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True Blue is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, released on June 30, 1986, by Sire Records. She worked with Stephen Bray and Patrick Leonard on the album while co-writing and co-producing all the songs. Deemed as Madonna's most girlish album, True Blue deals with her visions of love, work, dreams as well as disappointments, and was inspired by her then husband Sean Penn, to whom Madonna dedicated the album. Musically, the songs on the album took a different direction from her previous endeavours, incorporating classical music in order to engage an older audience who had been skeptical of her music.

The album features instrumentation from acoustic guitars, drums, synthesizers and Cuban musical instruments. The topic for the songs range from love, freedom, and in the case of "Papa Don't Preach", social issues like teenage pregnancy. After its release, True Blue received generally positive reviews from critics. They complimented the album, with one calling it great dance-pop, and described it as the archetype of the late '80s and early '90s pop albums. They also praised the fact that Madonna's voice sounded stronger than it did on her previous efforts, while commending Madonna's skills as a singer, songwriter and entertainer.

True Blue was an immediate global success, reaching number one in then record-breaking 28 countries across the world, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. It spent 34 consecutive weeks at the top of the European Top 100 Albums chart, longer than any other album in history. It became the world's top-selling album of 1986 and remains one of the best-selling albums of all time with sales of more than 25 million copies worldwide. All five singles released from the album reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Live to Tell", "Papa Don't Preach", and "Open Your Heart" peaking at number one.

The album was promoted on Madonna's second concert tour, the Who's That Girl World Tour, which visited cities of North America, Europe and Asia in 1987. The album's singles and their accompanying music videos have sparked debates among scholars and social groups, especially "Papa Don't Preach" for the theme of teenage pregnancy in its lyrics and "Open Your Heart" for portraying a minor entering a strip club in its music video. True Blue is credited as being the album which made Madonna truly into a superstar and cemented her reputation among the consummate musical figures of the 1980s. The album also gave her first appearance on the Guinness Book of World Records.

Background and development

The album was inspired by and dedicated to actor Sean Penn, Madonna's husband at the time.

On March 6, 1986, at the Kensington Roof Gardens in London, during a press conference for Shanghai Surprise, Madonna confirmed that she was working on a new album named Live to Tell, which would be later changed to True Blue.[2] She again collaborated with Stephen Bray who had worked on her previous album Like a Virgin, and began to work with Patrick Leonard for the first time.[2] Madonna wrote or co-wrote every song on the album, although writing involvement on some songs such as "Papa Don't Preach" and "Open Your Heart" was limited to adding lyrics. She was also credited with co-producing every track. The album was recorded in early 1986, during the first year of Madonna's marriage to American actor Sean Penn. She dedicated the album to Penn saying, "This is dedicated to my husband, the coolest guy in the universe."[3][4] With this album Madonna tried to appeal to an older audience who had previously been sceptical of her music by experimenting with her image, adopting a more 'traditional' look, and incorporating classical music in her songs.[5]

Deemed as Madonna's most girlish album yet, True Blue deals with Madonna's view of love, work, dreams as well as disappointments. According to Madonna, True Blue takes its title from a favorite expression of her then husband Sean Penn and his very pure vision of love.[6] The album was a direct tribute to him as well and was inspired by her "unabashed valentine" for Penn.[7] Most of the songs on the album reflect this idea.[3] Each song on True Blue was developed separately. The album's first track, "Papa Don't Preach", was written by Brian Elliot, who described it as "a love song, maybe framed a little bit differently".[8] The song is based on teen gossip he heard outside his studio, which had a large front window that doubled as a mirror where schoolgirls from the North Hollywood High School in Los Angeles regularly stopped to fix their hair and chat.[9] "Open Your Heart" was the first recorded cut for the album, as early as 1986 and ultimately made it to the final released tracklist; it was originally intended for Cyndi Lauper.[10] The third track "White Heat" was dedicated to actor James Cagney and named after the film of the same name from 1949. Two quotations from the original soundtrack were included in the song.[11] The fourth track "Live to Tell" was originally written by Patrick Leonard for the soundtrack of Paramount's romantic drama film Fire with Fire, but after the company declined it, Leonard showed the song to Madonna.[12] She decided to use it for At Close Range, the new film of her then-husband, actor Sean Penn. Madonna made a demo of the song and, when the film's director, James Foley, heard it he asked Leonard to write the score for the film, as suggested by Madonna.[13]

