THIS VIDEO WAS FREAKING PHENOMENAL !!! I HOPE YOU GUYS ENJOYED MY VIDEO! I DID HAVE SOME MAFAUNCTIONS TOWARDS THE END THAT I DIDNT RECONGNIZE UNTIL IT WAS UPLOADED. FORGIVE ME😔
Well done! To me, this is probably the most satisfying reaction to this song I've seen so far. No overacting, I can see in your facial expression how drawn you are to the story and it was all great! Keep this kinds of reaction coming.
I was 16 years old when this song and video was released in 1985, after several failed attempts in 1984. On the 14th of February 2020, a month before covid shutdown I was privileged enough to see A-ha perform live in Cape Town, South Africa! Absolute dream come true!
The animation technique is called rotoscoping. Today, it's done by computer. In 1984, it was done by hand. Every single frame. An amazing piece of work.
Yes it was in the 80's & I was in my 20's at the time! Just a fabulous song with so much work put into the video itself so long ago! Love, love, love it 💝💝
The technology is called rotoscoping. Basically they took the live action video and then 2 artists drew illustrations over the film, frame by frame, manually. It was over 10k frames to illustrate, it took months to finish it. But they've created a masterpiece that was ahead of its time.
It took 6 months for the artists to animate the drawings in this video. No camera filters or anything in 1985. It was revolutionary at the time and still looks amazing.
I think they still hold that guiness record for the biggest number of audience attendance since 198,000 people had PAYED to watch their live gig in RIO.
This video was voted one of the best music videos in the 1980's. I was 15 years old in 1985 when MTV aired the music video. It was one of my fav music videos then. The 1980's was SUCH an awesome decade
Eyyy, Norway with the old school classic's! His name is Morten Harket fyi :) They have a lot of great songs, they did great in Scandinavia though their music did not stay that popular in the states. My recommendations as a Norwegian myself would be The Sun Always Shines on T.V or High and Low, both great songs!
Was in my teens when this came out.We all youngsters then got blown away at the time with both the song the video and Mortens' exceptional voice.You gotta do a research on wiki about it.This iconic clip is historicIt ,wraps a whole era within.Classic.Gr8 reaction.
If nearly 40 years after the video was made and still left people speechless the effects transitions between live action and rotoscoped cartoon, I can only imagine how mindblowing it was seeing that for the very first time back in 1985.
First of all thankyou for reacting to AHA and take on me. I became an AHA fan back in 1985 when this song and video came out. I was 16 years old then and i’m 53 now and i still love them as much now as i did back then. AHA are a trio of men from Oslo,Norway. They are a criminally underrated and unappreciated band of extremely talented musicians with a huge back catalogue of music each song is different from the last one. Take on me is just the tip of a very, very large musical iceberg but don’t take my word for it check out more of their music for yourself and you’ll soon get what i’m talking about. I describe AHA as the viking invasion of 1985 that entered my heart and never left. A great AHA song to check out is SUMMER MOVED ON it is on the guinness book of records for the longest note held in a song something like 25.5 seconds without taking a breath. Thanks again and i hope you’ll react to more of AHA’s music. Take care 😘🏴🇳🇴❤️ #AHA FOREVER ❤️🇳🇴
First off, A- HA are in my top 5 favourite bands of all time. I am straight but I always thought that the lead singer to be the most beautiful man ever born. A relative said he is too good looking. Go figure.
At the time, in 1985, that video clip was a revolution, it was the first video clip to be made with the "comic strip" effect. Today, in 2024, you can simply make a video like this on a cell phone. Another phenomenal video is Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer" from 1986.
The Take On Me music video blew people away when it came out in 1985. This was before CGI was being used in movies. They used a process called rotoscoping where the entire video is filmed in live action then the animated parts are hand drawn over each frame of video. It took several months to get the video made and the end result was worth it.
