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'''Track listing'''

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# "Papa Don't Preach"
# "Open Your Heart"
# "White Heat"
# "Live to Tell"
# "Where's the Party"
# "True Blue"
# "La Isla Bonita"
# "Jimmy Jimmy"
# "Love Makes The World Go Round"

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[[AC: Side One]]
# "Papa Don't Preach"
Preach" (4:27)
# "Open Your Heart"
Heart" (4:12)
# "White Heat"
Heat" (4:25)
# "Live to Tell"
Tell" (5:45)

[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Where's the Party"
Party" (4:20)
# "True Blue"
Blue" (4:16)
# "La Isla Bonita"
Bonita" (4:01)
# "Jimmy Jimmy"
Jimmy" (3:54)
# "Love Makes The World Go Round"
Round" (4:27)

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!!This album provides examples of!! ''Last night I troped in San Pedro...''
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''P'''apa Don't '''P'''reach".



* DreamSequence: "La Isla Bonita"
--> ''Last night I dreamt of San Pedro''
--> ''Just like I'd never gone, I knew the song''
--> ''A young girl with eyes like the desert''
--> ''It all seems like yesterday, not far away''



* GratuitousSpanish: In "La Isla Bonita".

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* GratuitousSpanish: In "La Isla Bonita".Bonita".
--> ''Como puede ser verdad?'' [[note]] "How could it be true?" [[/note]]
--> ''(...) Te dijo te amo''



* QuestioningTitle: "Where's The Party?"



* TitleTrack
* VideoFullOfFilmClips: The "Live to Tell" video has clips from Sean Penn's ''At Close Range'' intercut with Madonna sitting on a chair in a dark room with a spotlight on her.

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* TitleTrack
TitleTrack: "True Blue".
* VideoFullOfFilmClips: The "Live to Tell" video has clips from Sean Penn's ''At Close Range'' intercut with Madonna sitting on a chair in a dark room with a spotlight on her.her.
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* FaceOnTheCover: Madonna's face in close-up, filling up the entire cover.

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* [[AlbumCoverDesigners Album Cover Designer]]: Herb Ritts.



* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The stylish album cover was photographed by Herb Ritts.



* MinimalisticCoverArt: Madonna's face in profile, head tilted backwards.
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'''True Blue''' is Music/{{Madonna}}'s third studio album, which was released in 1986. It contains the popular hits "Live To Tell", "Papa Don't Preach", "Open Your Heart", and "La Isla Bonita". Its title track, although it also became a hit, unfortunately became CanonDiscontinuity with the artist as it was written for her ex-husband Creator/SeanPenn.

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'''True Blue''' '''''True Blue''''' is Music/{{Madonna}}'s third studio album, which was released in 1986. It contains the popular hits "Live To to Tell", "Papa Don't Preach", "Open Your Heart", and "La Isla Bonita". Its title track, although it also became a hit, unfortunately became CanonDiscontinuity with the artist as it was written for her ex-husband Creator/SeanPenn.



# "Live To Tell"
# "Where's The Party"

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# "Live To to Tell"
# "Where's The the Party"



* DarkSecret: ''"Live To Tell"''. It's never revealed what that secret is, but the singer wishes to tell it someday.

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* DarkSecret: ''"Live To Tell"''."Live to Tell". It's never revealed what that secret is, but the singer wishes to tell it someday.



* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: A lesbian appears in one of the booths of the stripper show watching Madonna dance in the video for ''"Open Your Heart"''.
* FanVid: Although Madonna already had a video for ''"True Blue"'', she ran a contest on Creator/{{MTV}} for a fan-made video that would be chosen as the "official" video for the song on that network.
* TheFifties: ''Jimmy Jimmy'' is a homage to Creator/JamesDean and the music video of ''True Blue'' shows Madonna driving around in a 1950s car.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The subject of ''"Papa Don't Preach"'' is an unwanted pregnancy which the singer gets from somebody. She decides that she's going to keep the baby instead of get rid of it. This trope is possibly subverted, though, as both her friends and father have advised her have an abortion, and her choice to keep the baby is not presented as the "good" choice.
* GratuitousSpanish: In ''"La Isla Bonita"''.
* LyricalColdOpen: The quotes in ''"White Heat"'' start at the very beginning.