True Blue was the first album where Madonna included Spanish themes as evident in the song "La Isla Bonita".[14] The song was previously written for Michael Jackson's Bad album, but he had turned it down. While working with Leonard on the album, Madonna accepted it in Jackson's place and re-wrote the song's lyrics, thus earning herself a co-writing credit.[15] Madonna described the song as her tribute to the "beauty and mystery of Latin American people".[16] Originally intended as the first single, "Love Makes the World Go Round" closes the album and was first performed at Live Aid a year earlier in July 1985.[17] The song recalled the antiwar music of the sixties.[18]

Packaging

Artist Andy Warhol's concept of pop art was one of the inspirations behind the album artwork.

The album cover, shot by photographer Herb Ritts, is one of Madonna's most recognizable pictures. It features a picture of Madonna from the neck up. The main colors in the picture are gray, white and various shades of blue to reinforce the album's title. Madonna positioned herself in an elegant pose while wearing pale make up with red lips, tilting back her neck in a swan like pose.[19] Jeri Heiden, who was working at Warner Bros. art department, was given the task of editing the photos and making them compatible for appearance in an album cover.[20] She had to work with a total of 60 rolls of photos, each of size 35 mm. Heiden ordered about 30 to 40 test prints from Ritts' studio and made recommendations based on it.[20] Several images from the photo shoot were considered for the album cover, some of which later became the single covers for "Papa Don't Preach", "True Blue" and "Open Your Heart". The final photo was selected by Madonna, Heiden and Jeff Ayeroff, creative director of Warner Bros. at that time.[20] After the final photo was selected, Heiden commissioned two different versions of the album cover. The original image was taken in black-and-white, and Heiden experimented with a variety of treatments of the photo, to go along with the album's title, and finally arrived at the blue toned, hand tinted version of the image.[20] The LP and CD album cover is a cropped image of a longer picture including torso, more of which is seen in the cover of the cassette tape edition, and was also included as a fold-out poster in the initial pressings of the LP.[21] A poster of Madonna, mirroring the cover art, was included within the vinyl versions of the album.[22] In the US and Canada, the cover did not have any logo, but in the European nations, they were sold with Madonna's name and album title on the cover. Heiden explained in an interview with Aperture magazine that they thought it would be "cool" to use a shrink wrap on the US covers, so that when one took it off, there would only be the photo of Madonna.[20] For the European nations, Warner felt that the name was needed on the cover, as they did not want to take chance with Madonna's popularity there. The back sleeve and the booklet inside featured the song titles in Heiden's own handwriting.[20] About cropping the image for the cassette and the vinyl versions, Heiden said: "I think the image became more interesting cropped into a square—and at that time we always started with the album cover configuration. It was like she was floating—her clothing was not visible. She took on the appearance of a marble statue—Goddess like. In the vertical cropping you see her leather jacket and the wall, and it becomes more typical, editorial, earthly."[20]

According to Lucy O'Brien, author of Madonna: Like an Icon, the album artwork was on-par with Andy Warhol's concept of pop art.[23] She felt that the image was a mixture of innocence, idealism, while incorporating 50s-style Technicolor and hand tinted color, characteristic of Warhol's silkscreen printed design, prevalent in the 60s. Jeri Heiden, the album's cover designer commented, "She was already highly aware of the value of her image and was in control of it. After I took the photo, it appeared as if she was floating—her clothing was not visible. She took on the appearance of a marble statue, goddess-like."[23] O'Brien felt that the artwork heralded the arrival of a new Madonna, while drawing on the enduring appeal of her celluloid icon Marilyn Monroe. "With this picture, Madonna made explicit the connection between Warhol and herself, the vivid nexus between pop art and commerce. The late 1980s marked a new era of the pop artist as a brand, and Madonna became the first one to exploit this."[23] Erica Wexler from Spin described Madonna on the cover as "like a cobra basking in the hot sun, Madonna on the cover of her new album stretches her profile lasciviously."[24] Author J. Randy Taraborrelli commented in Madonna: An Intimate Biography, that the album cover indicated how True Blue was a vehicle of growth for Madonna. He felt that the washed out color photograph of her with head tossed back and eyes closed was understated, especially when compared to the sexier poses with which she had been associated in the past.[25] The album's inner sleeve did not feature any photographs, instead was dedicated to album credits and the song lyrics. This was due to the fact that Madonna wanted to be best represented by her work on True Blue, not her image.[26]

Composition

"It's my ultimate statement about what it's like to be in the middle of this Press stuff with everybody on my back, my world about to cave in. Whenever I feel like that – and it does get to me sometimes – I say 'Wait a minute, I'm supposed to be having a good time here, so where's the party?' It doesn't have to be this way. I can still enjoy life."

