Tuesday, September 6, 2022

ccclxx. A-ha: Take On Me

ccclxx. A-ha

80s Week

Take on Me (1985)
(4:03)


from: Hunting High and Low


An example of a song that become a gargantuan hit after the music video was re-tooled several times.

When Steve Barron got on board, he and his team set about combining live action with rotoscoping pencil drawings in frame-by-frame animation. MTV ate it up.

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In A Major, the composers keep away from the tonic by staying on the supertonic (B Minor) for the introduction, finally landing a ii-V-I progression in Bars 13-15.

Also impressive is the Major Seventh leap in the vocal in Bars 37-38:

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N-Z A-HA / Take On Me / ccclxx ABERCROMBIE, John / Timeless / xxiii ABERCROMBIE, John / JOHNSON, Marc / ERSKINE, Peter / Light Beam / cxlix ...