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* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: A lesbian appears in one of the booths of the stripper show watching Madonna dance in the video for ''"Open "Open Your Heart"''.
Heart".
* FanVid: Although Madonna already had a video for ''"True Blue"'', "True Blue", she ran a contest on Creator/{{MTV}} for a fan-made video that would be chosen as the "official" video for the song on that network.
* TheFifties: ''Jimmy Jimmy'' "Jimmy Jimmy" is a homage to Creator/JamesDean and the music video of ''True Blue'' "True Blue" shows Madonna driving around in a 1950s car.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The subject of ''"Papa "Papa Don't Preach"'' Preach" is an unwanted pregnancy which the singer gets from somebody. She decides that she's going to keep the baby instead of get rid of it. This trope is possibly subverted, though, as both her friends and father have advised her have an abortion, and her choice to keep the baby is not presented as the "good" choice.
* GratuitousSpanish: In ''"La "La Isla Bonita"''.
Bonita".
* LyricalColdOpen: The quotes in ''"White Heat"'' "White Heat" start at the very beginning.



* MoodWhiplash: Sandwiched in the middle of a bunch of light danceable songs is ''"Live To Tell"'', a dark brooding song which she recorded for her ex-husband Sean Penn's movie ''At Close Range''.
* OneManSong: ''"Jimmy Jimmy"''.

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* MoodWhiplash: Sandwiched in the middle of a bunch of light danceable songs is ''"Live To Tell"'', "Live to Tell", a dark brooding song which she recorded for her ex-husband Sean Penn's movie ''At Close Range''.
* OneManSong: ''"Jimmy Jimmy"''."Jimmy Jimmy".



* SmokingHotSex: The lesbian in the video for ''"Open Your Heart"'' lights up a cigarette after watching the show.
* SpokenWordInMusic: ''"White Heat"'' quotes the titular movie.

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* SmokingHotSex: The lesbian in the video for ''"Open "Open Your Heart"'' Heart" lights up a cigarette after watching the show.
* SpokenWordInMusic: ''"White Heat"'' "White Heat" quotes the titular movie.



** ''"White Heat"'' references the FilmNoir classic ''Film/WhiteHeat'' (1949) with Creator/JamesCagney. The quote ''Make My Day'' is a shout-out to Creator/ClintEastwood in ''Film/SuddenImpact''.
** ''Jimmy Jimmy'' is a homage to Creator/JamesDean.

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** ''"White Heat"'' "White Heat" references the FilmNoir classic ''Film/WhiteHeat'' (1949) with Creator/JamesCagney. The quote ''Make My Day'' "make my day" is a shout-out to Creator/ClintEastwood in ''Film/SuddenImpact''.
** ''Jimmy Jimmy'' "Jimmy Jimmy" is a homage to Creator/JamesDean.



* VideoFullOfFilmClips: The "Live To Tell" video has clips from Sean Penn's ''At Close Range'' intercut with Madonna sitting on a chair in a dark room with a spotlight on her.

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* VideoFullOfFilmClips: The "Live To to Tell" video has clips from Sean Penn's ''At Close Range'' intercut with Madonna sitting on a chair in a dark room with a spotlight on her.
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* TitleTrack

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* TitleTrackTitleTrack
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* [[AlbumCoverDesigners Album Cover Designer]]: Herb Ritts.
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* {{Dedication}}: The album was dedicated to "my husband, the coolest guy in the universe." This would later become something she would regret.

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* {{Dedication}}: The album was dedicated to "my husband, the coolest guy in the universe." This would later become something she would regret.a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
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* {{Dedication}}: The album was dedicated to "my husband, the coolest guy in the universe." This would later become HarsherInHindsight.

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* {{Dedication}}: The album was dedicated to "my husband, the coolest guy in the universe." This would later become HarsherInHindsight.something she would regret.
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* {{Dedication}}: The album was dedicated to "my husband, the coolest guy in the universe."

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* {{Dedication}}: The album was dedicated to "my husband, the coolest guy in the universe."" This would later become HarsherInHindsight.
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* {{Dedication}}: The album was dedicated to "my husband, the coolest guy in the universe."
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* DarkSecret: ''"Live In Tell"''. It's never revealed what that secret is, but the singer wishes to tell it someday.

