base talk True Blue (Madonna) vs Whitney (Whitney Houston)

[Josh]

 

 

[suburbannature]

Both among their worst but with iconic singles, IMO

 

[Wildcat]

Open Your Heart? La Isla Bonita was right there.

[GoodGuyGoneGhetto]

 

 

Bigger Singles.

 

IWDWS >>>>>>> Live To Tell

Papa Don’t Preach > Didn’t We Almost Have It All

 

So Emotional > True Blue

 

Open Your Heart = Where Do Broken Hearts Go

 

La Isla Bonita > Love Will Save The Day 

 

It’s a tie.

 

Preferred Album.

 

Whitney.

 

I revisit this album more, not just for the singles but some of the great album tracks on it: “Just The Lonely Talking Again, Love Is a Contact Sport, You’re Still My Man”.

 

Bigger Classics.

 

”IWDWS” by absolute eons. It’s a bigger classic than most of Madonna’s and that’s saying something something because Madonna has plenty classics too. 

Edited December 11, 2023 by GoodGuyGoneGhetto

[naval23]

I Wanna Dance With Somebody is one of the biggest 80s classics ever. The fact it surpassed a billion on Spotify for an 80s single is insane, it's outstreaming "I Will Always Love You" 2:1

 

Both were massive eras, but True Blue spent 34 weeks at #1 on Europe's album chart, went 7x platinum in the USA, truly a global era

 

 

 

 

[Da Vinci]

I actually don't care for either and think they have way better albums that aged better, I just really hate that dated mid-80s sound, specifically those cheap sounding, hollow and echoey beats

 

But if I had to listen to either of them again I'd choose "Whitney"

[Nightingale]

TB has bigger singles overall. IWDWS is one of the biggest classics of all time but besides that it overshadows the rest of the singles. Papa Don’t Preach and La Isla Bonita and even Live to Tell get good streams 

 

I personally prefer TB