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Do you think 'Like a Prayer' will still be loved in the next 30 years?
The song is now 26 years old
and it still is loved and adored by millions, even non Madonna fans and has topped poll after poll as Madonna's best song.Whilst it certainly isn't Madonna's only "signature song" as she has so many nor is it her defining career moment, as again she has numerous iconic moments, do you think it will still be popular in the next 30 years? |
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Like a Prayer the song and album, should be remembered for all time...not just 30 more years....for me she hasn't bettered that period of her career.
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Like a Prayer the song and album, should be remembered for all time...not just 30 more years....for me she hasn't bettered that period of her career.
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Yes.
There are songs by The Beatles and Elvis that are close to being 50 years old, and are still being enjoyed today - even with younger people being introduced to their music. Music lives on. Likewise, I'm sure a lot of Madonna's 80s hits will still be enjoyed when they're close to being 50 years old. |
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Yes.
There are songs by The Beatles and Elvis that are close to being 50 years old, and are still being enjoyed today - even with younger people being introduced to their music. Music lives on. Likewise, I'm sure a lot of Madonna's 80s hits will still be enjoyed when they're close to being 50 years old. |
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What about her Ray of Light album? We were playing that at our little house party last saturday and everyone was saying how it still sounds fresh and trendy today. I love Power of Goodbye.
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Ray Of Light & Like A Prayer are fantastic.
However, *ducks for cover* American Life is her finest (if least commercial) album. |
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What about her Ray of Light album? We were playing that at our little house party last saturday and everyone was saying how it still sounds fresh and trendy today. I love Power of Goodbye.
Confessions On A Dancefloor will still be popular when its 50 years old. It's a bit like a really good film that you tend to watch whenever it's shown on TV, and you find yourself watching it year after year and still enjoy it yet all the time said film is getting older and older with time. Music is exactly the same. |
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No reason it won't be. It's probably her best song and she's an iconic star so of course it'll be remembered.
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I would say yes as Madonna is an icon and it's one of her best known songs.
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Ray Of Light & Like A Prayer are fantastic.
However, *ducks for cover* American Life is her finest (if least commercial) album. |
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I thought American Life was dreadful and not because of the title track. It was the production on the tracks that made the whole album sound dated before it even hit the shelves.
Even Like A Prayer (the original version) still sounds fresh in 2015 compared to tracks like Hollywood and Love Profusion. |
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The song is now 26 years old
and it still is loved and adored by millions, even non Madonna fans and has topped poll after poll as Madonna's best song.Whilst it certainly isn't Madonna's only "signature song" as she has so many nor is it her defining career moment, as again she has numerous iconic moments, do you think it will still be popular in the next 30 years? |
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What about her Ray of Light album? We were playing that at our little house party last saturday and everyone was saying how it still sounds fresh and trendy today. I love Power of Goodbye.
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Borderline and Into The Groove are her best songs. Like a Prayer is alright but not her best.
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Big Madonna fan never got the love for this song I was so happy she didnt performed it on the 2 rebel heart tour show i attended
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Providing the Madonna hate dies down - the older she gets - the more criticism she gets about her boyfriends, clothes, choreography, sex life she receives. It's fine for older male singers to have an active sex life with a bimbo and wear what they like......but not Madonna
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Is Like a Prayer even talked about that much anymore? The title track is to a certain extent, but the album itself is more of an afterthought. Sure, it sometimes appears on best of lists, but critics aren’t exactly falling over themselves to reassess it or talk about its influence and impact in the way they do other albums from the 1980s and other decades. I’d argue that it’s not even that influential nowadays. Taylor Swift cited it as one of the influences for 1989, but she’s the first person I’ve heard who has name-checked the album in years just like Adele was the first person in ages who cited Ray of Light as an inspiration. That’s the thing with Madonna. I think her no-nonsense attitude and reinvention influences people more than her music. Don’t get me wrong, some artists cite her music as an influence on their own (mainly pop stars), but hardly anyone of credibility and acclaim will.
Over the years, I’ve noticed that Madonna fans will claim that Like a Prayer was the first “grown-up” album released by a pop star. It wasn’t. In fact, I wouldn’t even call some of the songs on it mature. Religious themes were hardly new or original at that point, but Madonna has exhausted them over the years. Let’s be honest here, Like a Prayer was a long-time coming. Madonna started her career in 1983 and was releasing disposable teen pop music for about six years. She didn’t do anything remotely serious or credible until she was 31 years old. Kate Bush wrote her acclaimed debut album when she was still in her teens in the late 1970s. To claim that Like a Prayer was the first grown-up album in pop music is as ridiculous as the people who claim Erotica was the first album to touch on subjects like Aids and sex. And like every other era in Madonna's career, Like a Prayer was made up of winks and nods to other people's work. I do wonder if the woman is capable of creating anything that's 100% original. The mistake a lot of Madonna fans make is they dub her the most influential female artist just because she’s the highest selling. Record sales are just a barometer of success, not influence. I’d argue that someone like Joni Mitchell is more influential than Madonna. Many people from many different genres of music have cited her as an influence - rock, pop, jazz, electronica, dance, indie, classical, world music, blues, easy listening, bluegrass, country, etc. Madonna's influence isn't as vast as that, it’s primarily within the pop/dance field. True Blue has sold about 25 million copies worldwide, but Blue by Joni Mitchell has sold about a quarter of that. Which album do critics and performers hold in higher regard today? Blue. Despite its success in the 1980s, True Blue is rarely mentioned nowadays. Sure, radio sometimes plays songs from it, but the album is nothing more than a time capsule from a specific era. It’s the Baby One More Time of the 1980s. The same can be said about Like a Virgin. Nothing Madonna has released since the turn of Millennium is important. Successful? Yes, mostly, but none of it is particularly influential nor is it held in high regard. In fact, the same can be said for most of the music she has released from Erotica onwards. The Beatles sell millions of copies of their albums every year, but I doubt old Madonna albums sell millions of copies year in, year out. They seem to be popular for a period and then mostly fade away while the odd single remains in the public’s consciousness. How many people who bought Like a Virgin, True Blue and Like a Prayer on vinyl in the 1980s have bothered to buy it on CD later on? I would hazard a guess and say not that many. Their original copies are probably gathering dust in the attic or have gone to charity shops, car boots or in the bin. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac has sold over 15 million copies since 1997. A Madonna album has never done that, the sales of her albums are always within a short time frame. Her only real consistent seller is The Immaculate Collection, but even that slowed down years ago. The problem with Madonna is her music is as important as her celebrity status. The one supports the other. She wouldn't be as popular without the superficial and shallow stuff that has gone hand in hand with her career since the early 1980s. Someone like Kate Bush has never had to rely on controversy and gimmicks to sell music. She's never had to rely on frivolous things to mask a lack of talent. Madonna doesn't just feed off that stuff. Her career needs it in order to survive. She laid the foundation for the vacuous celebrity culture we have today. She was the precursor to all of these pop stars that can't sing but get by on what they're wearing, who they're dating and who’s producing their next album and writing their next hit. |
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It's a good pop song, nothing more, nothing less.
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and it still is loved and adored by millions, even non Madonna fans and has topped poll after poll as Madonna's best song.