"I used to fantasize that we grew up in the same neighbourhood and that he (Jimmy Dean) moved away and became a big star"

—Madonna talking about the songs "Where's the Party" and "Jimmy Jimmy" [11]

Musically True Blue was a different direction for Madonna. Her previous efforts had her singing in a high pitched voice. With this album, Madonna toned it down for a more bubblegum-pop voice. The songs on the album reflect this and a number of instruments were used in the songs to bring out the different moods which the lyrics emphasized. "Papa Don't Preach" features acoustic, electric, and rhythm guitars, keyboards, and string arrangements.[27] The song samples Beethoven's Appassionata sonata.[28] A continuous percussion filled structure was used in "Open Your Heart".[11] "White Heat"'s sampling of the film's quotation was included with speech and gunshots. It is an uptempo dance song with synth bass and double-tracked vocals supported by male voices in the chorus.[11] On ballads like "Live to Tell" there are background instrumentation from a keyboard, a synthesizer, a funk guitar and a mix of synthesized and real drumming.[29] "Where's the Party" is a standard Madonna dance track with arrangements of bass drums, synthesizer, clattering rhythms and a remixed approach to the whole composition.[11] The title track featured instrumentation from a rhythm guitar, a synthesizer, keyboards, and drums for the bassline, with a backing track that employed a chord progression commonly used in doo-wop[29] Cuban drums and Spanish guitar, maracas and harmonicas are used in "La Isla Bonita".[30] "Jimmy Jimmy" has an early sixties pop influence and the lyrics were a tribute to pop star James Dean.[11]

Lyrically True Blue reflects Madonna's ideas about love. "Where's the Party" tells about a working girl enjoying her day on the dance-floor after work.[11] "Jimmy Jimmy" talks about Madonna's admiration for the neighbourhood bad boy.[3] Other songs like the Spanish "La Isla Bonita" and "Love Makes the World Go Round" has lyrics dealing with escapism from normal life with the later talking about anti-war and anti-poverty and uses Latin drums and samba influenced rhythms.[3] The lyrics of "White Heat" deals with firmness and Madonna included Clint Eastwood's infamous "make my day" quote in the song.[11] "Papa Don't Preach", dealt with lyrics talking about a young woman who tells her father that she is pregnant out of wedlock, but is going to keep her baby. "Live to Tell" portraits the complexity of deceit and mistrust.[29] The song also is about childhood scars and had an extreme emotional pitch, achieving it in a divine sense.[31] The title track had Madonna talking about romance and 50s inspired girl group pop.[32] The lyrics of "True Blue" are constructed in a verse-chorus form, with the theme been Madonna's feelings for Sean Penn; even using the 1929 archaic love word "dear" in the line "Just think back and remember, dear".[33] Madonna expressed her sexual desires in the lyrics of the song "Open Your Heart"[28] and described the beauty of a Latin paradise in "La Isla Bonita".[34]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
BBC[35]
Billboard(favorable)[36]
Blender[37]
Robert Christgau(B)[38]
Entertainment Weekly(B)[39]
Los Angeles Times(favorable)[40]
The New York Times(favorable)[41]
Rolling Stone[42]
Slant Magazine[43]

