* 1 BILLION VIEWS!! *A-Ha - Take On Me (Official 4K Music Video) |REACTION
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- * 1 BILLION VIEWS!! *A-Ha - Take On Me (Official 4K Music Video) |REACTION
Welcome to Rob Squad Reactions This is a music reaction channel. My passion is being a content creator, and providing my audience with unique, funny, and never before seen reaction videos. I have come to grow a love for all types of music from my beloved rap to heavy metal and I want to share that love with all of you. Being a content creator is my passion and it brings me so much joy and being able to share my passion and joy with all of you and grow as a community is an amazing feeling. In addition to reacting to all different types of music, I am also a a husband to my amazing wife Amber and a dad to 3 amazing kids Bria, Kiya and Luca and also a Public school teacher. I am here to try and make a change in this world starting with something that brings us all together MUSIC!!
You are LOVED, you are APPRECIATED, you are BLESSED!!!
Love Jay and the Rob Squad
╔═╦╗╔╦╗╔═╦═╦╦╦╦╗╔═╗
║╚╣║║║╚╣╚╣╔╣╔╣║╚╣═╣
╠╗║╚╝║║╠╗║╚╣║║║║║═╣
╚═╩══╩═╩═╩═╩╝╚╩═╩═╝
If you enjoy this video and my reactions make sure you subscribe to the channel, like the video and comment down below which video you would like to see me react to next.
MY Family Channel (The Rob Squad): / @robsquadvlogs
2021 Goals
1.100K Subscribers
2. Be On a radio/ Talk show as a guest
3. Upload 1000 videos
This is a reaction video used to educated and give my feedback on the song and artist
||COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER -
www.copyright.....
UNDER SECTION 107 OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT 1976, ALLOWANCE IS MADE FOR "FAIR USE" FOR PURPOSES SUCH AS CRITICISM, COMMENT, NEWS REPORTING, TEACHING, SCHOLARSHIP, AND RESEARCH. FAIR USE IS A USE PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT STATUTE THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE BE INFRINGING. NON-PROFIT, EDUCATIONAL OR PERSONAL USE TIPS THE BALANCE IN FAVOR OF FAIR USE.
||DISCLAIMER
ALL VIDEOS ARE FOR ENTERTAINMENT/ NEWS PURPOSES PROTECTED BY FAIR ACT *FAIR USE* COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER UNDER SECTION 107 OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT 1976, ALLOWANCE IS MADE FOR “FAIR USE” FOR PURPOSES SUCH AS CRITICISM, COMMENT, NEWS REPORTING, TEACHING, SCHOLARSHIP, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH. FAIR USE IS A USE PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT STATUTE THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE BE INFRINGING. NON-PROFIT, EDUCATIONAL OR PERSONAL USE TIPS THE BALANCE IN FAVOR OF FAIR USE.
License
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
*Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS*.
#A-HaTakeOnMeReaction #FirstTimeHearingA-HaTakeOnMe #TakeOnMeReaction #RobSquadReactions #MusicReaction #RapFanReactsToTakeOnMe #MusicReactionChannel
Even by today's standards, this video is just amazing, and still holds up.
Definitely way ahead of it's time. I remember being so blown away by it.
Then Wheezer turns around and covers it and reminds us why this song slaps SO F***ING HARD!
Absolutely!! One of the best videos ever made!!
Cgi gets dated. Hand drawn is always impressive
This really was the video that made any other band want to be on Mtv
This video was in huge rotation on MTV back in the 80's. (Yes, MTV actually played music back then)
I wish they still had MTV the stuff on it now sucks.
Such a great video. Great reaction you two...just cool.
@@jeanstrickland2445 I miss the old Mtv so much. 🔥🤘😍
I remember the before times.
This and Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel played a lot.
Lead singer is Morten Harket. He can SING. Those notes are HIS. Amazing singer even to this day!
yep, no autone back then!
@@jorged06Yes. We get it. No autotune.
