True Blue (Madonna album) Awards, only four years into her career. She became the first female artist to receive such career achievement from MTV. Notes Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. !scope="row"|Italy !scope="row"|Worldwide True Blue (Madonna album) True Blue is the third studio album by American singer and songwriter Madonna, released on June 30, 1986, by Sire Records. She co-wrote and co-produced the entire album with Stephen Bray and Patrick Leonard. "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
Secret (Madonna song) and explained that she was "drawn to the rawness of [McDaniel's] film". Madonna wanted to tone down her image and according to McDaniel: Before meeting with Madonna, McDaniel first listened to the song and found it inspiring. When asked by the singer about her references for the video, McDaniel presented her with pictures from her favorite 1970s photographer, Bill Burke, who took pictures of people considered as freaks or inbred. Another reference was the photography book, "East 100 Street" by Bruce Davidson, which showed pictures of people in Spanish Harlem. Madonna let the director live in her New York apartment