True Blue received generally positive reviews from music critics. Music critics praise the fact that Madonna's voice sounded stronger than it did on her previous efforts. Jon Pareles, in a review for The New York Times, said that True Blue reprised the themes of fidelity in its songs and complimented her addition of a tinge of real world storytelling in her songs, making her reach the "fringes of the permissible".[41] Stephen Holden in another review complimented the album and said that "Madonna goes heavy on heart in this record".[44] In a Rolling Stone review, Davitt Sigerson stated that Madonna was "singing better than ever." The album's songs were called "catchy", but Sigerson also commented on the lack of outstanding songs. He ultimately stated that True Blue is a "sturdy, dependable, lovable new album" which "remains faithful to her past while shamelessly rising above it."[45] Stephen Thomas Erlewine, in a review for Allmusic, declared it as "one of the great dance-pop albums, a record that demonstrates Madonna's true skills as a songwriter, record-maker, provocateur, and entertainer through its wide reach, accomplishment, and sheer sense of fun." He further explained "what's brilliant about True Blue is that she does both here, using the music to hook in critics just as she's baiting a mass audience with such masterstrokes as "Papa Don't Preach," where she defiantly states she's keeping her baby. It's easy to position anti-abortionism as feminism, but what's tricky is to transcend your status as a dance-pop diva by consciously recalling classic girl-group pop ("True Blue," "Jimmy Jimmy") to snag the critics, while deepening the dance grooves ("Open Your Heart," "Where's the Party"), touching on Latin rhythms ("La Isla Bonita"), making a plea for world peace ("Love Makes the World Go Round"), and delivering a tremendous ballad that rewrites the rules of adult contemporary crossover ("Live to Tell")." [1]

Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine called the album "the supreme archetype for late '80s and early '90s pop music.[...] Time stamped with '80s-era keyboard and drum synths, True Blue, though chockfull of hits, is the most dated of Madonna's albums." He praised the album's songs for being more mature than "Material Girl", and said that the album "includes some of Madonna's greatest, most influential hits (the robust "Open Your Heart" and the timeless "La Isla Bonita"), but it's also home to some of her biggest clunkers."[43] Michael Paoletta from Billboard commented in 2001 that nearly 20 years after its debut, the album is still irresistible.[36] Entertainment Weekly reviewer Jim Farber said "Though Madonna's third project finds her adding to her palette with Spanish pop ("La Isla Bonita") and messing with our heads with its seeming anti-abortion song ("Papa Don't Preach"). Also notable for 'Live to Tell,' her best ballad to date".[39] Robert Christgau was not impressed with the album and said "In a time of collective self-deception, we don't need another snow job."[38] Robert Hilburn from Los Angeles Times stated that "True Blue isn't revolutionary music, but it is imaginative, highly energized pop that recognizes the limitations and pleasures of Top 40 fare."[40] Erica Wexler from Spin commented that "True Blue is Madonna's rite of passage between pop adolescence and a harsher adult world. With all her contrivances and the delighted tunes that I can't exorcise from my head, her mystique is still explained by the young beefcake who told me, 'I love to pump iron to Madonna'."[46]

Commercial response

Madonna wearing a crown of thorns performs the album's first single "Live to Tell" while hanging on a mirrored cross, in her 2006 Confessions Tour.

In the United States, True Blue debuted at number 28 on the Billboard 200 and reached number one on the issue dated August 16, 1986.[47] It stayed on the top position for five consecutive weeks and on the chart for a total of 82 weeks. The album also reached a peak of number 47 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[48] True Blue was certified seven times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of over seven million units, making it Madonna's third best-selling album in the United States, behind Like a Virgin (1984) and The Immaculate Collection (1990).[49] After the advent of the Nielsen SoundScan era in 1991, the album sold a further 404,000 copies.[50] In Canada, the album debuted at number 73 on the RPM albums chart for the issue of July 5, 1986.[51] The album climbed rapidly upwards and reached number one on the issue dated August 9, 1986.[52] It stayed at the top for nine weeks and was present on the chart for 77 weeks.[53][54] True Blue was certified diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) for shipment of one million copies.[55]

True Blue was also a commercial success in Asia and Oceania. In Japan, the album peaked at number two on the Oricon LP chart.[56] At the 1987 Japan Gold Disc Awards held by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), True Blue received "Album of the Year Pop Solo" and "Grand Prix Album of the Year", which was given for the year's best-selling international album, while Madonna was honored the "Artist of the Year" for the year's best-selling international artist.[57] In Hong Kong, True Blue was certified platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.[58] In Australia, the album topped the Kent Music Report albums chart on the issue date of August 4, 1986, staying there for two weeks.[59] It was certified four times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 280,000 copies.[59] It also reached number one in New Zealand albums chart and was certified five times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) for shipment of 75,000 copies.[60]

