When you think about the fact this video was made over 35 years ago, it really does stand the test of time as one of the best videos every produced. I love it when I was 15, and I still love it today. Cheers!
@@albamartinez4987 35 year's ago i got my haircut like Morten harket and I used to wear leather string around my wrist, 35 year's ago😱 still have my hair and still brown🤪
One of the BEST music videos EVER! The graphics still hold up to this day so imagine being a kid in the 80's like me and seeing something like that!! Chills, excitement, wide eyes and all!
It's a great video for sure. But there were cartoons, and short art films in this style already in the 1940s. So we were't exactly shocked (when we saw what our little sisters listened to ... :D)
That was 1985, I was 20. This was a massive hit. I recommend A-Ha's next big hit after this one, The Sun Always Shines on TV. Enjoyed your reaction you two ;-)
Was completely revolutionary when it came out in 1985. I was 18 years old, and MTV was something new and big. They showed music videos 24/7. Mobile phones and the Internet were something no one had ever heard of
this was my uncles claim to fame. he was working on the production that day and ended up featuring in the video...well half of his face did. When the lady lead re-emerges from the comic and is behind the counter he is the chap on the far right when they all peer over. its only a fleeting glimpse, blink and you'll miss it but its satisfying to see him immortalised for a second.
I remember this. I was a teenager. Even kids that didn't like this type of music loved this. My friends and I back then were all hard rock/heavy metal kids. We wouldn't listen to this song on the radio, but we'd watch it every single time it came on MTV because the video was so awesome.
Same here! Our group of friends were a bit older than you guys. We were 18 to 22 yrs old. We went to each others homes after work every night to watch MTV! We watched MTV then like people look.at their phones and devices now!!
@@maryreilly5092 😂 Yes MTV was EVERYTHING back then‼️Videos for days and I loved most of the people that would were leading us into and commentating on the videos 😃 So much fun back then
He appeared on The Masked Singer UK as The Viking singing this song but obviously not in this fashion, leaving out the high notes, as he would have been spotted straight away. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SVqGFe6lf5s.html
@@maryamallison6404 Freddie Mercury had 4, Michael Jackson had 4, Steve Perry had 4.. 5 octaves is already pushing it. For reference, Mariah Carey has a 5 octave range too. 5.
@@maryamallison6404 The only other singer with that range that I know of, at least in pop music, was Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers singing Unchained Melody way back in the mid 1960s.
I was so lucky to live in that era. I was 16 and a Jr. in high school when this came out. I would get up, turn on MTV, get ready, and watch until it was time to go to school. Really was the good old days.
My first crush… Morten Harkett 😍😍 i wore a wrist full of leather bracelets because he did 🤣 and my hair similar even haha! They have some amazing songs!
I fell in love with this video because of the artwork in it. It inspired me to start sketching at a young age. Love this song. Thank you Shawn and Mel for this one. Great reaction as usual. 🙌❤️ love y’all
This video was the first of its kind and won multiple awards for its animation and illustration. The song went onto become a monster hit for the group A-HA. And the video has garnered over 3billion hits world wide. Great response to an original of its day. Awesome!.
One of my favorite 80s pop hits. FYI, the animation technique in that video was rotoscope, which involved taking film and hand-drawing the animation over the film frame by frame. It's really labor intensive, so no one does it anymore, but it is absolutely perfect for combining live action and animation like this video did.
Not quite true, people do rotoscope still nowadays, for stuff like A Scanner Darkly, Waltz with Bashir, even Smiling Friends has a minor character who's uniquely rotoscoped. Digital animation tools have made it much less labour intensive now tho, since instead of individually printing out the live action frames and tracing them one by one, you can basically drag-and-drop the live-action reference footage into the animation software and scrub through the frames to trace them on layers. Not to mention motion-capture is kind of like the CGI equivalent.
Their other video "The Sun Always Shines On TV" starts off as if it was the end of this video, it departs from there but it is a very cool touch, and a great song!
I was 16 when this came out, Morten Harket can still hit those notes and this video has been viewed over a billion times!! Another one of theirs you might like is 'hunting high and low'. Loved your reaction to this
Still one of the all time best videos ever made. Can't count how many times I've seen it and it never gets old. Thanks for letting me enjoy it again with you. Loved ur reaction!
Great Reaction. THREE THOUSAND HAND DRAWINGS that took a team 4 months to produce which is why this was the most-watched video on MTV AND though it is over 35 years old there are over a BILLION views on RU-vid :)
I loved this video when it came out and I still love it. I guess the effects aren't such a big deal anymore since every reacter I've seen doesn't really notice it, but back then this really was amazing. The scenes where he was going back and forth between a real person and a drawing were especially awesome for a music video but today it doesn't even get mentioned. I guess I'm old now. lol
This was one of the songs that helped spark New Wave music in the U.S. It was A-Ha's biggest U.S. hit, so a lot of people classify them as one-hit wonders, but they remained a very popular band in Scandinavia for many years.
This is my absolute favorite all time music video!!! Was in high-school in the early 80s when everything was still pretty fresh. Loved it then, love it now. Song is still as fun to listen to now as then. Man, could he hit the high notes! Lol! Thanks for reacting to it.
This was the first time the industry ( movie television ) used this style of videography to split video tape and art style video ( stop frame ) it blew everything else in creativity away. I think the next time this format was used was the movie Roger Rabbit where cartoon was added to video for a movie.
I saw them when I was 15...my metal-head friends messed with me about going to this show (that was a no no as a metal lover myself) but I had so much fun! Danced with so many girls & it was great! Always had a soft spot for pop music well before I got into Ozzy and Metallica and Megadeth
Haha! Hardcore punk in the 80s here, myself. Same thing, mate. I had to keep my love of music like this to myself for sure, but telling everyone about the girls I danced with was something they understood well!
