Like a Prayer
It's from 1989, before you were born.
- Artist
- Madonna
- Genre
- Pop
- Released
- 1989
- Note
- her most acclaimed album
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About
As of 2026, it's 37 years old.
Like a Prayer is Madonna at her most ambitious and most controversial — the title track paired gospel choirs and religious imagery with a video featuring burning crosses and a saint come to life, which promptly cost her a massive Pepsi sponsorship deal and delighted her enormously. She'd grasped that scandal was the most reliable promotional tool she had.
Beyond the controversy, it's one of her finest albums, with 'Express Yourself' and the soaring title song showing real artistic depth.
Bold, provocative, and genuinely great, Like a Prayer is the album where Madonna proved she could court maximum controversy and make some of her best music doing it.