I was 29 in 85 .... this was one of the first music videos on the new MTV .... it blew our mind in 89 !!!!
Yes, this is also how it was introduced by the TV host in Taiwan back in 1985, like a pioneer music video at the time
the first ever video was "video killed the radio star" FYI
I was 24 years old when this song came out it was a loved song, I am 60 years old now. How time flies by!
I was 15 and brings back great memories
I was 1 year old. haha Was born in 1984. Missed those childhood days in late 80s to early 90s. The colorful shirts..grandmas and grandpas of never ending World War 1 & 2 stories. haha
@Dswan1 I was 10 years old when it came out, but the first time I actually heard it I was 13 branching out to different music. Fell in love with this immensely to this day of 48 years old 😊👍 This is forever my favorite song 🎵
@@Lokey21 The 80's was my favorite decade with some great music. I wish I could go back to the 80's.
I loved this song and video. I was 26 when it came out.
The genre of their music would be Pop, but typically referred to throughout 80's as New Wave. A-HA had over 25 top of the chart songs worldwide, but this was their only hit in the US. The lead singer is Morten Harket. They are still around too. I still love them after all these years.
Probably one of the THE BEST music videos ever made. The spinning move around the window with the animation and live video is such an incredible feat.
When fans refer to "greatest song of the 80's" I believe they mean to say music recording and accompanying video. In the case of "Take on Me" you really can't have one without the other. Just saying...
@@stevenmalham2234 yes you can, and they have many more innovative videos, but many more great songs & albums...their 11th, "True North" is out later this fall, their first on Sony Music...a-ha are one of my fave bands ever...
This is amazing, especially when you consider when it was done; we hadn't seen much if anything at all similar to this when the video came out. It was a game-changer.
That is my favorite part of the video. I can't imagine the amount of work since it was all done by hand. Crazy talented
I remember seeing somewhere years ago this rated second right behind Michael Jacksons Thriller for best music video of all time.
that shot were the camera rotates with the portal is like the most iconic shot in all of music video history imo
no cap i am astonished how in 1986 people pulled out this masterpiece
@@ashwathbp9444 theres a doc on TH-cam talking about how they did this
It bears the all-important plot point of never letting our lovers totally separate from one another. Their connection sill exists in the nexus of the coffee shop and trash bin (look closely). With great effort the two leads reunite and decide together which world (Reality/color) or (Artist/pencil) they will call home.
Oh, isn't the synthesizer playing in this song spectacular? I like the tone of the singer's voice. His high notes are remarkable and his vocal range is everything but baritone. Such fun energy in the beat, that I'm always glad to hear over and over.
If you all are into 80's, you have to do Tears for Fears -- Everybody wants to rule the world
And Shout too.
That's arguable the canonical 80s tune. Before long it seemed like every 80s singer sounded like that.
YEs Yes YeeeeeSSSSSS!!!!!
@@PVMe1967 oh YES!!
Yes yes please react to tears for fears
When it was played for the first time on British TV on a program called 'Top Of The Pops' this was totally cutting edge. There had never been anything like it before. Happy to say I saw it and was totally wow'ed - Still stands the test of time as a song and a video in my opinon.
This song spans 3 octaves. It's pretty incredible. Back when MTV played music videos 24/7 this one was played quite often. This video continues to amaze me even today. Also, great for driving. Don't get a speeding ticket. ;D
The beginning of new wave music.. Other big groups were New Order,Depeche Mode, Erasure,OMD,The Cure.. it's a great genre of music
I agree, it's New Wave and it's a great genre of music, they should definitely check out all of those bands!
Not really the beginning. There were a lot of new wave stuff in the late 1970s too.
Not new wave.
Agree would be considered New Wave
1985 les debuts ? ^^
What I love most about this song is that ANY nationality/race can vibe off of this‼️Even if you can’t dance 💃🏽 🕺 there is no way to mess up The Head Bop to this beat 😂❤
This is still one of the greatest, most creative videos ever made.