True Blue achieved its biggest commercial reception in European countries, where it topped the European Top 100 Albums chart for 34 consecutive weeks—a record that has yet to be broken—from issue dated July 19, 1986 to March 7, 1987.[61] In the United Kingdom, True Blue opened at the top of the UK Albums Chart on July 12, 1986, making it the first album by American artist to debut at number one in British chart history.[62][63] It remained at the summit for six weeks and on the chart for a total of 85 weeks.[64] True Blue was the best-selling album of 1986 in the United Kingdom.[65] The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) certified it seven times platinum for shipment of 2.1 million copies.[66] True Blue also topped the albums chart in France and was certified diamond by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) for shipment of one million copies.[67][68] Actual sales of the album in the country stand at 1,353,100 copies.[68] In Germany, the album peaked at number one for eight weeks and was certified two times platinum by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) for shipment of one million copies.[69][70]

Singles

"Live to Tell"
Released as the album's first single, "Live to Tell" was described by critics as "her best ballad to date." It reached number one in countries such as Canada, Italy and the United States, as well as the European Hot 100 Singles.
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"Live to Tell" was the first single released from the album in March 1986. The song was the second ballad for Madonna after "Crazy for You",[29] and was used in the film At Close Range which starred her then husband Sean Penn. The song was received positively by critics with most of them calling it "her best ballad to date" as well as a "tremendous ballad that rewrites the rules of adult contemporary crossover".[1][39] "Live to Tell" became Madonna's third number one single on the Billboard Hot 100[71] and her second number-one that is featured in a film after "Crazy for You".[72] It also became a success internationally reaching the top ten in Canada, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.[73][74][75][76][77] "Papa Don't Preach" was released as the second single in June 1986. It was critically appreciated with most of them declaring it as "the stand-alone song" from the album,[45] also that "with songs like 'Papa Don't Preach', Madonna made the transition from pop tart to consummate artist, joining the ranks of 80s icons like Michael Jackson and Prince."[78] The song became Madonna's fourth number-one single in the U.S.[71] and also reached the top spot in Canada, Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom.[79][80][81][82]

"True Blue" was released as the album's third single on September 1986. It is a dance-pop song inspired by the Motown's girl groups from the 1960s.[6] Critics generally received the song as a light-hearted, fun track having a 50's feeling to it,[83] although some critics believed that it was "sassless and neutered" as compared to the other songs on the record,[84] and that "True Blue" is "a song that is merely cute and not really up to being the title track of an album". The song became another top ten hit for Madonna reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart,[71] and peaked at number one in Ireland and the United Kingdom.[85][86] "Open Your Heart" was the fourth single from the album released on November 1986. The song was appreciated critically with critics comparing it with sweeter post-Motown valentine songs,[44] and "perfect" for dancefloor strut.[87] The song became Madonna's fifth number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[71] Internationally, it became a top ten hit in several European countries including Belgium, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.[88][89][90][91][92] "La Isla Bonita" was released as the fifth and final single on February 1987. The song describe Madonna as a tourist who prays "that the days would last, they went so fast".[93] The first line refers to an island called San Pedro although this has not been clearly stated by Madonna in any interview.[94] The song received positive response with critics calling it one of Madonna's greatest, most influential songs as well as the best song on the album.[43][95] "La Isla Bonita" was a worldwide hit, reaching number one in Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom,[96][97] while reaching a peak of four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[71]

Promotion

Main article: Who's That Girl World Tour
Madonna performing "La Isla Bonita" with the Kolpakov Trio in the 2008 "Sticky & Sweet Tour".

Prior to the album's release, Madonna premiered "Love Makes the World Go Round" at the 1985 Live Aid series of concerts.[98] The rest of the album's tracks were included on the setlist of her 1987 Who's That Girl World Tour except "Jimmy Jimmy" which remains still the only song Madonna did not perform on any live appearance.[99] It was her second concert tour and promoted True Blue alongside the film project Who's That Girl.[100] It was Madonna's first world tour, reaching Asia, North America and Europe. Musically and technically superior to her previous Virgin Tour, the Who's That Girl tour incorporated multimedia components to make the show more appealing.[100] Madonna trained herself physically with aerobics, jogging and weight-lifting, to cope with the choreography and the dance routines.[101] For the costumes, she collaborated with designer Marlene Stewart, expanding on the idea of bringing her popular video characters to life onstage, reworking scenes from "True Blue", "Open Your Heart", "Papa Don't Preach" and "La Isla Bonita".[101] The stage was huge, with four video screens, multimedia projectors and a flight of stairs in the middle. Leonard became the music director and encouraged Madonna to go with the idea of rearranging her older songs and presenting them in a new format.[102] Madonna named the tour 'Who's That Girl', after looking up at a gigantic image of herself projected on a screen on the stage during rehearsals.[103]

