Girls also wore Jelly Shoes, large crucifix neclaces, and braissers all inspired by Madonna's " Like a Virgin " video.

The controversy surrounding her marketing of sexuality began with the video for " Lucky Star ", and amplified over time due to clips such as " Like a Virgin ".

Taking Madonna singing " Like a Virgin " and rerecording it backwards or slower is plunderphonics, as long as you can reasonably recognize the source.

Much attention is garnered by Madonna's controversial performance of her hit single " Like a Virgin " in which she rolls around on the stage, revealing lacy stockings and garters, and grinds her crotch against her veil.

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

The movie is at least partly the inspiration for the song " Alice and Interiors " by the band Manchester Orchestra from their album I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child.

Her debut solo album A Girl Like Me was released in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2001 by Virgin Records.

Her debut solo album A Girl Like Me, released in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2001 by Virgin Records.

They released several albums on IRS Records, including the keyboard-laden hit single " Open Your Eyes " and a cover of " Like A Virgin ".

Thompson appeared with numerous artists such as Jody Watley, Madonna ( on her 1984 album Like A Virgin ), Rod Stewart, Robert Palmer, Adam Ant ( on his unreleased Persuasion album ), Mick Jagger, and David Bowie ( on his 1983 Let's Dance album and subsequent Serious Moonlight tour ).

1984: At the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, Madonna performed her iconic hit " Like A Virgin " wearing a combination bustier / wedding gown, including her trademark " Boy Toy " belt.

The three singers performed a medley of her early hit, " Like a Virgin ", and her then latest release, " Hollywood ", with a guest rap by Missy Elliott.

The design resembled Madonna's performance of " Like a Virgin " at the 1984 VMAs: the same wedding cake set, wedding dresses and " Boy Toy " belt worn by Madonna in 1984 now adorned Aguilera and Spears.

The second segment was passionate and religious-themed, beginning with a Middle-Eastern version of " Like a Virgin " sung on a red silk bed.

# " Like a Virgin "

Like the statues of the Virgin exposed to the interior of the basilica, the bell came before the construction of the current building.

** Like a Virgin 12 " ( 1985 )

# Venus / Like A Virgin / Girls Just Want To Have Fun / Venus ( Reprise )

The song was sent to Madonna by Michael Ostin, the same Warner Bros. executive that discovered " Like a Virgin ".

Davitt Sigerson from Rolling Stone magazine in a review of the album True Blue said that if there is a problem with the album " it's the lack of outstanding songs ", adding that " only the magnificent ' Papa Don't Preach ' has the high-profile hook to match ' Like a Virgin ', ' Dress You Up ' and ' Material Girl '.

Friends Like Us: The Unofficial Guide to Friends, 2nd ed., London: Virgin Publishing.

The King, their next album, received critical reviews ; it consisted of a number of self-confessedly shambolic guitar thrashes and a cover of Madonna's " Like a Virgin ".

* 1984: " All I Need " # 2 US ( 2 weeks ) behind Madonna's ' Like A Virgin ' - January 12, 1985 (# 1 AC-2 weeks )

Season 3 Episode 18, Like a Virgin, makes reference to a team of card counters that acts in a similar fashion to the MIT BlackJack Team

Examples are " Like a Virgin ", " Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ", " What is Love ", and " Station to Station.

Like the recent Scheherazade from London ( High Fidelity, Sept. 1961 ), it is successful because emphasis has been placed on good musical and engineering practices rather than on creating sensational effects.

Like the Yankees' slugger, Mays, the terror of the Giants, has had seasons that would be considered the ultimate by most players, but not by -- or for -- Willie.

Like Bernini's characteristic works, they often express the Baroque aesthetic of depicting dramatic attitudes and emotional expressions, yet Algardi's sculpture has a restraining sobriety in contrast to those of his rival.

Like the USA, Australia has an a cappella association ( Vocal Australia ) who organizes events, education and resources for the vocal music community.

Like the natural world that he observes he too has reached his prime and now must look forward to the inevitability of old age and death.

Like the Finnsburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been used as a source of information about Scandinavian personalities such as Eadgils and Hygelac, and about continental Germanic personalities such as Offa, king of the continental Angles.

Like chess, backgammon has been studied with great interest by computer scientists.

Like Isaiah, the book has a vision of the punishment of Israel and creation of a " remnant ", followed by world peace centred on Zion under the leadership of a new Davidic monarch ; the people should do justice, turn to Yahweh, and await the end of their punishment.

Like diazepam it has a long elimination half-life and long-acting active metabolites.

Like the vision of Banquo's lineage, the banquet scene has also been the subject of criticism.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also traces its heritage to the foundation of Christianity through Apostolic succession and has an episcopal structure, though the autonomy of the individual, mostly national churches is emphasized.

Like other SI base units, the candela has an operational definition — it is defined by a description of a physical process that will produce one candela of luminous intensity.

Like a grain boundary, a twin boundary has different crystal orientations on its two sides.

Like most imperative languages in the ALGOL tradition, C has facilities for structured programming and allows lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.

Like many programming languages, Perl has mechanisms to use external libraries of code, making one file contain common routines used by several programs.

Like the 1541 and 1571, the 1581 has an on board MOS Technology 6502 CPU with its own ROM and RAM, and uses a serial version of the IEEE-488 interface.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

Cyril has also been portrayed in Ki Longfellow's Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria.

Like many of the Eastern Fathers, he has an essentially moralistic conception of Christianity.

Like all other former Illuminati members, Xavier has sworn to never use the gem and to keep its location hidden.

Like the other joint chiefs, the CNO is an administrative position and has no operational command authority over United States naval forces.

Like many critical applications, critical psychology has expanded beyond Marxist and feminist roots to benefit from other critical approaches.

Like other words, the term definition has subtly different meanings in different contexts.

Like many other mainline Protestant denominations, the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ) has experienced a significant loss of membership since the middle of the 20th century.

Like Encarta, the Britannica has been criticised for being biased towards United States audiences ; the United Kingdom-related articles are updated less often, maps of the United States are more detailed than those of other countries, and it lacks a UK dictionary.