Madonna 1989: Like To Prayer

On 1989 to the age of 31 Madonna released her fourth album in study, Like to Prayer, the third consecutive one to catch up the summit of classifies American. From the album they come extracted 6 singles. The album contains Like to Prayer, Express Yourself, Cherish, Keep It Together, Dear Jessie, top the 20 hit Oh Father but also Love Song in which Madonna sings with Prince. With Like to Prayer Madonna she experiments various drafts musical, with incursions in the rock, the R&B, and the gospel, and comes considered from the critics best album of her career . The album sell 15 million copies and is awarded 4 platinum discs in the USA. The Like piece to Prayer becomes sold time shortly the single one more than Madonna in years eighty with beyond 4 million copies. The musical video of the piece comes sourly criticized, also from the Vatican and the catholics, because judged for her “religios” content (in the Madonna video kisses the statue of a color saint that spirit, appears with the sacred ones stigmata and dances in front of of a cross that burns).

Shortly before the escape of the album, Madonna had signed a contract for five million dollars for the advertising campaign of the Pepsi, having turned an evocative one spot (to which Like to Prayer it made from sound track), in which the star she recalled own infancy. Because of the scandal provoked from the video Pepsi decides of rescindere the contract with Madonna, cancelling the spot in programming and refusing the sponsorship of the Blond Ambition Tour (that it went instead to the Pioneer); for against, during a passage of the video of Oh famous Father on a wall a maxi-poster advertizing of the Coke It is strained, main adversary of Pepsi.

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