The show consisted of seven costume changes, with song-and-dance routines and theatrics with an encore consisting of the title song "Who's That Girl" and "Holiday".[19] The tour also addressed social causes like AIDS, during "Papa Don't Preach".[104] Who's That Girl was critically appreciated, with reviewers commenting on the extravagant nature of the concert and complimenting Madonna for her dancing, costume changes and dynamic pacing.[105][106][107] Who's That Girl was a commercial success, grossing a total of U.S. $25 million, with Madonna playing in front of 1.5 million people over the course of the tour.[108] According to Pollstar, it was the second top female concert tour of 1987, behind Tina Turner's Break Every Rule Tour.[100][109] Two concerts from the Who's That Girl tour were later released on on the VHS Ciao, Italia! – Live from Italy.[110] Taraborrelli commented that "Many female artists behave like a diva for a period when they reach superstar status, and the 'Who's That Girl?' tour marked the beginning of Madonna's."[111] The tour is also noted for giving rise to the new Madonna persona, a stronger and more intelligent sexual image of her former self which had given rise to the term Madonna wannabe.[112] A statue of Madonna, wearing a conical bra was erected in her name, at the center of the town of Pacentro in Italy, where her ancestors used to live.[103]

Legacy

Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted that "True Blue is the album where Madonna truly became 'Madonna the Superstar'—the endlessly ambitious, fearlessly provocative entertainer that knew how to outrage, spark debates, get good reviews—and make good music while she's at it."[1] Mark Savage from BBC stated that True Blue is the album which cemented Madonna's reputation as the 'First Lady of Pop'.[35] Similarly, Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine said that with the album "Madonna made the transition from pop tart to consummate artist, joining the ranks of '80s icons like Michael Jackson and Prince."[43] Regarding Madonna's influence on the record industry and younger artists, Debbie Gibson's then manager Doug Breitbart commented: "Madonna has brought back a really strong, melodic component to pop music. She has a very youth-oriented, up, bubbly, fun sound."[113] The global success of True Blue marked the first time Madonna entering the Guinness Book of World Records in its 1988 edition, where she was dubbed as the most successful singer for 1986.[114] The album also held the record for number one in most countries, topping the album charts in a total of 28 countries around the world.[115] True Blue was also the world's top-selling album of 1986 and remains one of the best-selling albums of all time with sales of more than 25 million copies worldwide.[116] Slant Magazine listed the album at number 60 on the list of "Best Albums of the 1980s" and stated that "True Blue was the album on which it became readily apparent that Madonna was more than just a flash-in-the-pan pop star."[117]

"Papa Don't Preach"
"Papa Don't Preach" is sung from the perspective of a teenage girl who admits to her father that not only is she pregnant, but she plans to keep and raise the child. Conservatives supported Madonna's message that she was choosing to keep her unborn child rather than undergoing an abortion.
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The second single from the album, "Papa Don't Preach" faced criticism as well as support from groups concerned with pregnancy and abortion for its theme of a girl getting pregnant and then deciding to keep her baby instead of aborting it. Alfred Moran who was the executive director of Planned Parenthood of New York City, criticized the song, fearing that it would undermine efforts to promote birth control among adolescents and that it would encourage teenage pregnancy.[118][119] Susan Carpenter-McMillan who was the president of Feminists for Life (FFL) in the U.S., accepted the song's theme as being pro-life and said that "abortion is readily available on every street corner for young women. Now what Madonna is telling them is, hey, there's an alternative."[119] In a New York Times interview, Madonna commented on the events happening surrounding the song:[6]

"Papa Don't Preach" is a message song that everyone is going to take the wrong way. Immediately they're going to say I am advising every young girl to go out and get pregnant. When I first heard the song, I thought it was silly. But then I thought, wait a minute, this song is really about a girl who is making a decision in her life. She has a very close relationship with her father and wants to maintain that closeness. To me it's a celebration of life. It says, 'I love you, father, and I love this man and this child that is growing inside me'. Of course, who knows how it will end? But at least it starts off positive."

