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a-ha: The Movie

If you listen to Blinding Lightsby The Weeknd, both the drum beat and the synths are...

If you listen to Blinding Lights
by The Weeknd, both the drum beat and the synths are clearly, without a shred of doubt,
a tribute to Take On Me

Full Transcript

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If you listen to Blinding Lights by The Weeknd,
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both the drum beat and the synths
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are clearly, without a shred of doubt, a tribute to Take On Me.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
36
Timestamp in Movie
01:29:15
Uploaded
May 21, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, music
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

Follows the band on tour, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming Norwegian pop stars. When Take On Me reached number 1 on Billboard in the US in 1985 the dream came true. Or did it?
From Terry Slater, - a-ha: The Movie 00:08
From Terry Slater,
"FAME, like a wayward girl, will still be coy" - a-ha: The Movie 00:14
"FAME, like a wayward girl, will still be coy"
"But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy," - a-ha: The Movie 00:28
"But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy,"
If you thirst for fame, you can just forget it. - a-ha: The Movie 00:05
If you thirst for fame, you can just forget it.
Every album we make starfs with a honeymoon period - a-ha: The Movie 00:15
Every album we make starfs with a honeymoon period
But pretty soon the problems begin to manifest themselves. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
But pretty soon the problems begin to manifest themselves.
Two things that made everything dirficult was moving to dirferent countries, - a-ha: The Movie 00:08
Two things that made everything dirficult was moving to dirf...
Magne would write ten pages. Morten would write one line. - a-ha: The Movie 00:05
Magne would write ten pages. Morten would write one line.
Before that, you had to pick up the phone, and it got a bit harder to be... - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
Before that, you had to pick up the phone, and it got a bit ...
You know, as isolated, and sorf of... We didn't dig trenches quite as easily. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
You know, as isolated, and sorf of... We didn't dig tre...
The Analogue album didn't sell. The record company was about to give up on a-ha. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
The Analogue album didn't sell. The record company was ...
But the Analogue single was a hit, and reopened the UK market. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
But the Analogue single was a hit, and reopened the UK marke...
And we were planning to retake the US. - a-ha: The Movie 00:04
And we were planning to retake the US.
So we needed another real hit. We didn't have one. - a-ha: The Movie 00:05
So we needed another real hit. We didn't have one.
So Foot Of The Mountain ended up being a "maybe" song. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
So Foot Of The Mountain ended up being a "maybe" s...
In the old days we'd probably end up trying to knit them together somehow. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
In the old days we'd probably end up trying to knit the...
That was often the process, a bit from me, a bit from him, see how it turned out. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
That was often the process, a bit from me, a bit from him, s...
This time it was Harald Wiik who suggested it. - a-ha: The Movie 00:05
This time it was Harald Wiik who suggested it.
He was the one who "interfered" and suggested we try to merge them. - a-ha: The Movie 00:06
He was the one who "interfered" and suggested we t...
It's like physically amputating your song and putting something in. - a-ha: The Movie 00:06
It's like physically amputating your song and putting s...