This song came out just as I was leaving to go on my mission. I heard it a few times and probably saw the video once before coming home two years later. It's one of the most famous and creative videos ever, but there's more to it than that.
This song gets points in a lot of different areas. First, it's a great workout song, with a steady, fast beat that takes a good effort to stay up with.
It's also a great falsetto song. As the chorus goes on, the voice pitch gets higher and higher and higher until it reaches dog whistle or Olivia-Newton-John-on-Xanadu levels, making it fun to try to sing.
And then there's the lyrics. I'm really not sure what he is trying to say, and the lyric websites haven't been any help to me here, but at one point, at the highest octave possible, it seems like he is singing, "L-M-N-O-PEE!!!" (And I'm always up for some good alphabet singing.)
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| Fonzie must have been big in Oslo. |
If people ever say, "Nothing good ever came out of Norway," you can rebut them with, "But what about A-ha?" Also, these guys have the best names this side of Diesel:
Morten Harket: vocals
Pal Waaktaar: guitar
Magne "Mags" Furuholmen: keyboards
(They can be used together in a sentence like this: "Luke Skywalker made sure to fasten his harket before climbing aboard the waaktaar for the four hour ride to Furuholmen.")
I didn't hear A-ha's follow up to "Take On Me" until several years later, but when I did, I thought "The Sun Always Shines On TV" was a very, very good song, too. Makes me wonder if I should listen to more Norwegian music.
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