This is a-ha's greatest hit ever. The video for this song was one of the first if not the first to mix live and animated action, which made it an instant classic. About 2 yrs later, they made another video for the James Bond movie "The Living Daylights" that mixed live action with special visual animation. A-ha's 🎶 style was pop. Take on Me was their biggest hit in the American hemisphere. They're more famous and had bigger recognition in Europe ( they're from Norway).
This song reminds me of "Died In Your Arms" by Cutting Crew, another 80's hit!
Let's Not Forget,, "I've Been In Love Before",, Also A Great Song By Them.
Broken Wings by Mister Mister
@Brian Orzel BLASPHEMY 😂
Ooh, back when MTV mattered.
i.e. When it had music.
This song sounded in every nightclub in the whole world in the 80s. A-Ha have other hits, but Take On Me is by far their greatest hit. Greetings from Mexico.
The band is from Norway ❤ The video is iconic, 37 years old now. This would probably be categorised as Euro Pop at the time.
Another song they sang was "Hunting high and low", beautiful with a Scandinavian vibe.
Pop!! Pure 80's pop! lol.. the synth, the keyboards.. and you finally got to what an incredible vocal range and tone their singer has at the end.. which was a great feature of alot of 80's (think Peter Cetera, and Steve Perry as well).. thanks for the blast from the past!
This song and video blew ourminds back in the 80s. That drawing to live back and forth was cutting edge. Plus a great song.
This was so innovative back in 1985, we saw this video on MTV and we were floored by. Think about the limited technology of the day. As far as the style of music I would say *soft new wave.* Alphaville has a inspiring song called *Forever Young* which a lot of people and acts covered. So for the video trivia; the style of animation the artist are using a technique called *rotoscoping*, where they use tracing animation over live-action footage. The other odd things about the video the one that you're watching and everyone who seen it when it came out was a unfinished final cut that aired to world in1985. Also this version ( the most famous version) is its fourth release. Love Peace and Happiness Y'all !!
Well said, well described! I agree 100% and saw it first MTV when it first aired! Everyone loved it.
This whole album is fantastic! One of the best from the 80s!
For another cool animated video, try MONEY FOR NOTHING by Dire Straits
Oh man... another one of my favs.. oh yeah!
Yesss! That's another video that was wayyy ahead of its time. And a great song too.
Yup I always thought this was dire straits!!! 🤷🏻♂️😁
👍👍Good tune.
Mark Knopfler, right up there as one of the best guitarists ever !
I love A-Ha. They’re a Swedish Pop band. One of my favorite songs from the 80’s and I always loved the video!!
They are not from Sweden, but Norway ❤
Using rotoscope technology the music video won a Grammy for ingenuity and originality for a music video. It kick started a new era using rotoscope techniques in film, documentaries, and infomercials. Aside from being a one hit wonder, A-ha went on for another decade before breaking up. Ultimately though their musical opera Take On Me became an instant cult classic for all ages because of its poignant sound, artistry, acting, and action. If it wasn't just a music video it could very well be a fantasy live action film if there was a budget for it. The eighties era brought many music fans incredible sound, music, acoustic instruments, live bands and funky clothes that even youths today are wearing.
I hope you guys realize this is one of the most iconic music videos in history. The highly imaginative video drove the song to global success. The Reflex, Rio, Wild Boys, and Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran are prime examples as well - it's worth giving these songs a try...
I remember when this came out in the early 80s and I was a kid and couldn't believe how amazing this video was, I remember everyone as school talking about this video, it really was a groundbreaking video 📹 😍
Yes, it was considered pop. It was total top 40 back in the 80s. My favorite A-Ha video/song is The Living Daylights...their theme song to the James Bond movie of the same name
This is my favorite video by my favorite band! ❤80s
You guys are a beautiful positive couple….a complete joy to watch 😊
I honestly don't believe he hasn't heard this before. This song is everywhere, i would honestly say is one of, if not the most, iconic song of all time
Very true
Dude, watch their “Imagine” reaction .. they never heard that either.