First (and I think so far only?) number 1 billboard hit by a Norwegian band, way back in 1985. The video was mindblowing for the time, and of course this being before computers were advanced enough, each frame of film of those mixed real/cartoon scenes had to be drawn over by hand, frame by frame. It's a shame this song caused them to be seen as a "one hit wonder" in the USA, because they had a lot of good songs, and in the UK this wasnt even their highest charted song (this reached number 2 there, while the follow-up single, The Sun Always Shines On TV, reached number 1). They also did the theme song for the Bond film The Living Daylights
Love your reaction to this song and video. A-ha has a lot of great songs. You should listen to the follow up, "The sun always shines on TV". In the beginning of that video you can see what happens to the couple. "Train of thought" also has a video using this technique, called rotoscoping. In that song Mortens voice is amazing, he is really showing his vocal on the lower scale of the range.
We didn't have cable at the time, so Friday night videos was the only time I could catch watching them, well and maybe on a couple other pop music centered tv shows. I was lucky in getting this video taped off it one night. I watched it so many times. Just play and rewind. Wish I knew what happened to that video tape. can't remember.
1984 for using Rotoscope was not groundbreaking but was probably one of the earliest used in modern music videos. The earliest use of Rotoscope was probably 1915 in Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.
I’m pretty sure that at least 30 to 40 people had to animate this. It would take 1 person almost close to 5 years to animate the whole project. And I’m pretty sure the introduction was just recording on sheets of paper with drawings like the racing cars and the flag, drawing effects, etc.
Aha is a great band and they have many songs equally as good or even better than take on me but most people havent heared them. If you want to check out more of their music i would definately recommend; the sun always shines on tv, stay on these roads, manhattan skyline and many many more!
That's so you can understand that we were well advanced before this generation. This new generation think that they are the innovators of all new things when they are nothing more than followers
I see you have a really good eye for art, Ri. This was very groundbreaking and iconic in it's time, just think, that they had to do this animation frame by frame! Keep in mind video is 30 frames per second for a 4 minute song.. That's over 7200 frames of individually, hand drawn, animation! It's quite the accomplishment and an amazing a piece of art.. great job Ri!
They're a Norwegian band so they were kinda like a one hit wonder here, but they're well known elsewhere, tons of great songs all the way into the 2000's, and they're videos are phenomenal with this type of stuff, with paper in particular. I highly recommend you watch them and try to watch them in order because some are like sequels and connect into each other. I think "the sun always shines on tv" is the next song. And yeah the lead singer is unreal, haha, a record producer's dream I bet.
One thing you can say about 80's music was that this was the golden era of music videos. This song is classic 80s and the video was just as classic. For another great 80s song with an iconic music video, check out "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits.
Pretty sure they just filmed it in real life, then went back and traced the images, drawing it frame by frame. I love the result. Legendary song and video.
The incredible art work, directing, production and perfect timing as in the prime MTV before the Cancerous culture and the dollar attached to it killed it. Sad. Im 72. The 80s get a bad rap.
Smart girl, not that many reactors appreciate the work that went into making that video. You covered all the bases, vocals, instruments and video, great job.
LoL!; These kids nowadays days love the videos. It's trips out how they freak out on this video. My sons favorite video even though he's only 15years old.
The 80s were not a technological stone age, and good drafters and graphic artists are born all the time, only the Internet and mobile phones were absent then, and computers were already around then. Also, much more money was spent on the production of video clips at that time, because what someone liked, you had to buy it on vinyl, cassette or CD and you could not download it anywhere illegally, so it was a 100% generated profit.
late to the game watching you reaction. LOVED it! it's funny watching people react to this for the first time in the 2020's amazed at how awesome this is ...since it came out in the 80's. then remembering the first time my friends and i saw it in the 80;s and how amazing we thought it was ...since it was in the 80t's and we had never seen anything like this. Got yourself a new subscriber here.
Yeah, the video was a majorly impressive piece when it came out... the technique it used was decades old but it'd never been used like that and they got a budget and effort for a music video that was basically unheard of (excepting one other video that year). They spent what was, for today's money, around $400-500K, did thousands of individual hand drawings for the animation, and took months just for the drawing portion... let alone putting the whole thing together. They basically got handed and used the time and money of a minor film during an era when videos were starting to become more experimental on MTV.
