Like a Prayer (song) that multiple times in history, black men have been punished for kissing or desiring white women. Grant believed this was where the racial equality message of the video came across as most poignant. On the contrary, when the curtain falls and the scene shifts to a smiling Madonna among the burning crosses, professor Maury Dean felt that another explanation was inevitable. Madonna portrays a successful heroine and thus the whole video becomes about female empowerment. The first live performance of "Like a Prayer" was on the 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour. She sang it wearing a dress that looked like
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