If this one seems strange, They have reaction to "Africa" by Toto and claimed it's first time...
@@asafy8959 I think take on me is bigger that Africa
Some of us just haven’t heard a lot of popular songs. I’ve never heard of bohemian rhapsody until like 3 years ago.
Awesome cool video, MTV days, club days dancing to this, 💃🕺🎵
This song was HUGE in the 80's, this video blew peoples' minds because it was so unique. LOVE your reactions!!
This was definitely one the first really cool music videos made back in the day, and I have to say it still holds up. It's way better than most of the stuff that has come after to this day.
a-ha didn’t get a lot of airplay in the US other than “Take On Me”. They were pretty popular in Europe and crazy popular in their native Norway. If you want more a-ha, I would suggest “The Sun Always Shines on TV”, “Hunting High and Low”, “Looking for the Whales”, “The Weight of the World”, “Cry Wolf”, “Manhattan Skyline”, “Soft Rains of April”, “Maybe Maybe”, “Scoundrel Days”. They also did a theme song for a James Bond 007 movie, “Living Daylights”.
that about sums it up yeah =) agree with your choice almost 100 %
Thanks, Jay! Thanks, Amber! 🪞 This one was really big for me back in the day. I loved both the song and the video. And seeing it again for the first time in so long actually made me emotional. The story is so sweet. #RobSquadReactions #TakeOnMe #AHa
Best video of the 20th century for sure, maybe all-time. There is a *lovely* unplugged version of this that's more recent. It's so soft, understated, melancholy. Hits totally differently after all these years.
First videoclip that was showed in MTV! A-HA is one of my favorite bands!
Does anyone else feel like we should just get rid of genres that can keep someone from checking out great music?...its either great or not great...to little ole me anyways...I find music in all of them that I love.
YES! We need it all, quit labeling everything and just
✨ v i b e ✨
🥰💕🎶🎵🎹🎷🎸
I am foremost a rock fan especially heavy rock but still love certain older pop songs, some old school country and blue grass, classic motown etc. If a song is good it's good.
@Jamie Pritchard you are right. As much as people like to pretend how rebellious they are and whine about labels it is those labels that help us figure out what kind of music we like or what kind of music we are looking for or what kind of music a band is trying to put out there etc etc to not have labels or generous is unrealistic as cool and rebellious as it sounds to put them down.
This video was so way ahead of it’s time before computer animation & blew my mind away as an eight year old! Well done!
Yes 80’s POP. I was in high school at the time.
Look up the documentary story behind this video. shows how they did the cartoon look and dives into a rather sweet story between The lead singer and the girl in the video. They had never met before the day of the video shoot and they hit it off in a very sweet way and ended up dating for a time. The sweet looks they give each other in the video were authentic because they were into each other from day one.
GUYS! One of the most insanely ICONIC songs from the 80's. Theme song from "The Breakfast club," which is absolutely the first movie of it's kind (a "Coming of age" movie) and one of the most monstrous, influential movies of the era. It set the style, attitude, and theme for Gen X growing up (that's me, circa 1972). This is one you MUST (repeat "MUST) know and not forget.
Take On Me" is a song by the Norwegian synth-pop band A-ha. The original version, recorded in 1984 and released in October of that same year, was produced by Tony Mansfield and remixed by John Ratcliff. The 1985 international hit version was produced by Alan Tarney for the group's debut studio album, Hunting High and Low (1985). The recording combines synth-pop with a varied instrumentation, including acoustic guitars, keyboards, and drums.
exposure on MTV of director Steve Barron's innovative music video featuring the band in a live-action pencil-sketch animation sequence. The video won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards.
Lead singer Morten Harket and actress Bunty Bailey in a scene from the music video, which features them in a pencil-sketch animation / live-action combination
That video is fire! Morten Harket married Camilla I believe.in 1989, four years after this video was made . Pal and Mags are so talented as well
This is a trilogy video/recording. Everyone waited for the next song with accompanying video back in the 80's until the final came out with what actually happened to the couple. Was fantastic!
