Madonna, Open Your Heart | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

In the 173^rd edition of Throwback Vibez (2023), we recollect and reflect on “Open Your Heart” by Madonna. 

The vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace this column are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome. In the 173^rd edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2023), we recollect and reflect on 🎵 “Open Your Heart”, performed by 🎙 Madonna.

“Open your heart ❤️ to me, baby / I hold the lock 🔒 and you hold the key 🔑,” 🎙 Madonna sings in the chorus of 🎵 “Open Your Heart”, the second track on 💿 True Blue. The musical icon sounds exuberant from the onset of the record, which is quintessential 1980s. The production (Madonna and 🎛 Patrick Leonard) helps fuel ⛽️ her fire 🔥.  The backdrop is groovy to the nth degree, filled with rhythmic guitars 🎸, keys 🎹, and synths. It should come as no surprise that “Open Your Heart” is one of the 38 top 10 hits and 12 no. 1 hits by Madge.  “Open Your Heart” spent one week atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987 after making its debut in December 1986.

Madge is particularly turnt up in the chorus of “Open Your Heart,” which continues, “Opens your heart to me, darling / I’ll give you love if you, you turn the key 🔑.” Of course, it’s not merely the chorus that makes “Open Your Heart” the sugar honey iced tea 🧋.  Melodically, the verses are quite tuneful. Furthermore, lyrically, the diva brings the heat 🥵 too. “If you gave me half a chance,” she sings in the first verse, “You’d see my desire burning inside of me / But you choose to look the other way.” Oh, snap 🫰! In the second verse, she adds, “You’re too wrapped up in yourself to notice / So, you choose to look the other way / Well, I’ve got something to say.” The songwriting is entertaining, with Madonna making it clear she wants him to give a relationship with her a chance.  🎵 “Open Your Heart” is a gem 💎 that speaks for itself.

🎙 Madonna • 💿 True Blue • 🏷 Warner • 🗓 1986

Madonna, Open Your Heart: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 173 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Warner; John Alan Sperry, PIRO via  Pixabay]