shallow video reaction I have seen for Like a Prayer
Yeah I was pretty tired when I reacted to it
It’s frustrating watching you react to this video 😱 😂
Definitely lol. I was tired as heck after helping a friend move and did not rest before recording this. I wasn't really there (headspace) and should've just waited to record this but it is what it is
its frustrating watching ALL his M reactions. he clearly does NOT get her. starting out calling her 'granny' in the 1st few vids didnt help!.after a few more attempts this will be my last shot at his reactions.
i think he'd do better with safe saccharine pop stars like, umm... maybe paula abdul or someone equally banal.
im over this channel & all the ridiculous pearl clutching.
@@FranklySpeaking. it’s not really pearl clutching. I’m reacting to it because I was asked to since I didn’t know who she was on The Weeknd video. My reactions aren’t meant for everyone :)
Reactions are also based on opinion. Madonna is cool & and done many things that I’m now getting to know about her. Take my reactions with a grain of salt because you won’t get the best reaction out of someone like me
Classic
Wow every thing flew over his head .
Hi oofbeat. Like you, it took me a while to get this video. I knew about the song as a kid in the 90’s but once I delved back in the video, I realized how iconic and important the video is. It’s very abstract because it’s all a dream.
I really appreciate your plunge into her discography. So many of her videos speak the truth and she has the courage to keep going.
I’ve been catching your Madonna reactions and appreciate your honest, albeit uninformed, opinions. I know this song and video was so far before your time but you cannot imagine how controversial this video was. I know you said it had a racial component but literally the whole video dealt with racism. This was BLM way before anyone really knew it was a thing. Most of it was a dream sequence that led her to do the right thing. In this case she was telling the cop that he was innocent and setting him free. Not bailing him out…lol. Also the significance of the burning crosses cannot be emphasized enough. It is (or was) probably the most visible form of racism in the 50’s and 60’s and perpetrated by the KKK. Unfortunately it still exists in similar forms today usually carried out by white supremacists and neo-nazis. The burning cross was the most offensive and powerful racist symbol that existed, especially to Christians and Blacks. It was used to intimidate and terrify black families usually when they tried to move into “white neighborhoods”. The cross was set on fire in the families’ front yard in the middle of the night by a bunch of hooded and robed men with the intent of driving that family out. If the family stood their ground, it usually resulted in a lynching or some other horrendous form of hate. Finally, the fact that this video was put out by arguably the most famous female pop star in the world not only taking on this topic but kissing a black man/saint as well, had people loosing their shit!! This was only 20 years after the Civil Rights movement. Sorry about the length of this post and the “lecture”. Please don’t take it as any kind of disrespect. It was hard to fathom how any person, black or white, would not know this particularly awful time of US history. And you have not been the only one. A lot younger people viewing this video also don’t have a clue. As far as it being a “play” I think it was just a different way of ending the video. Music videos were in their infancy back in ‘84.
I should’ve reacted to this when I wasn’t as tired as I am now. I been up since this morning helping a friend move and came straight to the video without sleep. I appreciate this post though and I thank you for informing me more on this video
I fully understand that seen now, 35 years later, the video turns out to be something strange and with a somewhat slow pace. And even more if it is the first time you see it, tired and asleep, and without knowing the story, as the fans we know it perfectly and we tell it to anyone who wants to listen to us. But this video, 35 years ago, caused a stir that has not been repeated in the history of pop How to offend all the intolerant of 🇺🇸 in just five minutes. Madonna surprises and provokes; that's part of her job. But minor artists who have not seen the power of permanence or the influence of the Queen of Pop simply press our buttons on a superficial level, without having much to say or leaving us with a lot to chew. Once the noise disappears, you can savor the artistic value and meaning of Madonna's work. At the heart of this legendary clip, under all its theatricalism, is a message about civil rights that has not lost any of its relevance three decades later. "Like a Prayer" deserves its reputation as one of the best music videos of all time. In its intense 5 minutes, we witness a group assault on a woman and her murder at the hands of that group of whites, the unjust imprisonment of the black man who tries to help her, stigmas in Madonna's hands, her ecstasy with a black saint and, an image for the history of pop: Madonna dancing and singing this song in front of burning crosses. And there's the core. The church is the least, although as has always happened in history, they sided with the oppressor and joined the boycott of the artist and whistleblower. "I knew we were pressing some big buttons, but I underestimated the influence and intolerance of the fundamentalist religion and racism in this country and in the world," says director Mary Lambert. Then Pepsi would come and that is that apart from the crosses of the Ku Klux Klan, Madonna burned the foundations of a society that was and continues to be racist. The images of Madonna between burning crosses symbolize the absolute transgression of popular culture in pursuit of its political significance and is, with high probability, the most sagacious anti-racist manifesto that a white pop artist has ever devised.
