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^  Back to your barbie.
Anyway, here's Rolling Stone's review of the performance from "50 moments that changed the history of rock & roll"
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People were gasping in the audience," says Madonna's longtime publicist, Liz Rosenberg, of the star's "Like a Virgin" at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards, in 1984. "An ex-boyfriend of mine leaned over and said, 'Her career is over before it even started.' Of course, I was petrified."
Madonna wore a lascivious reinterpretation of a wedding gown -- a white bustier and a shredded white tutu -- accessorized with lace gloves, dangerously high heels, clunky necklaces and a tulle veil that didn't stay on her head very long. She started her performance dancing on top of a giant wedding cake and ended it by rolling around the stage at New York's Radio City Music Hall, humping her veil and revealing her panties to a live TV audience. "Madonna took it so much further than anyone knew she was capable of," says Rosenberg. "Some people thought she was the greatest thing ever, and other people thought she was disgusting."
The three-year-old MTV network wanted to set itself apart from staid awards shows such as the Grammys. It worked. "We were looking to produce a show that reflected MTV's image and went against the grain," says Infinity radio chairman John Sykes, who was the executive producer of the first VMAs. "We were like kids discovering all these hydraulic lifts and stage devices in Radio City. We were working all these cool effects, but when Madonna walked out and began writhing on the floor in a wedding dress, I'll never forget the look on our advertisers' and affiliates' faces in the front row. We felt some heat the next day, but nobody told us we shouldn't have done it."
In twenty-three years, MTV's viewership has grown from a subscriber base of 2.5 million to 375 million, and the budget for the VMAs is eight times what it was in 1984. What hasn't changed is the ongoing attempt to match the shock value of that first broadcast. Only a few came close: Howard Stern in assless stretch pants as "Fart Man" in 1992, the kiss Michael Jackson and then-wife Lisa Marie Presley shared in 1994 and, most recently, the reprise of "Like a Virgin" at last year's ceremony that culminated with Madonna slipping tongue to Britney Spears. "After the Madonna performance in year one, we all knew we had to put at least one moment like that into the show to give it the 'oh, wow' factor," says Sykes. "That became part of the planning from that point on. What would be the moment picked up around the country the next day?"
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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto...e_vmas_in_1984
And MTV's review of the performance:
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Madonna's live rendition of "Like a Virgin" that gave the MTV Video Music Awards a still-standing reputation as home to the most shocking moments ever seen on an awards show. Appearing in a lacy, white wedding gown accented by her de rigueur "Boy Toy" belt, the future Mrs. Guy Ritchie turned out a performance that is still talked about to this very day. As she writhed across every square inch of the stage titillating viewers with an innocent coo and suggestive motions, she not only cemented her now decades-held position as a boundary-pushing presence on the popular music scene, but planted MTV's flag firmly in the pop culture landscape. (Thanks, Madge!)
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http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/1984/
ICON. LEGEND. 
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i love this song <3
I wouldn't be suprized! 