True Blue also generated cultural significance with the accompanying music videos of its singles released. Author Semonche in his book Censoring Sex explained that with the album Madonna pushed the envelope of what could be shown on television which resulted in increase of her popularity.[120] Madonna tried to experiment with different forms and styles with the videos and in the process constructed a new set of image and identity.[121] She employed different aesthetic strategies to illustrate her songs, both narratively and deconstructing the actual meaning of the song.[121] With the music video of "Live to Tell", Madonna changed her 'boy-toy' image of previous videos, movies and concert performances to a sophisticated and serious young woman.[121] Madonna adopted a constant image makeover with each video as was evident with the release of the next music video for "Papa Don't Preach".[121] For the third single "True Blue", Madonna and Sire Records decided to opt for a promotional device in the United States that would involve MTV viewers to make their own videos for the song.[122] Titled "Madonna's 'Make My Video' Contest", the event was joined by thousands of participants with many of the submissions featured teenagers imitating Madonna.[122] Author Lisa A. Lewis said that this event emphasized the effect Madonna had on different kind of audiences due to the popularity and response to the contest.[122] The music video of "Open Your Heart" had Madonna changing the concept of the stereo-typical male gaze and voyeurism. She appeared as a stripper in the video, who escapes with a young boy from the strip parlour in the end.[121] Feminist writer Susan Bordo gave a negative review of the video, saying that the leering and pathetic men in the cubicles and Madonna's escape with the boy is "cynically and mechanically tacked on [as] a way of claiming trendy status for what is just cheesecake – or, perhaps, pornography".[123] MTV also had some reservations initially before airing the video, which was later resolved after a meeting with Warner Officials.[124] But author Donn Welton pointed out that the usual power relationship between the "voyeuristic male gaze and object" is destabilized by the portrayal of the male patrons of the peep show as leering and pathetic.[125] Madonna's Spanish look in the music video for the single "La Isla Bonita" became popular and appeared in the fashion trends at that time in the form of boleros and layered skirts accessorizing with rosary beads and crucifix like the video.[126] At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna was awarded a lifetime achievement "Video Vanguard Award" to acknowledge the impact of her music videos on the music industry and popular culture. She was the first female artist to receive such honor.[127]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Papa Don't Preach"Brian Elliot, MadonnaMadonna, Stephen Bray4:29
2."Open Your Heart"Madonna, Gardner Cole, Peter RafelsonMadonna, Patrick Leonard4:13
3."White Heat"Madonna, LeonardMadonna, Leonard4:40
4."Live to Tell"Madonna, LeonardMadonna, Leonard5:51
5."Where's the Party"Madonna, Bray, LeonardMadonna, Leonard, Bray4:21
6."True Blue"Madonna, BrayMadonna, Bray4:18
7."La Isla Bonita"Madonna, Leonard, Bruce GaitschMadonna, Leonard4:02
8."Jimmy Jimmy"Madonna, BrayMadonna, Bray3:55
9."Love Makes the World Go Round"Madonna, LeonardMadonna, Leonard4:31
Total length:40:18
2001 Remastered edition bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
10."True Blue" (The Color Mix)Madonna, BrayMadonna, Bray, Shep Pettibone (remix)6:40
11."La Isla Bonita" (Extended Remix)Madonna, Leonard, GaitschMadonna, Leonard, Chris Lord-Alge5:27
Total length:52:25

Credits and personnel

Source[128]

Charts and certifications

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[144] 		US Club
[144][145] 		AUS
[59] 		AUT
[146] 		CAN
[147] 		FRA
[148] 		GER
[149] 		ITA
[150] 		SWI
[151] 		UK
[152]
1986 "Live to Tell" 1 — 7 — 1 6 12 1 4 2
"Papa Don't Preach" 1 3 1 4 1 3 2 1 2 1
"True Blue" 3 6 5 9 1 6 6 4 6 1
"Open Your Heart" 1 1 16 18 8 24 17 6 11 4
1987 "La Isla Bonita" 4 — 6 1 1 1 1 18 1 1
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released.

Chart precession and succession

Preceded by UK Albums Chart number-one album
July 12, 1986 – August 22, 1986 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Australian Kent Music Report number-one album
August 4, 1986 – August 17, 1986 		Succeeded by
Whitney Houston by Whitney Houston
Preceded by
Top Gun
by Various Artists
 U.S. Billboard 200 number-one album
August 16, 1986 – September 19, 1986 		Succeeded by
Preceded by UK Albums Chart biggest selling album of the year
1986 		Succeeded by

See also

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