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
Don't Tell Me (Madonna song) Madonna performed "Don't Tell Me" at London's HMV Oxford Circus while promoting her ninth studio album "American Life". During the Re-Invention World Tour (2004), Madonna performed a "funked-up" version of the song, which was included on the show's acoustic themed third act. She was decked in a black Stella McCartney suit with matching hat and again enacted the video's choreography with her dancers. The performance featured a French skyline as backdrop and sampled The Verve's "Bitter Sweet Symphony" (1997). On January 29, 2014, Madonna made a surprise appearance at singer Miley Cyrus' first "MTV Unplugged" concert, and performed a mashup