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| Title: La Isla Bonita Writers: Madonna, Patrick Leonard and Bruce Gaitsch Producers: Madonna and Patrick Leonard Album: True Blue (1986), The Inmaculate Collection (1990) and japan edition of Something To Remember (1996) Edition Date: It was the fifth single of True Blue, March 1987 Length of the album version: 4 ' 01'' Credits: ©1986 WB Music Corp./Bleu Disque Music Co. Inc./Webo Girl Pub., Inc. adm. by WB Music Corp. Ascap/Johnny Yuma Music BMI/Edge of Fluke Music . Ascap. | ||||||||||
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| La Isla Bonita is the last single from the True Blue album. Madonna included this song as a tribute to "the beauty and mistery of the latin-american people", although some may say it was some kind of marketing campaing to reach the latin community from USA. La Isla Bonita is an stylish recreation of bossa-nova music. In this song, there is a calypso mid-tempo rythm, with a soft percussion and a friendly bass which completes the personal Madonna recipe. Madonna herself gets a real latin fresh tone. This song is one of the best Madonna songs, specially by the latin speakers fans. As a curiosity you should know that this song was originally proposed to Michael Jackson before than Madonna (it's really hard trying to imagine Jacko singing La Isla Bonita). The song is about a love story that takes place in a wonderful tropical island, which Madonna remembers with emotion. In 1990, La Isla Bonita was remixed and remastered again to take part in Madonna's first greatest hits album: The Immaculate Collection. It also appears in the japanese edition of Something To Remember, Madonna's balads collection. | ||||||||||
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| Madonna has performanced La Isla Bonita in three of her world tours: Who's That Girl Tour, The Girlie Show World Tour, and the Drowned World Tour. As you can see in the images, the latin image has been in all of them.
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 The photograph is from the same photo session Herb Ritts made for You Can Dance. It is designed by Jeri McManus Heiden. |
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| It was the least successful USA single of the five singles from the True Blue album, just reaching #4. But it was really acclaimed worldwide, reaching #1 in UK and in Canada, and #5 in Japan. Strange as it seems it just reached a poor #8 in Spain. |
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| 1. Album Version (4:01) 2. Video Version (3:54) 3. 1990 Q-sound Remix (3:48) 4. Remix / Remix-Edit (3:58) 5. Instrumental Edit / Instrumental Remix / Instrumental (4:20) 6. Extended Remix (5:20) 7. Instrumental / Extended Instrumental (5:14) |
Madonna has always liked the latin world, and this has clearly reflected in her songs. With La Isla Bonita, she could show us her latin side for the first time, but it was really the first from a long list. In the famous show Saturday Night Live in 1985 we could hear her singing and speaking in spanish. In 1996 she dared to record a complete song in spanish (Veras), and she also got the role of one of the greatest women from Argentina, Eva Duarte. Lately, she had recorded an spanish version of What It Feels Like For A Girl (Lo Que Siente La Mujer), and she even got her own Flamenco Party in the Drowned World Tour.