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- The music video took months to make. The group teamed up with director Steve Barron, who helmed Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," for a short-form piece that mixed live action with rotoscoping illustration—never before used in a music video. "It was a dream to work with talent like that," Waaktaar-Savoy says of Barron.
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Oct 9, 2020 · By 1985, “Take on Me” had already been released as a single and a more standard music video, neither of which captured public imagination. But Jeff Ayeroff, an executive at Warner Records who ...
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Oct 26, 2015 · "Take on Me" is a pop culture touchstone—and a-ha couldn't care less. Waaktaar-Savoy admits that these days he rarely sees the video, which scored six MTV Moonmen in 1986.
- Madison Vain
Sep 17, 2020 · A-Ha burst onto the music scene in 1985 with their incredibly catchy tune 'Take on Me', and it's still one of the greatest pop songs ever made. But what inspired the song and who made its iconic partly-animated video?
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A-ha lead singer Morten Harket met bandmates Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy while all three were in their late teens. Furuholmen and Waaktaar-Savoy had already formed a group, Bridges, when Harket joined up. During one session, Furuholmen played the hook of what would eventually become “Take on Me” on the piano. After several years of ham...
At this point, many groups—and their producers—would have accepted the fact that their song was not resonating with audiences. But Ayeroff felt differently. For one thing, he perceived Harket to be a very handsome man who was ideally suited for the image-conscious MTV era. For another, he knew a dynamic video could capture the public’s imagination....
The many months of effort paid off. When the rotoscoped version of “Take on Me” debuted on MTV in 1985, it became a sensation, helping the single hit the topspot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. MTV bestowed 11 Video Music Awards nominations on the song, of which it won eight. (A-ha no-showed the ceremony, though, opting to play a gig in Houston ins...
May 18, 2022 · The phrase ‘viral video’ was non-existent when Steve Barron started making the promo for then-unknown Norwegian band A-ha’s Take on Me. Today, it’s clocked up more than a billion views on YouTube – despite the fact it was released nearly 40 years ago in 1985, and was created using an animation style that came to prominence in the 1920s.
- Emily Gosling
Oct 28, 2019 · For 16 weeks, all we did was sleep and work on the video, me in the living room, Candace in the kitchen. We made around 2,000 drawings. Nobody had ever seen anything like it.
Apr 5, 2022 · How long did it take to create the animation for the video? Candace: It took about 16 weeks.
