Like a Prayer (album) one album in his or her career whose critical and commercial success becomes the artist's magic moment; for Madonna [...] "Like a Prayer" was. [Madonna] pushed onwards as an artist, using her creative wit to communicate on another level, musically." Kenneth G. Bielen, author of "The Lyrics of Civility: Biblical Images and Popular Music Lyrics in American Culture", wrote that with the album Madonna began to be seen as a serious artist; "Five years earlier, she was a dance-pop 'Boy-Toy'. With "Like a Prayer", she proved she was an artist who could think with more than her body". Thomas Harrison
Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) is a seven-disc, 142-track box set of popular music hits of the 1980s. Released by Rhino Records in 2002, the box set was based on the success of "", Rhino's box set covering the 1970s. Original release sets had a 3D rubber cover. Later releases had a flat, printed cover. "Like Omigod!" includes a 90-page booklet of cultural comment, a timeline for the decade, and liner notes for the tracks included in the set. As does "Have a Nice Decade", the tracks tend to