I firmly believe this is the best music video ever made. And yes, I'm comparing to any and all MJ videos. The concept, craftsmanship and execution, (and the fact that the song itself is a banger) is just amazing. Remember, none of this was done with computers or CG of any kind. This was all hand drawn, rotoscoped, frame matched painstakingly over EVERY FRAME where drawings overlapped real life. INCREDIBLE.
This was some New Wave music. New Wave was popular from the early to mid 80s. New Wave was kinda a mixed pop rock sound. New Wave songs could combine Rock,R&B and some Reggae.
Look up music by Blondie,ABC and Naked Eyes.
Techno-Pop. Their second album Scoundrel Days has a bunch of awesome songs. Give the title-track, Scoundrel Days, a listen.
FIRST! Hey Jay, hey Amber! Liked the video if anyone's wondering.... ;)
You're the best!
@@RobSquadReactions I like them every time I watch one. It's like my filing system. "Yes, I DID see this one!"
If you loved this version, you have to check out the MTV unplugged version. Morten Harket is the lead singer. The band is from Norway.
80s pop music was very good exercise music. You would probably like Crowded House and Human Nature. Opposites attract by Paula Abdul.
The 80's was the era of MTV where video and music became an art presentation form. Why the music of this time was significant was it gave a visual memory along with the music. It gave the artist another medium to express their music and create a stronger lasting memory. I'm rediscovering this era and some of the best music came out during this time. So when I remember the music I also picture the video that went along with it.
the video was wayyyy ahead of the times!! so glad you both love 80s music!
Don't forget "The Living Daylights" The BEST bond theme along with "View to a Kill" by Duran Duran.
Try Go West, another great 80's band, We close our eyes, King of wishful thinking, Goodbye girl, to name but a few 😉
This video is great, way ahead of its time, I grew up in the 80's and when I 1st saw this on night tracks, I was amazed.
Synth pop is the genre. One of my all time favorite songs. The video is my favorite!
I graduated high school in the 80's and this song brings me back to my days at the University of Florida… and that is all I will share.
I would say this genre is synth-pop, which was HUGE back in the eighties. The lead singer is Morten Harket, the band A-Ha is Norwegian and yeah, dude had some fine pipes on him. 😁 I was in my teens when this came out, and my younger sister had a HUGE crush on the guitarist (called Pal, pronounced 'Paul.')
If you're into eighties music, other brilliant bands I can recommend are Deacon Blue (at the very least you have to hear 'Chocolate Girl,' 'Real Gone Kid' and 'Dignity,') and Prefab Sprout (with 'Cars And Girls,' 'We Let The Stars Go,' 'When Love Breaks Down' and of course 'The King of Rock'n'Roll.') Both bands were much loved but criminally under the radar in their time.
A few years ago, on a UK TV panel show they had a spot where they brought on a guest for them to work out who it was. On one episode it was the girl from the video, grown into a very attractive middle-aged woman. She looked stunning.
The lead singer is Morten Harke. He has a huge range! The band is from Norway.
Probably my favorite music video from back then, and I grew up watching MTV when they actually played music.
My high school days … had lotta metal tapes in my Walkman but never had this but always appreciated it… cool video & song 🤘
The part of the video where the singer was bursting out of the cartoon into reality is a frame-for-frame recreation of the final scene from Ken Russell's mind-bending movie ALTERED STATES. You guys should try this one out on your movie reaction channel.
The author of the novel, Paddy Chayefsky, wrote the screenplay but withdrew because he and the director had disagreements. Oh well.
Loved the vocals on this tune, they were my favourite band for a good while.
I grew up in the 80s and if I ever had to pick 1 video to symbolize early MTV, this would be it. Timeless.
Rob Squad Reactions - This song is new wave pop, but most of a-ha's songs are actually quite dark and moody and have tragic themes. Morton Harket, the lead singer, once held the Guiness Book of World Record for holding a single note for the longest time. It was in a song called, "Summer Moved On".