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* DarkSecret: ''"Live In To Tell"''. It's never revealed what that secret is, but the singer wishes to tell it someday.
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* DarkSecret: ''"Live In Tell"''. It's never revealed what that secret is, but the singer wishes to tell it someday.
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* FanVid: Although Madonna already had a video for ''"True Blue"'', she ran a contest on Creator/{{MTV}} for a fan-made video that would be chosen as the "official" video for the song on that network.
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* TheFifties: ''Jimmy Jimmy'' is a homage to Creator/JamesDean and the music video of ''True Blue'' shows Madonna driving around in a 1950s car.



* MinimalisticCoverArt: Madonna's face in profile, head tilted backwards.



* ShoutOut: ''"White Heat"'' is one for the film of the same name featuring James Cagney.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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''"White Heat"'' is one for references the film of the same name featuring James Cagney.FilmNoir classic ''Film/WhiteHeat'' (1949) with Creator/JamesCagney. The quote ''Make My Day'' is a shout-out to Creator/ClintEastwood in ''Film/SuddenImpact''.
** ''Jimmy Jimmy'' is a homage to Creator/JamesDean.
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* OneTrueLove: The title track.
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!!!Track listing:
# "Papa Don't Preach"
# "Open Your Heart"
# "White Heat"
# "Live To Tell"
# "Where's The Party"
# "True Blue"
# "La Isla Bonita"
# "Jimmy Jimmy"
# "Love Makes The World Go Round"
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* OneManSong: ''"Jimmy Jimmy"''.
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* SmokingHotSex: The lesbian in the video for ''"Open Your Heart"'' lights up a cigarette after watching the show.
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* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: A lesbian appears in one of the booths of the stripper show watching Madonna dance in the video for ''"Open Your Heart"''.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The subject of ''"Papa Don't Preach"'' is an unwanted pregnancy which the singer gets from somebody. She decides that she's going to keep the baby instead of get rid of it.

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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The subject of ''"Papa Don't Preach"'' is an unwanted pregnancy which the singer gets from somebody. She decides that she's going to keep the baby instead of get rid of it. This trope is possibly subverted, though, as both her friends and father have advised her have an abortion, and her choice to keep the baby is not presented as the "good" choice.
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* SillyLoveSongs: The title track.
* SpokenWordInMusic: ''"White Heat"'' quotes the titular movie.
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* LyricalColdOpen: The quotes in ''"White Heat"'' start at the very beginning.
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'''True Blue''' is Music/{{Madonna}}'s third studio album, which was released in 1986. It contains the popular hits "Live To Tell", "Papa Don't Preach", "Open Your Heart", and "La Isla Bonita". Its title track, although it also became a hit, unfortunately became CanonDiscontinuity with the artist as it was written for her ex-husband Sean Penn.

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'''True Blue''' is Music/{{Madonna}}'s third studio album, which was released in 1986. It contains the popular hits "Live To Tell", "Papa Don't Preach", "Open Your Heart", and "La Isla Bonita". Its title track, although it also became a hit, unfortunately became CanonDiscontinuity with the artist as it was written for her ex-husband Sean Penn.Creator/SeanPenn.
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* MoodWhiplash: Sandwiched in the middle of a bunch of light danceable songs is ''"Live To Tell"'', a song which she recorded for her ex-husband Sean Penn's movie ''At Close Range''.

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* MoodWhiplash: Sandwiched in the middle of a bunch of light danceable songs is ''"Live To Tell"'', a dark brooding song which she recorded for her ex-husband Sean Penn's movie ''At Close Range''.
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* ShoutOut: "White Heat" is one for the film of the same name featuring James Cagney.

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* ShoutOut: "White Heat" ''"White Heat"'' is one for the film of the same name featuring James Cagney.
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* ShoutOut: "White Heat" is one for the film of the same name featuring James Cagney.
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'''True Blue''' is Music/{{Madonna}}'s third studio album, which was released in 1986. It contains the popular hits "Live To Tell", "Papa Don't Preach", "Open Your Heart", and "La Isla Bonita". Its title track, although it also became a hit, unfortunately became CanonDiscontinuity with the artist as it was written for her ex-husband Sean Penn.
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!!This album provides examples of
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The subject of ''"Papa Don't Preach"'' is an unwanted pregnancy which the singer gets from somebody. She decides that she's going to keep the baby instead of get rid of it.
* GratuitousSpanish: In ''"La Isla Bonita"''.
* MoodWhiplash: Sandwiched in the middle of a bunch of light danceable songs is ''"Live To Tell"'', a song which she recorded for her ex-husband Sean Penn's movie ''At Close Range''.
* TitleTrack

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