Mdonna seemed so ballsy, so new and fresh and exciting - who of today's female singers can you say that about? The music video was a mimicry of Marilyn Monroe's performance of the song " Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" from the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. An emotional moment occurred in the recording studio when Madonna covered the 1978 Rose Royce song " Love Don't Live Here Anymore".

Back in 1984, not even I knew that this existed as I live in Europe, we had no internet, no CDs, no files.In France, the album debuted at number five on the French Albums Chart on October 6, 1985, staying there for eight weeks, then descending down the chart. With the video, scholars noted Madonna's portrayal of a sexually independent woman, the symbolism of the appearance of a man with lion's mask to that of Saint Mark, [47] and compared the eroticism of the video to the vitality of the city of Venice. Nowadays we see Miley Cyrus stick out her tongue - for the millionth time that day - and we think: put it away, love, we've seen it all before. Building on the success of her first album, Like a Virgin was released in 1984 and featured contributions from former members of the legendary Disco group Chic, in the form of bassist Bernard Edwards and drummer Tony Thompson. Michael Paoletta from Billboard commented that the songs on the album sustain a "fevered dance-rock momentum".

We all teased our hair, started wearing lacy fingerless gloves and footless tights, slapped on the bangles, and put so many Crucifixes around our neck it's a wonder that my generation don't have permanent spinal problems from the effort of holding our heads up. International Piracy Involving Intellectual Property" ( 99th United States Congress; Second Session, March 31, 1986).

We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved. It was certified two times platinum by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) for shipment of 600,000 copies. Five singles were released from the album, including Madonna's first US number-one " Like a Virgin" and her first UK number-one " Into the Groove", the latter of which was introduced on the 1985 international reissue of the album. This is one of the best albums that Madonna ever released, and with it she inspired a generation of young women to be who they wanted to be, to reach for the stars and not to let anyone tell you not to try. While not a substantial musical departure from Madonna's first album, she felt that the material from Like a Virgin was stronger.

However, Rodgers initially felt that the song did not have a good enough hook and was not suitable for Madonna, but subsequently changed his opinion after the hook was stuck in his mind. Singles [ edit ] Madonna performing the album's lead single and title track, " Like a Virgin", during The MDNA Tour of 2012; the song became her first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. According to author Rikky Rooksby, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous and consist of hidden innuendo. This point, according to Thompson, is further emphasized by the belt she is wearing, the wording on which is just visible as "Boy Toy".According to Q magazine, Like a Virgin was the album that "propelled [Madonna] into the stratosphere – and rightly so. In an interview with Time magazine, Rodgers explained: "I went to the club to see another woman sing, but when I got there Madonna was onstage.

Taraborrelli felt that " Like a Virgin is really a portrait of Madonna's uncanny pop instincts empowered by her impatient zeal for creative growth and her innate knack for crafting a good record. A careful market survey established beyond doubt that the pirates sold 300,000 copies of the same album, without royalties flowing back to the U.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The music on this album has not dated, even thoguht it was originally released in 1984 (Into The Groove ws added in '85 - an early forerunner for today's trend of reissuing 'deluxe' versions of albums!