Remember first seeing this as a teen on MTV. Way ahead of it's time
The ending always makes me think of Nik Kershaw's Wouldn't It Be Good.
An even better song (sorry, A-Ha Fans, I love this one, but I can just totally swoon over Wouldn't)
You're absolutely right!!
I'm 16 all over again...each time I hear this classic, it takes me back to those great years of my youth..
@Rob Squad Reactions
Fun Fact: The same year you guys reacted to this (2021), Morten Harket, the Lead Singer of A-Ha, decided to compete in "The Masked Singer," kind of, as a joke. He was sure the judges would know it was him. He even went out of his way to make it, as he put it, "blatantly obvious" by singing "Take On Me." Also, he was going under the moniker "The Viking." Morten Harket is Norwegian. Also, he's one of the only men in the world that can hit that high note in "Take On Me." Others have tried. Others have come close. But no man on the planet outside of a very select few elite singers can hit that note like Morten can. And despite his appearance on "The Masked Singer" being 36 years later, he STILL hit that note dead on. And guess what? STILL nobody guessed it was him! Nobody knew until he took the mask off! And yes you can find this on TH-cam. You should give it a watch. Morten sounds almost as good today as he did 37 years ago.
This song is fire.
This video is ART!!!
Remember when this video came out- the world thought it was Wako-Jako. One of the best creative videos of all time.
The lead singer is Morton Harket. He more recently did a slower version of this song that has a completely different feel, and, surprisingly, is excellent also.
1985 - still great today. Still one of my all time favourites (song and video).
Todd in the Shadows has made a short documentary about A-ha on TH-cam. It's worth checking out. "The Sun Always Shines on TV" is also a great song, but Todd will lead you to more.
Probably my favorite video. It ran a LOT when it came out when MTV actually showed videos back then.
This video won just about every MTV award there was that year.
Puff Daddy - every breath I take !
Just love when youngins finally hear our music
They are still an amazing band and still touring. I love that you love the story this video tells.
Definitely in the Top 10 of greatest songs and videos from the 80s
That video came out when I was 14…and started my life long love of A-ha…I’m 52 now lol
They were all studying at University in UK. Music just helped pay the bills as far as I know. But I definitely recorded this song from Top of the Pops onto a Sony Walkman.
They packed a whole "Twilight Zone" episode into a music video. Man, we were so spoiled for good music and good videos in the 80s!
Actually I think "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel was more of the Twilight Zone than this was...
In Germany that time, they promoted the uncut Michael Jackson video Thriller on MTV. In the beginning it was only shown from 11 p.m. Funny today, cool in earlier times.
Yes. But it was inspired and used some of the ideas from the movie Altered States. Especially the ending.
@@robertmwilliams great film and great ending and you're the only person I know thats ever flagged it!
This video was all over MTV and still one of the most unique ever made. Remember it running on the TVs in a dive food joint on campus during my freshman year (1985 at Marquette).
This song IS officially the best selling song of the whole 80's decade as well as the music video. Both won more awards than any other of several decades.
I mean…there is Thriller, soooo
@@collegebro85 That was my first thought, too... Btw. I hated this Jackson- clown...
Really according to whom? Are you talking a single country, worldwide? It certainly was not in the UK or America. Uk was Band Aid with Do they know it's Christmas as the best selling song, This was at 92, so a long way off number 1. I could not find a single country where this was best selling song. As such could not of been best selling of the decade you claim it to be. As for Video, again could not find it listed as best video according to sales, however may have been the most played on streaming platforms such as MTV> Maybe. Certainly is one of the most played on TH-cam. That however is not sales.
@@davidroberts794 Wow...WTF is with your hostile attitude. I don't post stuff that is incorrect. (Nor do I come here to argue.) Over 3 different sources confirm what I said. Your searching skills suck. Don't take it out on me. Sounds like you hate the group or are jealous in some way. 72 people before you already gave my comment a thumbs up because they like the song and are aware of the Mega-Hit it was. Keep searching until you see your premature bashing of my post was unnecessary.
