Like a Prayer

An example we looked was Madonna’s music video and the lyrics. This was band in the UK before and we looked at this because it was a good example on how her message in her lyrics and in her music video came out and gave some wrong ideas to the viwers. When you look at the lyrics of her song, the chorus:
When you call my name it’s like a little prayer
I’m down on knees, I wanna take you there
In the midnight hour I can feel your power
Just like a prayer you know I’ll take you there

It was a very fine example becasue Modonna's 'Like a prayer' music video at the time that it was released it was a huge hit on the music charts. Still today 'Like a Prayer' is a very well known song. At this time, it was the centre of controversy with parent groups, church groups, mainstream media and the government.

In the opening scences of the video you see Madonna witness a crime and a black man coming to help the women just in the time when the cops get there. The black man is arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The black man was totally innocnet and infact wanted to help the women.
So Modonna goes to the church where she prayers to the black Jeusus, which also looks like the hero earlier. Jesus was an innocnet and sin free person wrongly accused of crimes that he did not commit. This is the connection that Madonna was trying to establish with the black Jesus.
When Madonna dozes off on the church bench she has a dream of being in haven and then she is infront of burning crosses. Burning crosses are usally synonymous with the KKK. The media and the church thought that she was promoting the KKK, which is one of the reasons they band her music video in the UK. But Madonna was trying again to establish the assult on innocence and the content of the burning crosses and the black Jesus fits in.