The story of Like A Prayer is about awomen who witnesses a
murder of awomen getting murdered then a blackman getting framed.
She then runs tothe church and after having a dreamshe goes to the
police station to get
them to release the black man.
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Theme 1
Race is one of the maor themes as we have a blackman being
framed and falsely imprisoned by whitepolice
!e have a all black chore in the church
She is also shown to be
having a relation ship with
one of the black saints
Also in the video are burning
crosses that are related to the """
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The lyrics
She is being controversial with thelyrics by having them in such
a waythat could be seen as se#ual are ust
her talking about religion such as.
$%n the midnight hour % can feel yourpower&
$'ust like a prayer you know %(ll takeyou there&
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The )op out
!ith the lyrics she can say that if people*nd them o+ensive she
can easily saythat oh no %,m talking about god why are
you thinking about se#
The video also ends as a stage
play so she may also say thatis all a play so you cant take
any