They were a Norwegian group. This song was released 4 times before becoming one of the biggest songs of the 80's.
It's got a billion views and now you can see why - it never gets old. 80s electro pop rock.
New Wave
Morton Harket
lead singer.Think the group still together....well just
I love it. It was always my favorite music video.
New Wave/Synth pop
@@kevinmoore292980s synth pop actually. New wave was 1977 to 1981.
This Norwegian pop group won a Grammy for this video. Still iconic to this day. Thanks for watching and sharing your opinions with us. You fans love you too.
The band is Norwegian, the video is British but musicians don't usually care about nationality.
@@dennislindqvist8443 The video is actually American. It was the Americans that picked up A-ha and delivered them. The Brits did not put enough effort into the band to help them break through.
@@ahkkariq7406 actually, they got their record deal in London, the first single version from 1984 was a bomb...only the rerecording & video did the trick...yes the US broke the song & band first but only overseas markets took to the band longevity-wise...the US label was fickle, currently, their upcoming album "True North" out later this fall is #11, their first with Sony Music, they have had at least 17 Top 10 hits worldwide & have had an innovative sound with lots of depth & variety & range, from synth sounds to guitar crunch & great songwriting, vocals, harmonies, musicianship & arrangements...they are one of my all-time fave bands & Coldplay owe their careers to a-ha, even U2 paid homage in "Beautiful Day"...the Touch Me lyric is a nod to "The Sun Always Shines On TV"...also the Doors are a major influence on a-ha...
@@lawrencedavis4406 Sure. I am aware of these things.
And on mtv . their sooo cool .
This video was ground-breaking at the time. So cool… 🔥🔥🔥
YES - won awards - unique and lovely! (even apart from the music itself - which was catchy and fantastic... especially the range of vocals)
And it still looks good after all these years!!
This is the equivalent of today's Marvel movie cgi for the 80's..... You're 100% correct
and its still impressive all these years later
@@Tyrannosaurus_STFU_III it is all hand-made. No filters, no computers. Computers could not do that at the time. It is literally drawn frame by frame. That’s why it still looks lit.
I’ve seen them live and it blew me away that Morton Harket can sing like this live, great talent, great voice 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
30 years later and he can still hit that high note...amazing talent
He's not from those countries or idk why the flags lol
The 80 dingers were real singers no autotune and the one that still sing now dont use autotune they dont need it.
The 80s are immortal. There will never be another era like it .
Sadly No. I thank God I was a teen in the 80s. Great times.
Agree 💯 👍
Oh absolutely 💯 👌
That's what they said about the 1880's and now no one even remembers Funiculi Funicula.
Unfortunately not for sure, but if you do look at some trends in fashion and music over the last 4 years. we’ve seen some 80s style clothing but 90s and 70s came along too.
The technology was entirely hand-drawn. Rotoscope animation converted film into animation by artists painstakingly drawing the animation images over film, frame by frame. The genre is New Wave/Pop. That song is so catchy.
Damn...you know stuff! Thanks!
Also it might be worth mentioning that the artist who drew the animations is named Michael Patterson 😉
... and it took 16 weeks to do the animation!
@@parisbratThere is a series videos on TH-cam about making the song/video as a buildup to it hitting a billion views. Just search for making of take on me.
This is one of the greatest songs of the 80s. I LOVE A-Ha's harmony and their lead singer has phenomenal range!
I remember how huge this was back in the 80's, it seems like its even bigger now. 1 billion views for a 35 year old song, and it been covered by so many artists.
@@ExperienceEric yeah me too, and that status is both a blessing & a curse on a-ha, their career & massive catalogue...yes many know the song but not the band, many don't know that the band is still an ongoing concern & that they are far from 1-hit wonders...many don't know they have a new album out soon, "True North", later this fall, and its accompanying film was shown in theatres worldwide just recently on September 15...yes the song & video are great & a landmark, but that's not all the band are about...
