Back in the mid-eighties, a music video came out that perfectly captured what my young mind thought romance ought to be: dramatic, urgent, star-crossed…semi-animated. Partially set in a diner, partially set inside a comic book. Dripping with synth. Do take a couple minutes to travel back to 1984 for A-ha’s Take On Me, the most romantic music video ever. So worth the short ad, considering my best friend and I used to wait hours for this to come on MTV.
P.S. Did anyone else think he was hotter as a cartoon?
Oh, that was fun! I *loved* that video as a little girl.
Thanks for the reminder.
That’s a classic and one of the best of the 80’s. Good choice!
Pop music has lost far too much of its cheese-flavored urgency since the eighties. Sigh.
Yes! A vivid slice o’ the look o’ romance I’m thinking. Guy I had a major crush on played this song endlessly when it came out (but only when he was drunk which was, um, often). Interestingly, he looked a lot like the A-Ha dude–the line-y one moreso than the real thing. :). And the falsetto! That glorious falsetto screeches romance.
I’ve never been able to figure out any of the words to that song’s chorus. “Take on me / take me on / gibberish” is the best I can do. But such a fun video. And so much hair!
The chorus was the only bit I could understand!
“Taaake…on…me… [take on me!]
Taaake…me…on… [take on me!]
I’ll beeeee goooone…
In a day or twooooooo!!!”
I guess that’s not very illuminating, meaning-wise. But they’re Swedish. Or Norwegian? I’m sure it makes sense in a cultural context.
Definitely hotter as a cartoon. It was such a pleasure to find this in one of my DDR games — though alas, edited.
Have you seen the literal video version? I still find myself singing “Pipe wrench fiiiiiight!” http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3621423/take-on-me-the-literal-version