Madonna is having the most epic BRAT summer & it’s all thanks to ‘Like a Prayer’
Brat album aesthetic, Madonna would like a word.Ever since Charli embraced Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign by tweeting that the vice president “IS brat”, the term has not only been memed to death but moved from the confines of Gen Z pop fans to boomer CNN pundits.Your auntie is brat!Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.If you told me 6 months ago that CNN would have a group of panelists discussing how Charli xcx’s 6th album is being a major voting influence in the 2024 US presidential election I’d laugh in your face pic.twitter.com/3elqmXCb1JInterestingly, another pop diva, who may be more familiar to music fans and politicos of a certain age, is currently seeing a renewed interest in one of her most iconic hits from the ’80s.Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” was released in March 1989 and is in the midst of having a pop renaissance 35 years later.Take a minute to relive the song’s iconography and controversy.In the midnight hour, Madonna came out on top!So what is the “Like a Prayer” resurgence all about?It actually all started months ago when the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer was first released and featured the Queen of Pop’s most blasphemous anthem as its soundtrack.Then last week, Ryan Reynolds and the film’s director Shawn Levy disclosed how getting Madonna to license the track was no easy feat.The duo had to meet with the music icon in person to get her permission to use the song.“It was a big deal to ask for it and certainly a bigger deal to use it,” Reynolds said on Andy Cohen‘s SiriusXM radio show, per People. “We went over and met with her and and sort of showed her how it was being used, and where, and why.”Madonna gave the OK, but not before adding her two cents.“She gave a great note.
She watched it, and I’m not kidding, [she said], ‘You need to do this.’ And damn it, if she wasn’t like spot on,” Reynolds added. “It made the sequence better.”The.
