Brit Reacts To A-HA - TAKE ON ME!
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Brit Reacts To A-HA - TAKE ON ME!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m going React To A-HA - TAKE ON ME!
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One of the earliest MTV videos and so loved by Gen X
Agreed as great as some of the first videos were like Music Killed The Radio Star, this one was the top for me! And its comic book style to real world blew people away!
I rember this winning the MTV best video award. Im old lol😅
Same here👍 wasn't a big fan of it but now I'm a sucker for nostalgia, I miss the time and people..... it feels good being able to step back and remember
A-HA were a group before their time
Ditto
It was a great time to be a teenager!
Yes, it’s so 80s, and that’s why it’s better than anything from today.
For 1985 this was quite a revolutionary video. People say this wasn't so difficult to make until you tell them it was in 1985 when computers were just coming into existence.
I grew up on this as a kid! I can't ever forget it.
This Song is 40 years old and was released 3 times before it finally charted in the UK. The video used an old technique called Rotoscope and every single animated part you see had to be drawn by hand back then. This was a ground breaking Song & Video in 1984.
This is the heartbeat of the 80s-90s !
This came out when I was in college. Always playing on MTV and geez, he waa gorgeous!
I remember when this first came out. The graphics were amazing. Still are.
This was such an amazing video when it came out. I was a mom of young kids and absolutely loved it. That was back in the days when MTV was Music TV and played music all day long.
To have never heard this song before was unlikely but not everyone your age has seen this classic music video. It was ground breaking then but still holds up.
One of the best 80s songs ever ❤
One of my most favorite songs and videos of all time 👩🏻🏫👵🏻👏🏻🥰‼️
This is one of the first videos I saw on MTV eons ago. My favorite video of all times.
One of the greatest, most cutting edge videos of the time! It is still one of my favorite songs of my teen years, I was 13 when it came out.
a-ha was not really a one hit wonder, but in America, they only had a few songs. One of my favorites was "The Sun Always Shines On TV". But they were popular enough to do a James Bond theme song...the title song for The Living Daylights in 1987, starring Timothy Dalton in his first outing as 007.That song was written by a-ha's guitarist Pal Waaktaar and Bond music maestro John Barry.
Not only was this song very popular well into the '90s, it's still one of the most popular songs for little kids to sing along with in stores. The video was just groundbreaking back in the day & has held up well over time.
One of my favorite videos and songs
Brings back the feel and memories of places people and a youth i miss dearly🤘
This video was cutting edge at the time. It wasn't anything we had seen before. I was in high school.
The video effect, rotoscoping, had been around for 100 years at that point. Its popularity faded in the 1940s as quicker and cheaper effects were developed. So some of us had seen it before. Still a damn good video.
This video was way ahead of its time...for sure
Greatest Norwegian band. Morten Harket still looks good to this day. In the US they had a few hits but then our radios stopped playing their music. They were more popular in Europe after a few hits here because we didn't get to hear anything else by them until RUclips came around. They did an MTV UNPLUGGED out of Norway.
The graphic style, rotoscoping, was 100 years old at that time. It is very labor intensive and expensive. so it was never used that much. They had a crew working 16 weeks to hand trace over each frame of the video.
The final sequence, where the animated singer materializes in the hallway and fights to become real, is, oh, let's say *inspired by* the final scene of a sci-fi horror movie called Altered States, released just a few years earlier.
Won multiple awards worldwide.
Kudos Kabir 👏👏👏
Oh, they weren't a one-hit-wonder band. They lasted for a while. Even had one of their songs be used as an opening theme song for one of the James Bond flicks. 😉👍
I love watching people react to this video
Would love to see a reaction to the unplugged version of this song. It's really good.
I can't believe how fast I clicked on this video 😂 I absolutely love this song.
A-HA had never played this live anywhere until the Grammy Awards show in L.A. -- watched by millions. And they nailed it.
The Grammy Awards was not live, except from the vocals. The music was playback. That said, they are an amazing live band.
They are a Norwegian band. Which explains the gorgeous faces and great hair. I bought their album in the 80s and the other songs are hauntingly beautiful. Morten Harket the leader singer has an incredible voice.
I wore out the cassette. Living A Boys' Adventure Tale. The Sun Always Shine on TV. Hunting High and Low. Love is Reason.
What a great album!
@@lorettaross5146 Fantastic debut!'Here i stand and face the rain,/Blue sky/Dream my self alive too.
The first video I ever saw on MTV (my family didn’t have cable, so I saw it in a motel room during a long distance football trip). I was 15 I think.
Same visual effects (and probably the artist) in Brothers In Arms, a very moving song by Dire Straights.
One thing about music videos in the 80s, they pushed a lot of boundaries in film making. They were cheaper than movies to produce, so they took more risks like having half of it drawn in black and white or using very early CGI.
You should react to the mtv unplugged version. The famous synth rift was written by magne the keyboard player when he was just 15. Had a-ha other songs you ask ? Oh man you have so much a-ha to delve into, a-ha have done so many different styles of albums. Been a fan since I was 12 years old, I’m now 51. Sound track of my life !
