True Blue (Madonna song) (1987) and the Rebel Heart Tour (2015–2016). When Madonna had started working on her third studio album, "True Blue" in 1985, she was already in a relationship with actor Sean Penn whom she married by the year-end. It was the first album that the singer acted in the role of a record producer and wanted to add her own "sophistication" to it. Her optimism assimilated in the songs created, including the title track, which she co-wrote and co-produced the song with Stephen Bray. According to Madonna, "True Blue" takes its title from a favorite expression of Penn and to his
Radio 1 Madonna controversy was generally in support of Madonna, with "The Sun"s Dan Wootton criticising Radio 1's decision to not play the track. Describing the station's daytime playlist as the "Cray List" in his column, Wootton listed several artists who struggle to receive Radio 1 airplay, including Robbie Williams, Take That, and Meghan Trainor. Madonna posted a newspaper clipping that featured the story on her Twitter and Instagram accounts, and thanked her fans for their support. In an interview with Wootton in "The Sun", the singer called the omission "unfair" and "discriminatory", and felt that ageism was a taboo that is still not