@Ri-Up I was very surprised that you didn’t move… at all. 😂😂😂 I mean the melody to this song usually makes people wanna do something 🕺💃🏽 For me the music just takes me over and this is coming from a Rap/R&B lover. This song came out in 1985 and it will never get outdated 💕😃
Because she was too focused on the storyline - which was good. Reactors who add dance to their reactions don't seem to be truly absorbing the video. They have to also focus in their "dance." This girl decided, instead, to focus, fully, and "take it in."
The animation method is called rotoscope. They film the entire video, and then artists hand-draw the animation over the film, frame by frame. That's what allows for that perfect merging of animation and live action. Super labor-intensive, thus expensive, thus nobody does it anymore.
One of my Ex-Girlfriends worked in video special effects... She said that she had no idea how they made it. Well, she knew they way did it, but she said that recreating it with a computer would be a lot more dificult
Ayeeeee I like this song. If I'm not mistaken they are from Sweden and sad this song was under my 1 hit wonders playlist. I have heard that the lead singer and the girl date for a little bit in real life. Shout out to the 80s babys lol you seem to like Patrick Swazye and what happened at 6:38? Like there was some song playing while you was talkin. Maybe it was on my end
Yea, I didn’t realize it was little off at the end while I was talking. I noticed that after I uploaded it, my apologies. I love me some Patrick Swayze. 💕
@@RiUp I didnt create the playlist lol all i did one day was in my YT music app typed in 1 hit wonders and this was amongst the songs that played. I was curious at work that day lol. Idk any of their other songs
@@RiUp Ahhh ok ok Mr Ghost, roadhouse and noone puts baby in the corner lol he was a great actor. Since you like him then heres a link that you would enjoy reacting to with him in it lol ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-stqG2ihMvP0.html
Looks like you enjoyed that. A-ha were a great band. If you'd like to listen to another of theirs try The Sun Always Shines On TV , one of the best intros of all time. Another must listen and video is Rio by Duran Duran , absolute perfection.
React to “We Are the World” by U.S.A. for Africa. It’s a charity single and it features all the singers you know. Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Rogers, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, James Ingram, Etc. it is very beautiful. It has a crowd of these celebrities that make chorus.
I recommend a song, or if you even would call it a song. It's called "Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen". I remember hearing it the first time when I was a teenager, even then it hit different. And I can tell ya, nowdays it is pretty spot on. It started first as a speech from an essay. The lyrics are taken from a famous essay - written in 1997 by Mary Schmich, a columnist with the Chicago Tribune, but someone decided to add music and a video to it and it sure hits home. You'll understand when you listen to it.
Sold only 308.000 copies worldwide. Mags wrote the theme around 14 years of age. The Cartoon is called Rotoscoping and was pioneered by Walt Disney in the 30s. Just 2 guys sketched the entire video. Morten Harket is far better looking. A masterpiece. Met him Charles De Gaulle airports, Paris 86...
Completely unrelated to music but if you want another bit of unique animation, please check out the film "Loving Vincent" the world 1st and only oil painting film, you'd also probably be interested in the making of "Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream". The film deals with the life and death of world renowned artist Vincent Van Gogh and the film is painted in his unique style. It took 125 artists and 65,000 paintings to make the film, it is an amazingly beautiful film that any fan of the arts should see. On a musical note, and in keeping with Vincent Van Gogh, famous folk singer Don McLean of the song "American Pie" fame, wrote an amazing and hauntingly beautiful tribute song to the great artist, simply titled "Vincent" but is often, mistakenly referred to as "Starry Starry Night", that I highly recommend reacting too. As for how the video was made, my guess is they shot a full-length live action video and then had a team of artists sketch out the animated portions from stills, so they could blend the 2 seamlessly.
Sade - Is it a crime: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NYz8xs163YU.html Sade - The Sweetest Taboo: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kcPc18SG6uA.html
Seem to remember the beckoning hand scene was done by a hole being cut in the table and someone crouched under the table putting they hand through.then rotoscoped with the a ✏️
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