True Blue
Released: June 30, 1986
Recorded: 1985-1986
Genre: Pop, rock, dance
Length: 40:25
Label: Sire, Warner Bros.
Producer: Madonna, Stephen Bray, Patrick Leonard
True Blue is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, released on June 30, 1986 by Sire Records. Madonna worked with Stephen Bray and Patrick Leonard on the album while co-writing 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 while featuring instrumentation including acoustic guitars, drums, synthesizers and Cuban musical instruments. The album features songs about love, freedom and in the case of “Papa Don’t Preach”, social issues like teenage pregnancy.
Track Listing
- Papa don’t Preach
Length: 4:29 - Open You Heart
Length: 4:13 - White Heat
Length: 4:40 - Live to Tell
Length: 5:52 - Where’s the Party
Length: 4:21 - True Blue
Length: 4:18 - La Isla Bonita
Length: 4:02
VideoClip + Lyrics - Jimmy Jimmy
Length: 3:55 - Love Makes the World Go Round
Length: 4:35 - True Blue (The Color Mix)**
Length: 6:37 - La Isla Bonita (Extended Remix)**
Length: 5:25
** Bonus Tracks of the 2001 Remastered Version
Singles
- “Live to Tell”
Released: March 26, 1986 - “Papa Don’t Preach”
Released: June 11, 1986 - “True Blue”
Released: September 29, 1986 - “Open Your Heart”
Released: November 12, 1986 - “La Isla Bonita”
Released: February 25, 1987
VideoClip + Lyrics
