“Take on Me” wasn’t a smash out of the gate.
And it felt like years.
Every week it would go up a spot, up three spots….
It would pick up, then slow down.
[It] was a whole process."
The music video took months to make.
“It was a dream to work with talent like that,” Waaktaar-Savoy says of Barron.
“Normally, videos took a week of shooting in a hangar.
But for this, we did a whole day that was only to make the comic magazine.
Then four months spent doing hand-drawn drawings.
It was very thorough stuff.”
“Take on Me” is a pop culture touchstoneand a-ha couldn’t care less.
Waaktaar-Savoy admits that these days he rarely sees the video, which scored six MTV Moonmen in 1986.
“I didn’t even know it was the 30th anniversary of the song!”
The female star of the clip was more than a video vixen.
The band is still taking on the world.
“If we love it, then we will do more,” Waaktaar-Savoy says.
“It’s nice to feel that we can take any turn we want.”
