Take on Me

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"Take on Me"
Single by a-ha
from the album Hunting High and Low
B-side "Love Is Reason"
Released 1985
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1984
Genre Synthpop, New Wave
Length 3:46
Label Warner Bros. Records
Writer(s) Magne Furuholmen
Morten Harket
Pål Waaktaar
Producer Alan Tarney
Certification Gold (BPI)
a-ha singles chronology
"Take on Me"
(1985)		 "Love Is Reason"
(1986)
Alternate covers
1st Release cover of "Take On Me"
1st Release cover of "Take On Me"

"Take on Me" is a song by Norwegian New Wave band a-ha. Written by the band members, the song was produced by Alan Tarney for the group's first studio album, Hunting High and Low, released in 1985. The song combines synthpop with a varied instrumentation, which includes acoustic guitars, keyboards and a synthesizer.

"Take on Me" was originally recorded in 1984, and took three times to chart in the United Kingdom, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart in November 1985. In the United States the song reached the top position of the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1985, mainly due to the wide exposure of its memorable music video on MTV; directed by Steve Barron, the video features the band in a pencil-sketch animation/live-action combination called rotoscoping. The video won six awards, and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards.

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[edit] Background

Pål Waaktaar and Magne Furuholmen began their music careers playing in a band called Bridges, together with Viggo Bondi and Øystein Jevanord.[1] In 1981 the band produced Fakkeltog, a LP for which all of the music was composed by the group themselves, most of it being written by Waaktaar. Soon after, Bridges disbanded. Waaktaar and Furuholmen went to London to work in the music industry, but after six months of disappointment, they returned to Norway.[1] The duo decided to try to get Morten Harket to join them as lead singer. At the time Harket was singing in a band called Souldier Blue, but he felt that his band was stagnating, and decided to join Waaktaar and Furuholmen. They stayed together for six months, writing some songs and working on demonstration tapes, including "Lesson One", the song that eventually become "Take on Me." In January 1983 the band returned to London and tried to get a contract with a record label.[1]

[edit] Recording and production

The band moved into a flat in London, and began calling record companies and publishing houses. After a few appointments the band signed with a publishing house called Lionheart. a-ha then returned to Norway to earn some money. When they returned to London, they left Lionheart out of frustration.[2] They decided to make new demos, and chose the studio of musician and producer John Ratcliff, intending to re-record five songs. The band signed with Ratcliff, who in return introduced them to his manager, Terry Slater. With this encouragement, the band managed to complete some songs, including "Take on Me". After a few meetings Slater signed them with Warner Bros. Records.[2]

The band meet with Tony Mansfield, an expert in the use of computerized synthesizers, who mixed the demos with electronic sounds. The sound was not what a-ha had hoped to achieve, and the album was remixed again. The band rushed to release "Take on Me" as a single in the United Kingdom but failed to make an impact. After this, Warner Brothers' head office in the United States decided to invest in the band, and gave them the opportunity to re-record the song.[2] Terry Slater managed to convince Alan Tarney to produce the new version. In little time the song was completed and re-released in the United Kingdom, but the record label's office in London gave them no support, and the single flopped for the second time.[2]

In the United States, Warner Bros. put the group on top priority, and decided to invest money on a revolutionary video for "Take On Me" using the version produced by Tarney. The single was released in the United States a month after the music video, and immediately appeared in the Billboard Hot 100.[2]

[edit] Composition
"Take on Me"
A 24 second sample from "Take on Me", featuring Harket's high-pitched falsetto, with a backing track that mixes acoustic guitars and electronic sounds.
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"Take on Me" is a synthpop song, written in the key of A major,[3] and includes instrumentation from acoustic guitars, keyboards, and a synthesizer.[4][5] Like the majority of pop music, the song is set in common time, and moves at a very fast tempo of 170 beats per minute.[3] The lyrics of "Take on Me" are a plea for a love connection,[6] and are constructed in a verse-chorus form with a bridge before the third and final chorus. In the song, Harket demonstrates a vocal range of nearly two and a half octaves.[3] He sings the lowest pitch in the song, A2, at the beginning of the chorus, on the first syllable of the phrase "Take on me."[3] As the chorus progresses, Harket's voice hits higher and higher notes, reaching a falsetto[4][7][8] and hitting the song's highest note (E5) at the end.[3] (in the hit version: in the 1984 release his vocal was fractionally higher). A mix of acoustic guitars and electronic sounds serve as the song's backing track.[4]

[edit] Music video

Lead singer Morten Harket and actress Bunty Bailey in a scene from the music video, which features them in a pencil-sketch animation/live-action combination called rotoscoping.

