“True Blue” by Madonna

The title track of Madonna's third studio album, "True Blue" was written and produced with her collaborator Stephen Bray and went to radio in September 1986 as the record's third single. It's a love note to her then-husband Sean Penn dressed in vintage clothes: dance-pop that borrows its sway from Motown and the girl groups of the 1950s and 1960s, and critics mostly warmed to that retro glow.

It went all the way to the top in Canada, the UK and Ireland, and reached 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, her tenth top-ten hit in a row there. Of its two videos, James Foley shot the official one, putting Madonna and her backup singers in a blue, 1950s-flavored setting, while in America Sire and MTV ran a contest inviting fans to film their own; the winner, shot in sepia, told a teenage love story.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.