{"id":17487,"date":"2022-03-03T11:49:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=17487"},"modified":"2022-03-03T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:50:19","slug":"this-day-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2022\/03\/this-day-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"THROWBACK THURSDAY &#8211; MADONNA\/ LIKE A PRAYER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Madonna. What did you do this time?\u00a0 That&#8217;s just me saying what so many others probably were saying at the time.\u00a0 Madonna was and still is known for doing and saying things that will get people talking.<\/p>\n<p>Today in music we remember that day in 1989 when Madonna got people all riled up over a video.<\/p>\n<p>Just one day after the song &#8220;Like A Prayer&#8221; made it&#8217;s debut in a 2-minute Pepsi commercial, the video hits MTV and people get UP-SET.<\/p>\n<p>We learned early that Madonna likes to shock and nothing seems to be off limits.\u00a0 She pushed her limits here and ended up losing a major endorsement deal with Pepsi.<\/p>\n<p>In this video Madonna is seen witnessing a crime, kissing a black man, and dancing in front of burning crosses.\u00a0 People weren&#8217;t having it and threatened to boycott Pepsi.<\/p>\n<p>Pepsi caved and dropped any association with Madonna, but let her keep the $5 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Madonna made out just fine.\u00a0 Anybody she offended didn&#8217;t seem to be fans of her to begin with.\u00a0 And MTV loved it because more and more people watched to see the video for themselves.\u00a0 Radio stations added the song to their playlists and the song ended up going to number one, becoming one of the biggest songs of 1989.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/79fzeNUqQbQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oh Madonna. What did you do this time?\u00a0 That&#8217;s just me saying what so many others probably were saying at the time.\u00a0 Madonna was and still is known for doing and saying things that will get people talking. Today in music we remember that day in 1989 when Madonna got people all riled up over","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":15984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5215,5214,1348,838,5216],"class_list":["post-17487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-5215","tag-like-a-prayer","tag-madonna","tag-pepsi","tag-this-day-in-music"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 23:19:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2022\/03\/this-day-in-music\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17491,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions\/17491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}