Two videos were made for the song. The first release of "Take On Me" in 1984 includes a different instrumentation, and was featured in the first video, which shows the band singing with a blue background.[9] The second video was directed by Steve Barron, and filmed at Kim's Café and on a sound stage in London, in 1985.[10] The video used a pencil-sketch animation/live-action combination called rotoscoping, in which the live-action footage is traced over frame by frame to give the characters realistic movements.[11]

The video's main theme is a romantic fantasy narrative.[12] It begins with a young woman, played by actress Bunty Bailey,[10] drinking coffee and reading a comic book alone in a coffee shop. The comic contains a narrative about competitive motorcycle racing in which the hero is pursued by two villains. As the girl reads, her waitress writes out the bill for her to pay. The winner of the race, played by Morten Harket, winks at the girl from the page. Then a graphical representation of a hand reaches through the comic book, inviting the girl to enter his animated world. Through a creative effect they both view each other through a strange window which allows them to see each other in live action, while themselves, still remaining in comic book form.

When the waitress comes back for the bill, she discovers the girl missing and believes that she has left without paying. She angrily crumples up the comic book and throws it into a garbage can. Then, since the comic book is crumpled, the pages overlap and touch, allowing the two motorcycle villians to crossover into the panels containing Harket and the girl. One, wielding a pipe wrench, smashes the window. Harket punches one of the thugs and retreats with the girl into a maze created by the crumpled paper. Harket tears a hole so the girl can escape as he faces the two thugs. The girl reappears on the floor in the coffee shop, to the surprise of the shop clientele and employees. The startled girl grabs the comic book and runs to her home, where she tries to smoothe out the creases to learn what happens next.

One of the panels shows Harket lying unconscious, and she begins to cry. Harket then wakes up and starts throwing himself against the edges of the panel of the comic book's page, attempting to break out into the real world. As he does this, he begins to flash between animation and live action. The live-action version of him appears in the hallway leading to the girl's room, throwing himself against the corridor walls. He finally escapes from the comic book and embraces the girl. This last scene is based on the 1980 movie Altered States.[10]

At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the video for "Take on Me" won six awards—Best New Artist in a Video, Best Concept Video, Most Experimental Video, Best Direction, Best Special Effects, and Viewer's Choice—and was nominated for two others, Best Group Video and Video of the Year.[13] The video was also nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Video at the 13th American Music Awards in 1986.[14]

Family Guy parodied the video in the season 4 episode Breaking Out Is Hard to Do, with Chris Griffin entering Harket's animated world and briefly dancing with him before being interrupted by the pipe wrench wielding antagonists and breaking out. A re-dub of the video was posted on YouTube by Dustin McLean in October 2008, perhaps the first example of the "literal video" meme.[15]

[edit] Chart performance

"Take on Me" was originally released in 1984, and was mixed by Tony Mansfield, but failed to make an impact in the United Kingdom.[2] The group re-recorded the song with the help of producer Alan Tarney,[2][10] releasing it for the second time in late 1984, peaking at number three in Norway[16] but also failing to reach audiences abroad.[2][17]

In the United States, Warner Bros. invested in the revolutionary second video for "Take On Me," which used Tarney's version of the song. The new video was released to clubs and television a month before the record was available in stores or played on the radio.[18] Wide exposure on MTV[17] made the song quickly soar to the top position of the Billboard Hot 100 on 19 October 1985.[19] It stayed on the chart for twenty-three weeks, and ended up at the tenth position of the 1985 year-end chart.[20]It still is the only Norwegian band and single to ever reach the top of the American Billboard Hot 100 (May 2009).

"Take on Me" was released for the third time in the United Kingdom in September 1985.[17] The song debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number fifty-five, peaked at number two for three weeks, and received a gold certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).[21] In Norway, a-ha's native country, "Take on Me" reentered the VG-lista singles chart, reaching a new peak of number one, a year after it was first released.[22] The single was largely successful across the rest of Europe, reaching the top of the Eurochart Hot 100 for nine weeks, topping the singles charts in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland,[23][24][25][26][27] and reaching the top three in France and Ireland.[28][29]

[edit] Formats and track listing

  • 7" Original single (1984)
  1. "Take on Me" (Original version) – 3:10
  2. "And You Tell Me" – 1:48
  • 12" Original single (1984)
  1. "Take on Me" (Long version) – 3:44
  2. "And You Tell Me" – 1:48
  3. "Stop! And Make Your Mind Up" – 2:57 (Pål Waktaar)

(On this record, Pål Waktaar is miscredited as Päl Waktaar)

  • 7" Single (1985)
  1. "Take on Me" – 3:46
  2. "Love Is Reason" – 3:04
  • 7" Single (1985)
  1. "Take on Me" (LP version) – 3:46
  2. "The Sun Always Shines on TV" (LP version) – 4:30
  • 12" Maxi-Single (1985)
  1. "Take on Me" (Extended version) – 4:45
  2. "Love Is Reason" (LP version) – 3:01
  3. "Take on Me" (Single version) – 3:31