This was A-ha's first single, their second single The Sun Always Shines on TV is a loose follow up to Take on Me, the video is a lot different but the song is banging.
A-ha is a Norwegian synth-pop band formed in Oslo in 1982. The lead singer could sing 5 octaves. The band has since retired. This was always me and my SO's song. Check out their song: "The Living Daylights" which is the theme song of a James Bond movie of the same name. Also, check out: "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." These guys are awesome and so unique. :-)
Fun fact: This is the 3rd version of the song by A-Ha. It did ok in their home country. A producer heard it, brought them to the US and had them do it again and this is the version that became the international hit.
Y’all might get this. Amazing video. I requested it from V66 in Boston (our free answer to MTV at the time). waited for it for hours, even got in trouble with my mama for not doing my chores waiting for this video. Worth it. When I got to college, it was an album everyone could agree on that you could play whenever. 👍🏻
This is really a re-release. The original in 1984 by a-ha got DOA. 😖 This version runs circles over the 1984 version! 😃🎸🎹 At the AMA in 1986, the late Kenny Rogers praised Morten Harket of a-ha: KR wished he could reach that high! 😃 Written by a-ha. This is the video version. The 1985 radio version has a different ending. With the high falsettos, Morten Harket deserves to be in the GOAT male singer category. Sampling. Pitbull sampled the chorus. He wrote lyrics and got permission from a-ha. Suggested video: Pitbull, Christina Aguilera and Morten Harker perform Feel This Moment. Suggested next a-ha video: Train of Thought. 🎸😃🎹
This was groundbreaking. Way before its time. I and my friends were all in love with Morten Harket! He was also really cute as a character from one of those teenage romance magazines. (Long before your time, Shawn & Mel!)
I grew up listening to this song and practically all their songs from their first 4 albums. Still today, they are one of my favorite bands of the 80s. I do listen to their most recent material but, this takes me back to the time where I'd rode my bike or play football (soccer) on the streets with my neighbors
I've been to a concert where the band (big band with huge hits of their own) played a couple of covers half way through. 'Take on me' was on of the covers they did and it got a crowd of their own fans singing along and screaming way more than any of their own songs!
Nearly 40 years old, and this is still the greatest music video ever made. Technologically way ahead of its time, great song, great story. Still the GOAT!
There's something so heartwarming and uplifting about this song and the video. Its so straight forward and joyful makes you feel very nostalgic for the 80's and simpilar times❤️.
"Take on Me" is such a Iconic Video since it's one of the first on RU-vid to surpass One BILLION Views! The video used a 1930's technology known as "RotoScope" in films whereby every part you see in the frame was hand drawn. By the way this song was released 3 times in the 1980's and failed to make the Music charts until this Video came out.
@@ffjsb And tedious, particularly back in the days of film. Software does a lot of the work these days, provided you have set up your shots and green (or other appropriate colour) screen correctly. Rotoscopers are kind of the unsung heroes of a lot of films.
When the lady cafe owner thought that she was stiffed by the girl by not paying her coffee check, she crumpled up the comic book and threw it into the trash can. Those two men who were chasing the lead singer and the girl were from the beginning of the music video when they lost the motorcycle race. Their worlds collided when the lady cafe owner crumpled up the comic book.
Great video and your reactions are priceless!!!!!! It’s so easy to miss things in this video if you look away for an instant! Lol. I first watched it on mtv with my teenagers. We were blown away. No RU-vid in the nineties, we had to wait until mtv played it again. The drawings captivated me the most. But all of it is amazing. I love it that your romance had a connection to the title. Kismet!💃🏽🕺🏾
Hey Shawn and Mel, so glad you guys liked the video. I was in my twenties in the 80s, and yes, we had some of the best and most creative videos during that decade, thanks to VH1, BET, and MTV.
I was in high school when this video was being played every few hours on MTV. My girlfriend at that time looked identical to the girl in this video. People would stop and stare at her wherever we went. It was weird but fun too. ahhh.... good times.....
💕 You guys, 💕 that You discovered this VIDEO!! Without the video, the song is catchy as you could want. This might only be trailing THRILLER in my opinion as best video of all time. Amazing in and out of the comic, a concise, exciting adventure that both adds texture to the experience and allow the music to add the anxiety in tempo. Great reaction, Loves!
WOW it was cutting edge then and to my old ass of 52 yrs old this came out in my college years lots of memories of in a way of me and my ( Late ) Aisha met thanx for the happy memories my friends love yall keep up the great work
Definitely one of the best videos in the 80's. Even if a person wasn't much for the song itself, the video was so cool, we watched it anyway. Came out in 1985, my senior year of highschool...
This video was a sensation in 1984, and was made on tech significantly less powerful than your smartphone. Significantly! I can't believe how well it still stands up.
Hey! Shawn and Mel !!! If you's like to learn more about this song, Take a look at your screen, at the end of the video, for reference. There are 2 thumbnails of a video Story, entitled, "A-ha "Take on me", the Story of the Song", a MUST SEE VIDEO!!!!! You will learn all about this extraordinary video, and wonderful song!! Morten Harket , lead singer, and a-ha, are the greatest!!!!!! watching and experiencing your guys' reaction gave me chill-bumps, just like when I first saw this, and loved your perception of the lyric, "take on me, take me on, "come into my world!!!!" I got all excited all over again, about this extraordinary beautiful singer and Band, whom I WATCH, DAILY!!!!!!