Morton ( lead singer ), Mags ( Keyboard ) ,and Pal ( guitar ). I went to this concert in 7th grade. I loved them! It must have been around '87 or '88.
"Take on me" and their first album, "Hunting High and Low" came out in 1985. The song had been released in another version a couple of times, but flopped everywhere but in Norway, the bands home country.
This is one of my favorite songs from the 80s. Weezer did a really good cover of it a few years back. Their music video had a cameo appearance you’d love. 😊
The song also showcases lead singer Morten Harket's stunning vocal range. Very few songs are written to emphasize a male singer's 4 octave range, so this is very unusual. Anyway, a lot of people think A-ha was a one-hit wonder, but they had a second hit with their song "The Sun Always Shines on TV."
Only Americans think they were a one hit wonder. a-ha dominated the rest of the world, influenced so many bands including cold play, Morten is one of the best vocalists of all time.
@@markwebster7435 Can't help but agree, but even in the U.S., "The Sun Always Shines on TV" was a hit; it's just that it was totally eclipsed by "Take on Me." It's ridiculous how short our attention spans are over here. 🙄
@@markwebster7435 ...''of all time"!!!
I was about 6 years old when this video came out. Music like this was my childhood. I know I'm on the younger end, but I still firmly qualify as Gen X.
the follow on to this song is the sun always shines on tv.morton harkett is still good looking now! he has eyes like kurt russell.
This song, and “Africa” by Toto, have been played in my car for over 30 years.
Yay! I was number 420 'like'! Hah! Anyways, I was 10 when this came out. And yea, it takes me to a different place in my head. Amazing how life has changed since then. As we all say im sure lol
The video was very creative when it came out.
When that song was on family guy, I started dancing
Jurassic park??? I nearly spit my coffe out lol. This is early 80s. Jurassic park came out in 93
Generation X in the house .. ❤ this song then and now ☝️❤️✌️
Oh I love this song! I used to dance my butt off to this.
Watch the making of that video. Interesting
Yes gimme
You should react to the Reel Big Fish cover of this song!!
That video was groundbreaking. I'm sure someone in here can tell you exactly, but the animation was drawn by hand and took months. There was no CGI back then and this was revolutionary. This video is as important as the music. It's the whole package, but I think the video really sells it
A version of this song was sung in the TV show The Magicians to great effect. Lookup: Quentin Funeral
I hated 80s music during the Grunge era, but it takes me back because I heard it so much as a teen, that I can't help but get nostalgic.
Pentatonix did a GREAT cover of this one. There is no official video but the audio is on the official PTX channel, you should check it out. While this i not an official reaction request, I'm sure pentaholics would love it. It MAY get blocked as I know sometimes PTX vids are hard to upload due to copyright so I recommend just checking it out on your own if you don't want to try a reaction. Mitch KILLS it!!! (of course).
Also, there’s a Family Guy skit for this video.
Hi Kabir! The best thing about this video is the cute chick! It would make a good dance song, though I think that dancing is a nefarious plot, hatched by chicks who are mad at guys. It made sense back in the old days, when it was a socially acceptable way for men to get to make physical contact with a variety of different women, but nowadays, why?
This wasn't CGI it was literally done frame by frame
Jurassic Park was 1993.
Archetypical, peak ‘80s
Norwegian band?
Yeah, that's right.
They won 6 MTV awards for the video of this song and nominated for best band at the American music awards but did not win.
Hunting High and Low us a better Aha song, although not as popular.
Morten easily one of the most beautiful men to have ever walked the earth
Bunty Bailey
I hope Chris Griffin gets out of the milk cooler!
Do you like Mariah Cary? I know a woman that can sing anything Mariah can sing. In fact she sings several of her songs, some say better than Mariah. Another British reactor said she's much better than Adele. Just listen to Morrisette Amon singing at the 2017 Asian song festival. You will be in love with her.
A one hit wonder,but I still enjoy it.
If you're going to be a one hit wonder make it a good one.
80s European pop. Many of them were OHW. They did MTV got some bread and split.
Nothing wrong with that.🤑🤑🤑🤑
4/20+
They weren't a one hit wonder. A-ha had 16 top 40 hits in the UK. 13 of them were in the top 20, 8 were top 10 and they had one no. 1 - which wasn't Take On Me, that only got to no.2. They were huge in Europe and also in South America.
I'm not British nor European. In the States this song made more money just on MTV that their entire other collection combined. That's a OHW. @@dawndriscoll3344
@@dawndriscoll3344 Let's not forget that 6 years after this clip,A-ha packed the Rock in Rio arena with 198,000! fans who payed tickets to watch them live and got in the Book of guiness for the largest audience ever.Still popular in S.America.
@@christianoazzuro6711 Yes, absolutely they did! I get annoyed with all these people saying a-ha are a one-hit wonder!!!