Open Your Heart

“ Open Your Heart ” ( Opens your heart ) is a song of Madonna, fourth extract of its album True Blue , carried out in individual in November 1986 and written by Madonna, Gardner Cole, and Peter Rafelson.

Information on the title

“Open Your Heart” was in the beginning a pop song/rock'n'roll which would have been written for Cindy lauper, the group funk The Temptations showed an interest in the song but it is Madonna who was the first and thus single interpreter of the title deteriorating the words and giving him a base line to make a version of it more Dance, after having heard the song of Madonna Temptations changed opinion.

The song was proposed in Madonna who did not accept it immediately, the song was called “Motor City Girl”, Co-written by David Bryant, it is of aillor Jason Scheff the singer of the group Chicago which interpreted the demonstration of “Open Your Heart”. Bennett Freed, the manager of Gardner Cole belonged to Weisner and Demann management, Freddy Demann who had heard the new song had said himself that it would act there, of a tube for Madonna and request to Gardner to make interpret by the demonstration a woman, it thus asked has Donna DeLory, to sing it, it is of aillor at this time that Donna became acquainted with Patrick Leonard which made the suggestion include it as chorus-singer for Who' S That Girl Tour.

Chronology

the song was classified sixteenth with the Australian classification, thus breaking the chain of nine individual classified consecutively in signal 10 in this country.
the title makes the opening of Who' S That Girl Tour in 1987 but also interpreted at the time of the Blond Ambition Tower in 1990 like into small interlude musical at the time of Drowned World Tour in 2001.
In 1990, the song is remixée by Shep Pettibone and Michael Hutchinson for the realization of Greatest Hits: " The Immaculate Collection ".
In 1995, the individual one is republished out of individual CD for Germany as well as the majority of the other individual ones of Madonna.
the song appears in opening of the film " Crossroads " in 2002.

Video clip

In the turned video clip with Echo Park with Los Angeles to California, Madonna presents herself as a stripper who binds friendship with a little boy played by the young actor and dancer Felix Howard who will also form part of the troop of Who' S That Girl turn (and not Leonardo Di Caprio like some one believed). This video was to be directed at the beginning by her husband of the Sean Penn time but it is finally the French realizer Jean-Baptiste Mondino who will obtain the project, first among so much of others of which " Justify My Love" (1990), " Human Nature" (1995), " Coil Don' T Live Here Anymore" (1996), " Don' T Such Me" (2000) and " Hollywood" (2003).

The video nominated for three MTV Video Music Awards is described as being a homage to Liza Minnelli and its character Sally Bowles in the musical film " Cabaret " of Bob Pit. Madonna also chose to use one of works of Tamara De Lempicka of which it is owner, he acts indeed of " Andromède enchainée" , work of style Art déco, the nipples of andromède will be replaced by luminous bulbs, which will not like the descendant of the family, especially used for the frontage of a bastringue, the groups of morality either did not appreciate the image of a minor entering a club of striptease as well as the kiss exchanged with the singer, who will defend her work to be simply in connection with innocence.

Directing: Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Producing: David Naylor, Sharon Oreck
Director of the photography: Pascal Lebegue
Place: Park Echo in Los Angeles (California)
producing Company: O Pictures
Costumes: Jean-Paul Gaultier

Official versions

The version " Extended" and " Dub" song contain additional words where Madonna known as: " Well, are you gonna go out with me gold not? What' S the matter, you scared off me gold something? " .

Album Version (4: 18)
Extended Version (10: 37)
Remix Edict (Edict off Extended Version) (3: 59)
Dub Version (6: 42)
Video Version (4: 25)
Shep Pettibone /Michael Hutchinson mix (3: 51) (The Immaculate Collection)

Classifications

Recoveries

a recovery was made by the singer Israélienne Ofra Haza, it has of aillor recorded two different versions for the album homage: Virgin Voices vol. 2 a few years before its untimely death.
Of other Spanish versions of the song one also realized with the passing of years, most recent is that of the Mexican singer Erika and the group El Ruedo under the title " Abreme You Corazon".

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