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Charts and certifications

[edit] Chart positions

Chart (1984) Peak
position
Norwegian Singles Chart[16] 1
Chart (1985) Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report[30] 1
Austrian Singles Chart[23] 1
Belgian VRT Top 30[24] 1
Dutch Top 40[25] 1
French SNEP Singles Chart[28] 3
German Singles Chart[26] 1
Irish Singles Chart[29] 2
Italian Singles Chart[27] 1
Swedish Singles Chart[31] 1
Swiss Singles Chart[32] 1
UK Singles Chart[33] 2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[19] 1
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Tracks[34] 4

[edit] Certifications

Country Provider Certification Sales/shipments
Germany IFPI Gold[35] 150,000+
United Kingdom BPI Gold[21] 500,000+
Preceded by
"Oh Sheila" by Ready for the World		 Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
19 October 1985		 Succeeded by
"Saving All My Love for You" by Whitney Houston
Preceded by
"Cheerio" by The Monroes		 Norwegian VG-lista number-one single
23 October 1985 - 6 November 1985		 Succeeded by
"Cheri Cheri Lady" by Modern Talking
Preceded by
"Cheri Cheri Lady" by Modern Talking		 German Singles Chart number-one single
8 November 1985 - 6 December 1985		 Succeeded by
"Nikita" by Elton John
Swiss Singles Chart number-one single
10 November 1985 - 1 December 1985
Eurochart Hot 100 number-one single
23 November 1985 - 18 January 1986
Preceded by
"(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" by Sandra		 Dutch Top 40 number-one single
30 November 1985
Preceded by
"I Got You Babe" by UB40 and Chrissie Hynde		 Australian Kent Music Report number-one single
11 November 1985 - 18 November 1985		 Succeeded by
"The Power of Love" by Jennifer Rush

[edit] Reel Big Fish version

"Take on Me"
Single by Reel Big Fish
from the album BASEketball
Released 1999
Format CD single
Genre Ska punk
Length 3:14
Label Mojo Records
Reel Big Fish singles chronology
"Sell Out"
(1997)		 "Take on Me"
(1999)		 "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution"
(2005)

In 1999, ska punk band Reel Big Fish covered "Take on Me" for the film BASEketball. The song was later released on the BASEketball soundtrack and the international version of their album Why Do They Rock So Hard?.[36][37] The band also performed the song at concerts.[38] Reel Big Fish released a video clip for "Take On Me", directed by Jeff Moore,[39] and features the band playing the song while walking down an aisle in the stadium, and playing a game of BASEketball interlaced with clips from the film. An alternative video for the song's international release that contained only the stadium aisle footage was also released. Reel Big Fish also included a live version of the song in their live album Our Live Album Is Better than Your Live Album.[40]

[edit] Track listing

  • CD Single
  1. "Take on Me" – 3:02
  2. "Alternative Baby" – 2:56
  3. "Why Do All the Girls Think They're Fat?" – 2:22

[edit] Personnel

[edit] a1 version

"Take on Me"
Single by a1
from the album The A list
B-side "I Got Sunshine"
Released 14 August 2000
Format CD single, 7"
Recorded 2000
Genre Pop
Length 3:46
Label Epic Records
Certification Silver (BPI)
a1 singles chronology
"Like a Rose"
(1999)		 "Take on Me"
(2000)		 "Same Old Brand New You"
(2000)

In August 2000, British boy band a1 released a cover of "Take on Me" for their second studio album The A list.[41] Despite being panned by music critics, who called it a "lame cover version",[42] and a "note for note copy" that seems like "a re-release of the original";[43] it was commercially successful, topping the charts in Norway and the United Kingdom,[44][45] where it was certified silver by the BPI.[21] The cover's music video was directed by Stuart Gosling, and features the band saving the world from a deadly computer virus,[46] an inspiration from the 1982 science fiction film TRON.[47]

[edit] Formats and track listings

  • CD, Maxi-Single, Enhanced, CD1
  1. "Take on Me" – 3:31
  2. "Beatles Medley (I Feel Fine / She Loves You)" – 3:20
  3. "I Got Sunshine" – 3:41
  • CD, Maxi-Single, Enhanced, Limited Edition, CD2
  1. "Take on Me" (U.K. 2K Mix) – 3:25
  2. "Take on Me" (Metro Extended Club Mix) – 6:02
  3. "Take on Me" (D-Bop Saturday Night Mix) – 7:52

[edit] Charts

Chart (2000) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[48] 46
Dutch Mega Single Top 100[49] 47
German Singles Chart[50] 61
Irish Singles Chart[29] 12
Norwegian Singles Chart[44] 1
Swedish Singles Chart[51] 9
UK Singles Chart[45] 1

[edit] Certifications

Country Provider Certification Sales/shipments
Norway IFPI Gold[52] 5,000+
United Kingdom BPI Silver[21] 200,000+
Preceded by
"Music" by Madonna		 UK Singles Chart number-one single
3 September 2000		 Succeeded by
"Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" by Modjo
Norwegian VG-lista number-one single
5 October 2000 - 19 October 2000		 Succeeded by
"Beautiful Day" by U2

[edit] Other cover versions

[edit] Notes

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