At the end of the video, the church is revealed as a prison, and the prison in turn is revealed as a theater. The moral of the story: everyone is a stage, and some things never change
This one is going crazy sibs
The video is directed and shot like a fluid, vivid dream. The fast transitions has nothing to do with the quality of the production "back then. " The burning crosses are of course a direct reference to the racist Ku Klux Klan.
Yes, the video is both a dream and a play.
This was the biggest hit of 1989 worldwide. In my country (Spain) even the stones know this song.
This was one of her greatest songs. Please watch the video a couple of more times without pausing it.
Definitely!
Her 4th best selling single according to rolling stone and the UA-cam channel TOPSIFY has it as the best music video of all time. The 2 minute pepsi commercial was released worldwide and viewed by 250 to 500 million.
The song and the video are two completely different things. The song is a mystical poem, mystical poems depict love for God as a romantic and passionate love (mystical poetry goes back to the 13th century). The video on the other hand is about racial profiling, it's like Black Lives Matter way before Black Lives Matter, when it wasn't a popular movement. The song and the video come together with the burning crosses scene (which talks about religious ecstasy but also about the KKK), representing a poem by mystical poet Saint John of The Cross called "Living Flame of Love" where he talks to God as his lover. And also the song and video come together in the scene where Madonna kisses the black saint at the church (one of the most controversial images of the 20th century). And at the end you can see that the black man racially profiled by the police takes the place of the black saint, and the police station takes the place of the church. That's when Madonna's character recognizes the meaning of the religious mythology in a real life event, and that's when she knows what to do, which is coming forward for justice.
Madonna was excommunicated by the Vatican because of this video.
Really great explanation! I wish the millenniums would understand the context and the impact it had when it was released!
@@glauco78millennials grew up on this and indeed get it. Older millennials, born as early as 1981, are a massive part of Ms fan base having literally grown up with her. I know what you're trying to say just the millennial part is incorrect. This millennial saw this video on MTV a thousand times and snuck into the theater with friends to watch truth or dare at 10 yrs old and life was changed forever lol.
This song has become Madonna's most iconic song even with her vast catalog of songs including epics like Vogue and Into The Groove. I remember in 1989, people who didn't like Madonna loved this song. And today it's been sung on music competitions like The Voice and XFactor even though it's not really a "vocalist's" song.
Regarding the video, many appreciate it as it opened a lot of discussion regarding structural racism, something I don't believe any other artist before Madonna had openly presented in their work. This is why a lot of people appreciate the video and probably connect to the song. But that was Madonna's forte, blasting the doors down of a lot of controversial topics that many, especially Americans, felt very uncomfortable with.
Yeah the more I dive into her past, the more I learn about everything she spoke about.
The crosses represent the overwhelming passion for Jesus who died on the cross. Now it means something else, like the message she is sending out. This video and her Blonde Ambition Tour were sponsored by Pepsi, who dropped her after watching the video and fearing a boycott of Pepsi. Just recently Pepsi did a segment basically apologizing for doing that to her.
Young folks watching these older videos can't relate with the standards in society at the time. So the controversy over a piece like this was quite progressive for the era.
Where to start😂😅. Well, this is the first time ive seen someone leaving indiferent or clueless after watching this video. First, i was kind of shocked to see that you didnt know about the burning crosses, and the kkk clan, they were responsable for some of the most horrible crimes against black people back in the 50s, and i really mean horrible, i watched this for the 1st time back in 89 when i was just a latin american kid, and i knew about the kkk. So that alone speaks about a social tabu, even more in those days when racism was not condemned as now. Second, up until that moment, the visual language of every female (or even male) artist never included anything related with racism, sex, religion, homosexuality, etc. What this woman did in that time in history was just impossible. Music videos in those days were almost childish, nodody wanted to even touch anything remotely related with politics, or anything important really. I remember it was global news, even here in Chile, so far away from the US. The like a prayer album was ok, but it was the video that changed the public opinion about Madonna forever, and made people wonder for the first time in history about the role of a pop female artist in society. In fact, sadly, so many years later, the death of George Floyd and the Black lives matter protests reminded me about one of the many messages within this music video. In the end, this video, at least this one, is one of those rare cases in wich the artist presents a piece of visual that acts as a painting, cause it is up to you and your own experience of the world and life, the interpretation youll get from it. But believe me, this video shacked the earth and changed a lot of things forever.
PD: if you want to see good stuff you can watch (without reactions) Blood of eden and Digging in the dirt from Peter Gabriel, Freedom 90 from George Michael, directed by David Fincher, All is full of love from Bjork, directed by Chris Cunningham, Bedtime story from Madonna, directed by Mark Romanek, and Oh Father, directed also by David Fincher.
