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I've done a lot without being credited based on how you define songwriting
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a-ha: The Movie

I've done a lot without being creditedbased on how you define songwriting

I've done a lot without being credited
based on how you define songwriting

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I've done a lot without being credited based on how you define songwriting.
Duration
8 seconds
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24
Timestamp in Movie
01:14:26
Uploaded
May 21, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, music
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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?
If you say a song is what you sing and play on an acoustic guitar, - a-ha: The Movie 00:09
If you say a song is what you sing and play on an acoustic g...
There are dirferent definitions. That's pál's. - a-ha: The Movie 00:04
There are dirferent definitions. That's pál's.
People nowadays write songs in a dirferent way. - a-ha: The Movie 00:04
People nowadays write songs in a dirferent way.
You have a guy saying, "l wrote the bassline on this song." - a-ha: The Movie 00:14
You have a guy saying, "l wrote the bassline on this so...
Like building a table. You can decorate it with dirferent cups, put a flower on it. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
Like building a table. You can decorate it with dirferent cu...
Lf you came up with the legs so it doesn't fall over, it's an imporfant parf of it. - a-ha: The Movie 00:08
Lf you came up with the legs so it doesn't fall over, i...
But if it's just decorating, you give it to someone who'll decorate it dirferently. - a-ha: The Movie 00:06
But if it's just decorating, you give it to someone who...
My contribution is constantly underrated. It's not basslines or drum programming. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
My contribution is constantly underrated. It's not bass...
It's about toplines, rirfs, - a-ha: The Movie 00:10
It's about toplines, rirfs,
In the very beginning, Paul and Mags wrote the songs. - a-ha: The Movie 00:05
In the very beginning, Paul and Mags wrote the songs.
And Paul was more forceful in getting his sturf across. - a-ha: The Movie 00:06
And Paul was more forceful in getting his sturf across.
Anything he played that l loved, l felt like I'd picked up and made happen. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
Anything he played that l loved, l felt like I'd picked...
I can't think of one song that we didn't record. Maybe one. - a-ha: The Movie 00:05
I can't think of one song that we didn't record. M...
There was a song called Trees Never Grow On Sand. Morten didn't like the singing. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
There was a song called Trees Never Grow On Sand. Morten did...
He also wasn't writing sorf of lyrics back then. - a-ha: The Movie 00:06
He also wasn't writing sorf of lyrics back then.
So l depended on him doing that for my songs to be included. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
So l depended on him doing that for my songs to be included.
The result was always that all my songs were cowritten, of course. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
The result was always that all my songs were cowritten, of c...
But where l contributed with musical themes and sturf - a-ha: The Movie 00:09
But where l contributed with musical themes and sturf
I'm sure the story would've been dirferent if all three were credited, like in U2. - a-ha: The Movie 00:07
I'm sure the story would've been dirferent if all ...
Which worked very well for that band. Prom day one - a-ha: The Movie 00:09
Which worked very well for that band. Prom day one