Open Your Heart (Madonna song)

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"Open Your Heart"
Single by Madonna
from the album True Blue
B-side(s)	"White Heat"
Released	November 12, 1986
Format	7" Single CDVideo 12" Single and 5" CD Single
Recorded	??
Genre	Pop
Length	4:27
Label	Sire Records Warner Bros. Records WEA International
Producer(s)	Madonna Patrick Leonard
Madonna singles chronology
"True Blue" (1986)	"Open Your Heart" (1986)	"La Isla Bonita" (1987)
True Blue track listing
"Papa Don't Preach" (1)	"Open Your Heart" (2)	"White Heat" (3)
The Immaculate Collection track listing
"Papa Don't Preach" (9)	"Open Your Heart" (10)	"La Isla Bonita" (11)

"Open Your Heart" is a song by Madonna. It was the fourth song from her album True Blue to be released as a single. The single was a U.S. #1, entering the charts in December of 1986.

Contents 1 Song information 2 Tracklistings and formats 3 Official Versions 4 Chart Success 5 Trivia

[edit] Song information

In the music video, Madonna portrays an exotic dancer who befriends a young boy, played by a child actor/dancer Felix Howard. This video was originally to be directed by Madonna's then-husband Sean Penn, but in the end the final honours went to Jean-Baptiste Mondino, who went on to work with Madonna on her videos for "Justify My Love" (1990), "Human Nature" (1995), "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (1996), "Don't Tell Me" (2000) and "Hollywood" (2003).

The song was Produced by Madonna and Patrick Leonard. The video was also nominated for three Video Music Awards. The video has been described as paying homage to Liza Minnelli as the character Sally Bowels in the Bob Fosse directed musical Cabaret.

Madonna also decided to use one of her favorite artists work in the video, Tamara De Lempicka. Groups were outraged at the use of a minor entering a strip club and sharing a kiss with Madonna at the end. Madonna described the video as a statement about innocence.

After nine consecutive Top 10 singles in Australia, "Open Your Heart" only reached #16.

The song was the opener for the Who's That Girl Tour in 1987. Madonna also performed the song on her 1990 Blonde Ambition Tour. She hasn't performed the song live with vocals since then, only using it as a brief musical interlude on her 2001 Drowned World Tour.

Open Your Heart was orginally a rock song that had been shopped to the Temptations, who directed a verson of a more R&B sound but utimately passed. It was then considered for Janet Jacksons third album "Control" in which Open your heart became a more of a dance song that fit in with the concept of Control. When Janet passed on this song, Madonna took ahold of it and rerecored and rewrote a few lyrics and took into the version we hear on the record.

Despite being originally written in English, a Spanish version of the song titled "Abre Tu Corazón" was recorded by venezuelan rock singer Melissa (but she was born in Peru), who released it in March 1986 on her "Melissa III" album. Considering Madonna first released the song on the "True Blue" album three months afterwards, Melissa's "Abre Tu Corazón" can be considered the first released version of the song.

[edit] Tracklistings and formats

• US 7" Single

1. "Open Your Heart"
2. "White Heat" (LP Version)

• US 12" Single

1. "Open Your Heart" (Extended Version)
2. "Open Your Heart" (Dub)
3. "White Heat" (LP Version)

• UK 7" Single

1. "Open Your Heart" (Remix)
2. "Lucky Star" (Edit)

• UK 12" Single / UK Limited Edition 12" Picture Disc

1. "Open Your Heart" (Extended Version)
2. "Open Your Heart" (Dub)
3. "Lucky Star" (Full-Length Version)

[edit] Official Versions

• Album Version (4:18)
• Extended Version (10:37)
• Remix a.k.a. Edit of Extended Version (3:59) Vinyl/Tape Only
• Dub (6:42)
• Video Version (4:25)
• Remastered Version from The Immaculate Collection (3:51)
• Rafelson Writer's Demo (3:59) Unreleased

[edit] Chart Success

• United States: #1 for one week
• United Kingdom: #5
• Australia: #16

[edit] Trivia

• The song appears in the opening of the 2002 film Crossroads. Britney Spears' character lip syncs in her room with a brush in her hand, pretending it's a microphone. A Madonna poster is visible during the scene.

Preceded by "At This Moment" by Billy Vera and the Beaters

Billboard Hot 100 number one single February 7, 1987

Succeeded by "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi