Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics. The album earned Lauper several awards and accolades, including two nominations at the 29th Annual Grammy Awards. True Colors peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart. The album is Lauper's second best-selling release with around seven million copies worldwide.
By the end of 1985, Lauper was established as one of the best-selling artists in the world. Her first studio album She's So Unusual, was certified four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and received a diamond certification in Canada for sales in excess of one million copies, making her the first singer to achieve such a feat at that time. According to Billboard magazine, the music industry was eyeing Lauper's next steps anxious to know if she could maintain the success of her debut.
Lauper said that she had initially planned for Rick Chertoff, who had produced She's So Unusual, to produce what would become her second studio album; however, the experience with him was problematic and she changed her mind, and she likewise refused to produce the album with Rob Hyman since he was affiliated with Chertoff. True Colors was then produced by her and Lennie Petze, with Lauper also composing most of the songs on the album.
The title song, written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, has been covered by many other artists, and was used as the theme song for the 1988 Summer Olympics, the 2003 Rugby World Cup and for Kodak cameras and film. Over the years, the album tracks has been regarded as ambitious but in the other hand and in certain aspects date badly, like the highly reverberated and artificial sounding drums and keyboard which were really popular at the time, but there were a few remarkable tracks such as the intense and danceable "Change Of Heart."
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