If you've never heard the MTV Unplugged version, do yourself a favour.
Behind the 80's synthpop cheerfulness there's a lovely sad song.
Makes me reminiscent of when most artists sounded good without each song needing 80 hours of studio work and autotune. There's still some, but now it seems like the fewer instead of the greater.
There's also this version.
Help me
Taaake oooon meeeee
Won't help anyone who hasn't watched the music video
Ok, if you insist.
This meme uses a play on words, relating the term "a-ha moment" as a point of realisation to the name of the Norwegian band "a-ha". The pencil sketch filter imitates the music video of a-ha's "take on me".
Most dads will have seen it, though, right?
Fun fact: They were trying to sing "touch me", but the songwriter didn't know English very well and just translated the Norwegian "ta på meg" word for word.
Would that make the next line "ta meg på"? Does that have a meaning?
I don't know what happened with the next line. "Ta meg på" doesn't really mean anything unless followed by a noun (like "take me on the kitchen table" or whatever). I think they either knew that one in English or were just playing with the words.
I found it funny regardless. Either "Ta meg på" is meaningful, and he thought the English structure would just roll with it. Or "Ta meg på" is meaningless, so he thought "fuck it. i doubt 'take on me' really means anything anyway"
It really adds a layer because "take on me" really doesn't mean anything, but it does when he sings it. and furthermore, "take me on" doesn't mean anything, but I know the difference between "take on me" and "take me on" and that is some analysis I wouldn't be doing if a particular Norwegian was better at English.
I prefer the translation “hold on to me.” Seems to match the video better.
That would have been better, but doesn't really map to anything probable in Norwegian.
They fixed that problem with their next single "the sun always shines on TV" I just released.
The music video for Take On Me by Aha uses a technique called rotoscoping, which is where you take live action footage and draw or paint over it to make it look like a cartoon. If you look up the video, it should be pretty evident what the relationship is to the meme.
You likely already know this part, but "an A-Ha moment" is an idiom that refers to a sudden insight or realization, and here is a play on words, invoking the music group mentioned above: It's an "A-Ha moment" not due to a flash of insight, but due to temporarily(...?) taking on ~~me~~ the appearance of being rotoscoped.
But this is a filter, not a rotoscope. So, it’s not really an aha moment.
I am pleased that you understand well enough now to form that opinion, lol.
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