When they returned to London, they left Lionheart out of frustration. 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. The band met with producer Tony Mansfield, an expert in the use of the Fairlight CMI , who mixed the demos with electronic instrumentation.
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 the single only charted at , the lowest-charted of all A-ha songs. After this, Warner Brothers' main office in the United States decided to invest in the band, and gave them the opportunity to re-record the song. The song was soon completed and re-released in the United Kingdom, but the record label's office in London gave them little support, and the single flopped for the second time.
In the United States, Warner Bros. The single was released in the United States a month after the music video, and immediately appeared in the Billboard Hot The drum machine used on the second and third releases rotoscoped video version was a LinnDrum — Paul overdubbed real cymbals and hi-hat using this drum machine. AllMusic journalist Tim DiGravina described "Take On Me" as "a new wave classic laced with rushing keyboards, made emotionally resonant thanks to Morten Harket's touching vocal delicacy.
Template:Listen "Take On Me" is a synthpop song that includes acoustic guitars and keyboards. Harket demonstrates a vocal range of over two and a half octaves. As the chorus progresses, Harket's voice hits ever higher notes, reaching a falsetto [7] [11] [12] and hitting the song's highest note E 5 , the dominant note at the end. A mix of a drum machine, the LinnDrum , [13] [14] acoustic guitars and electronic instrumentation serves as the song's backing track.
The first release of "Take On Me" in includes a completely different recording, and was featured in the first video, which shows the band singing with a blue background.
The second video, directed by Irish-born British film director Steve Barron , is the more widely recognized video for the song. The video's main theme is a romantic fantasy narrative.
It then cuts to a scene in a cafe, in which a young woman, played by Bunty Bailey Harket's girlfriend at the time , [15] is seen drinking coffee and reading the comic book in a coffee shop. As the woman reads, the waitress brings her the bill.
The comic's hero, after winning the race, seemingly winks at the woman from the page. His pencil-drawn hand reaches out of the comic book, inviting the woman into it.
Once inside, she too appears in the pencil-drawn form, as he sings to her and introduces her to his black-and-white world which features a sort of looking-glass portal where people and objects look real on one side and pencil-drawn on the other. Back in the restaurant, the waitress returns to find the woman missing. Believing that the woman has left without paying the bill, she angrily crumples and throws the woman's comic book into a bin.
This makes the hero's two opposing racers reappear, armed with a large pipe wrench. The racers smash the looking glass with the pipe wrench, trapping the woman in the comic book.
The hero punches one of the thugs and retreats with the woman into a maze of paper. Arriving at a dead end, he tears a hole in the paper wall so that the woman can escape as the menacing opposing racers close in on him.
The woman, now back in the real world and found lying beside the bin to the surprise of restaurant guests and staff, retrieves the comic from the bin and runs home, where she attempts to smooth out the creases to learn what happens next.
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It featured several elements of what would later become 'Take On Me', including the main synth riff, which Furuholmen created when he was The band felt the riff was too poppy for their band, and so the first version of the song had a "punky" sound. However, Bridges soon disbanded. Waaktaar and Furuholmen relocated to London, and then returned to Norway after six months of disappointment.
They were later joined by singer Morten Harket and began working on demos, including a new version of 'Miss Eerie', which was renamed 'Lesson One' before it finally became 'Take On Me'. The song was intended as a way to unveil Harket's impressive vocal range, which led to his vocals "doing this spiraling thing", according to the band. After singing to Warner Bros in the UK, the Norwegian band met with producer Tony Mansfield, who mixed their demos - including 'Take on Me' with electronic instrumentation rather than their usual instruments.
This sound was not what the band had hoped to achieve, and the album was remixed again. The band soon released 'Take On Me' as a single in the UK, but the single only charted at in late Warner Bros in the USA then decided to invest in the group, and gave them the chance to re-record the song. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard Morten Harket sing. I thought, how can somebody who looks like a film star sound like Roy Orbison?
I thought, this is unbelievable.
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