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A-ha - Take On Me (12" Version)

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"Take on Me" is a song by the Norwegian band a-ha. The song is a track from a-ha's first album, Hunting High and Low, released in 1985. The song was originally recorded in 1984 but was remixed for the release of the Hunting High and Low album.
Release and Reception The music video for the song was first broadcast in 1985 on local Boston music video station V-66, and then subsequently on MTV. The innovative video was an amalgamation of rotoscope-style animation and live-action. The video was inspired by the animated film Commuter create
d by Michael Patterson, and the movie Altered States.[1] An extended mix of this song appears on the Japan-only 45 R.P.M. Club EP. The music video of another a-ha song, "The Sun Always Shines on T.V.", forms a sequel of sorts. "Take On Me." was released in the Winter of 1984 but was re-released be
cause of its commercial failure for its first release. When the single was re-released it became the most successful song from Hunting High and Low with "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." on the rock charts and one of the bands most recognizable and popular song. The song peaked at number one on the Bi
llboard Hot 100 chart and number two on the British Singles Chart. The song would be a-ha's only number one single in America. At the MTV Video Music Awards on September 5, 1986, the video won six awards.[2] In 2002, the song was ranked at number 8 on VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders, although th
is status is often used incorrectly in the United States when labeling a-ha. Also, in 2006, the song was ranked at number 24 on VH1's "Greatest Songs of the 1980s".[3] The music video was spoofed by the animated comedy Family Guy in an episode entitled "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do" (Episode number 4
09). The song appears in the game Karaoke Revolution Party and all of the Samba de Amigo games. Music video The music video, directed by Steve Barron, utilizes extensive rotoscoping. It begins as a young woman (played by actress Bunty Bailey[4]) in a London cafe, reading a comic book about compet
itive motorcycle racing. The winner of the race, played by the band's lead vocalist Morten Harket, winks at the girl from the page. A cartoon hand reaches through the comic book, inviting the girl to enter his animated world. Through a creative effect they both view each other through a mirror whic
h shows them (and the band members) alternately in live action and animated. When the waitress of the cafe comes back for the bill she finds the girl missing and believes that she has left without paying. She angrily crumples up the comic book and throws it into the wastebasket. As this happens, tw
o of Harket's competitors in the race come back for revenge. One, wielding a pipe wrench, smashes the comic frame. Harket punches one of the thugs, and retreats with the girl into a maze created by the crumpled paper. Harket tears a hole so the girl can escape as he faces the two thugs. The entire c
offee shop peers over the counter at the heavily ink-stained girl lying on the floor. The startled girl grabs the crumpled comic book and runs out of the coffee shop to her home, where she tries to smooth out the creases. One of the panels shows Harket lying unconscious, and she begins to cry. Hark
et then wakes up and starts hitting against the edges of a comic frame. Suddenly, he appears in the girl's room, and throws himself back and forth within a door frame as he flashes between animated and live action. Eventually, he becomes the latter, and the girl and Harket embrace each other. There
is an earlier version of the music video, featuring the band in live performance [1]. Reel Big Fish version "Take on Me" "Take on Me" cover Single by Reel Big Fish from the album BASEketball Released 1999 Genre Third Wave Ska Length 3:14 Label Mojo Records Reel Big Fish singles chronology "Sel
l Out" (1997) "Take on Me" (1999) TBA In 1999, Third-wave ska band Reel Big Fish covered Take on Me for the film BASEketball. The song was later released on the BASEketball soundtrack and the internation version of their album Why Do They Rock So Hard?.

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