Fantastic band. It took 16 weeks to draw the 3,000 drawings used in the video. The artist is Michael Patterson. He made a film as a student called Communter. The film was later used in the music video for "Train of thought", also a-ha (pronounced ah-ha). In 2019, Take on me had been played on the radio an average of 350 times a day for 35 years in the United States. You couldn't have avoided hearing it. The song was boosted by the video, but obviously stands well on its own. The sequel, The sun always shines on TV is epic!
Agreed 👍 I was just checking out the comments to see if anyone had yet recommended that song as the next one they should listen to. I used to check out lps from the library as a kid and was lucky to find them and some of their recordings available there. I totally recorded them to cassette tapes on my dad’s stereo. 😂 I still have some of those tapes ✌️💜Love to watch you guys learn about older music like I did when I was younger. Records were a big part of my musical education 😂❤
The group originally came from Oslo Norway .... they came to the capital of London ,in the United Kingdom. In 1982 ,to start a career in music .
And the actual name if the group A-Ha.... came from a song they found terrible, but liked the concept for a group name .
A ha was chosen as the language ,that they as Norwegians spoke.
To what they Knew best of the English language.
Pardon my spelling mistakes ,I've just noticed.
And the girl became his girlfriend.
The entire album "Hunting High And Low" is a stunning masterpiece of light and darkness.
My generation took for granted how good the 80's music had been. Great to see young people still enjoying it.
In our defense we didn't have anything to compare it to 😂. Now looking back we can now see wow, we were lucky as heck.
But remember every era, including now, is loaded with great art. When we look back we view and listen thru a filter. But when we are in the middle of an era, we see and hear all the greats and all the mediocrity. However, in the rear view of time we just get the goodies. I think we all tend to down grade current music and hype the past. I realized I did this after looking back to songs I love in times I said ...at the time...sucked.
I NEVER took the music, the videos, the VHS cassettes for granted. From Blondie (1979) "Heart of Glass" and "Call Me" through to Stevie Winwood (1986) "Higher Love" and "Back in the High Life" The years between were miraculous. New Wave to 1980's Synthetic Pop.
@@Swonder1972Doesn’t matter what lens you’re looking at, but the 2010s is filled with trash music. I wasn’t even alive in the 80s and graduated high school in the 2010s. There’s no nostalgia for me to have a bias and 2010s SUCKS
@@robertsmalls3513 There is always great music... often underground. Trust me, there was a ton of trash in the 80s and 90s...We just edit out the mediocre when viewing hindsight...
A-HA from my country Norway. They have a lot of good songs. On 19th Oct 1985, A-Ha went to No.1 on the US singles chart with “Take On Me”. Lead singer is named Morten Harket. Some of their songs thats really good is: The sun always shines on tv, Summer moved on, Crying in the rain. Another of the band members has his own band called Savoy, you guys should check out one of his songs called: Velvet. Pretty good.
Their cover of Crying in the Rain is just hauntingly beautiful. His voice just suited it so well.
Hallo fra Oslo! 😁🇳🇴
Norway in 1980's : A-ha's land
Norway in 2020's : Haaland's land 😆😆
I was 22 when this song came out. I met my wife the same year and we both enjoyed hearing this song.
I saw them play live on the Grammy Awards in the 80s. Kenny Rogers was the host. When Morton finished singing and they cut back to Kenny. Kenny's mouth was open wide, he looked at the camera and said. "Oh my god, my voice does not do that."
Their acoustic version of this song from Unplugged is absolutely gorgeous
Every time Deadpool 2 is on TV (like every other weekend) I make sure to catch the brief scene that it's used in.
Hunting high and low, Stay on these roads..
Morton just did an acoustic version on the UK version of The Masked Singer.
" The Magicians" version of this song turns it 180 degrees and changes the meaning completely
The first time I ever heard the acoustic set you were talking about, I almost cried. I never noticed how sad this song is until I heard the strip down slow down acoustic set. The acoustic version has got to be one of my favorite versions of any song of all time. And I’ve lived for 50 years so that’s saying a lot. Lol