(WITHOUT REACTIONS) LMAOO yeah no Imma definitely react to these and I wish you would read the comment I pinned. I knew about the KKK & didn't brush on the topic as I was VERY tired after helping a friend move into her new place :)
React to "bedtime story" one of the most expensive music videos ever made
When it comes to MADONNA'S music videos...most of the time the lyrics dont necessarly follow the story in the video. This video was so people can see racism and the fact that religion also has us locked up with the narrative they want us to believe. Inter racial couples ( Madonna kissing the Black Jesus ) a Black Jesus , omg the church went all crazy on her. The Burning crosses, MADONNA KNOWS HOW TO MAKE YOU LISTEN....one way or another she will get her message across.
This was the first reaction video of yours that I've ever watched. I am stunned by how indifferent your reaction was. Never react again when you are so tired, that your brain is on autopilot. It makes you appear to be mentally compromised.
Awe yeah definitely lmao but the video was recorded and wasn’t gonna redo it to fake a reaction :) I just take the punches and move on
This should be held up as an example of completely missing the point 😅
😂😂 big facts lmao. Read the pinned comment though
Yeah, I think you’re too young to understand the gravity and importance of this video. This was 35 years ago, when racism ( even the mention of it along with sexuality and religion was taboo) Rolling stone called it as close to art as pop music can get. You have to look beyond the dated editing and filming - it’s an important commentary on justice and sexuality. Be well
Thank you
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Its all a dream dude that's why it seems to not make sense. Its your first listen so dont expect to like it immediately but this is one of her most beloved iconic song. A bonafide worldwide hit which nowadays even with Taylor's popularity cant even be compared.
THANK YOU for understanding that this is my first listen! Yeah I'll listen to it again without the video and maybe that'll help
@@oofbeet Hey I was a fan back then and I too wasn't sure if I liked it coz it's so different. Nothing like it to this day. No other song can compare really because of the unusual shift in tempo which isn't supposed to work but it does. 3 weeks at number 1 as a single and her longest number 1 album. This was another new era of many to come in her illustrious 40 year career. Continue on this path and you'll realize why she's the Queen of Pop.
Essa música e muito importante pra pessoas negras . Madonna luta por nós . As cruzes simboliza a kkk
Not Dan Schneider 💀💀💀
Was waiting for someone to notice that joke
Someone needs to be educated but then once a peasant always a peasant!
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Excommunicated by the Catholic Church after this lmao
😂😂😂 best comment of the day
How is it racism?? He was the only one there with a woman who was just stabbed....of course you would take him into custody...keep in mind Most of this Video was a DREAM, she fell asleep on the church bench
Ok, straight men reacting to Madonna songs are always disappointing. But here i am given him some views 😂. 😘
I appreciate it lmao 😜
@@oofbeet and, btw, i like u!
This guy is a joke. Obviously this is not Madonna’s target market. He goes into more profound things like Cardi B.
It's really not lol. I was told to learn more about Madonna and now we're here
@@oofbeet some people should stay ignorant about things and this is the right example.
@@Arnoldego “nah… imma do my own thing” ~Miles Morales
@@oofbeet yeah! I would say, limit yourself to banalities and you will be fine!
honestly I enjoy the negativity lol. I see how serious Madonna fans are and I will take that in to consideration when doing another reaction video of hers. Have a great day
Get a grip lol
Grip has been got
If you don't interrupt the video every moment to talk, you would be able to understand what it's about...
Welp videos get blocked when I don't pause so it's either that or I cut random parts of the vid out :) Also read the pinned comment
All about racism
Yurr
" No, no I'm not really happy with that song " and you don't half let your audience know it!
You dissed it from start to finish, maybe less talk during and more taking in what you are looking at, might help.
As a reaction channel you need to pause it or you get copyrighted so I have to. And I always roast people in my reactions. That’s part of my style lol
@@oofbeet
I've been watching reaction videos for years, you don't need to point out the need to pause or why, as for always roasting people in your reactions, well that might account for the amount of subscribers you have.
I don't know of anyone who watches a reaction video of their favorite artists to see them getting roasted, what are you thinking?
Im thinking that people like you need to chill and stop being so serious all the time. Everyone needs a good laugh from time to time. If you go around life constantly serious then we would be in Gotham
@@oofbeet
People like me?
That comment right there says a lot more about your personality than it does mine.
It's called criticism, I never imagined you would be so Thin-Skinned.
I'm done with this now, I wouldn't want to permanently scar that fragile ego of yours.
Take some time and do some self reflection pal :) I'm just a reaction channel. Sorry that I hurt your feelings
Sadly, your reaction, along with perhaps your comprehension level is not very deep.
Yurr
Please don’t react to great songs when you’re tired.
your simple intelligence makes me worried about the next generation. stop reacting on what you have no clue on, and keep liking those swiftie posts.
You should actually think different about that. You should be happy that I'm taking the time to learn about Madonna and everything else revolving around her. Sorry this video upsets you but it is what it is