History Music / Aha

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-->-- '''The Sun Always Shines on T.V.'''

In 1994, the band went on a hiatus, the same year a-ha reached a sales number of 20 million albums sold worldwide. After a performance at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in 1998, the band returned to the studio and recorded 2000's ''Minor Earth Major Sky'', which resulted in a new tour. By 2000, they had reached 36 million albums sold wordwide plus several million singles. In 2002 the band released their seventh studio album ''Lifelines''. ''Analogue'' is their eighth studio album and is their most successful studio album in the UK since ''East of the Sun, West of the Moon'' and has been certified silver. Their most recent album is ''Cast in Steel'', which was released in September of 2015.

-->-- "The Sun Always Shines on T.V."

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->''"Touch me, how can it be?\\
Believe me, the sun always shines on T.V."''
-->-- "'''The Sun Always Shines on T.V.'''"

* FirstInstallmentWins: "Take on Me", "The Sun Always Shines on T.V.", and "Train Of Thought" are actually a trilogy of videos all following the same very loose story and featuring the same rotoscoped art in one way or another. Now go ask everybody who has seen the video for "Take on Me" if they even know a-ha released ''other songs'' altogether. Go on, we'll wait.

** And just drive the point home, the video for ''"Train of Thought" [[spoiler:starts exactly where "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." left off and confirms that yes, he's stuck in the comic book for good. At this point, she has completely vanished from the narrative.]]

* WordSaladLyrics: Downplayed with "Take On Me". While the song is coherent, it is also a good indication that English is not this band's first language.[[note]]The title is a literal English translation of the Norwegian phrase "Ta på mig", which means "Touch me". Incidentally, the opening lyrics of their follow-up single, "The Sun Always Shines on T.V.", are the latter (English) phrase.[[/note]]

** And just drive the point home, the video for ''"Train of Thought" [[spoiler:starts exactly where "The Sun Always Shines on [=TV=]" left off and confirms that yes, he's stuck in the comic book for good. At this point, she has completely vanished from the narrative.]]

They retired on December 5, 2010, although they would perform one last time on August 21, 2011 as part of a national memorial service for the 77 victims of two related domestic terrorist attacks that took place in the Oslo region on July 22. Fans rejoiced, however, when the band announced in 2015 that they were reuniting for at least another two years. It turned out to be for longer, as they have gone on three European tours since 2018.

** "Take on Me" and "Train of Thought," both from ''Hunting High and Low,'' integrate {{rotoscop|ing}}ed pencil sketch animation with live-action.

* ChangedForTheVideo: The award-winning video for "Take on Me" by Music/{{aha}} has a different ending than the one on the ''Hunting High and Low'' album. While the album version does a repeat-and-fade at the end, the video has a quick, 3-note cold finish using unique instrumentation.
* ContinuityNod: The first 30 seconds of the video for "The Sun Always Shines on [=TV=]" are spent ending the storyline in the "Take On Me" video.
** And then the first 10 second of the video for "Train Of Thought" are the last 10 second of the video for "The Sun Always Shines on [=TV=]", picking right where the former left off.

** In the music video for "Minor Earth, Major Sky," Morten's character is distracted by hallucinations on the moon. When Paul and Magne can't find him, they decide to leave him behind; Morten looks up in time to see the lunar module taking off without him.

* FirstInstallmentWins: "Take on Me", "The Sun Always Shines on [=TV=]", and "Train Of Thought" are actually a trilogy of videos all following the same very loose story and featuring the same rotoscoped art in one way or another. Now go ask everybody who has seen the video for "Take on Me" if they even know Music/{{aha}} released ''other songs'' altogether. Go on, we'll wait.

* LongRunnerLineUp (LogicalExtreme): 30 years and counting with the same three guys — 12 years from their formation to their first hiatus, 12 more years until their second hiatus (interrupted by one reunion benefit concert), and 6 years and counting since reuniting a second time.

* {{Rotoscoping}}: The music video of "Take on Me".

* TakeThatAudience: [[spoiler:The DownerEnding for ''Take On Me'' that was the intro for the video ''The Sun Always Shines on TV.'' It was an annoyed jab by the band at the thousands of fans who had endlessly written them to ask "what happens next?" with the couple from ''Take On Me.'' What happens next? He can't stay in the real world, turns back into a comic drawing, and is forced to run back to his world, represented by a blue light he enters with a flash and disappears, and she leans against a tree with an expression of deep sadness. The end. Now listen to THIS song, which WE think is BETTER, stupid fans.]]

* WordSaladLyrics: Downplayed with "Take on Me". While the song is coherent, it is also a good indication that English is not this band's first language.[[note]]The title is a literal English translation of the Swedish phrase "Tag på mig," which means "Touch me." Incidentally, the opening lyrics of their follow-up single, "The Sun Always Shines on T.V.", are the latter (English) phrase.[[/note]]

** In the music video for "Minor Earth, Major Sky" Morten's character is distracted by hallucinations on the moon, and he is left behind to die by his crewmates, with the lunar module taking off without him.

* CallBack: "I've Been Losing You" talks about rain making no difference, calling back to their "Crying in the Rain" cover.

** The first version of the video for “Dark Is The Night” featured scenes that were considered so unnerving that the video was banned from MTV; these included a man struggling to move as his limbs are bound to multiple poles and Morten Harket’s face bursting from his own stomach. The second version of the video, billed as the official version on the band’s [=YouTube=] channel, replaces the disturbing scenes with others featuring the individual band members and 4 women in a comparatively much softer form of bondage.

** In the music video for "Minor Earth, Major Sky" Morten's character is distracted by hallucinations on the Moon, and he is left behind to die by his crewmates, with the lunar module taking off without him.

** "Maybe Maybe" is cute and poppy. But describes rather lightly [[DomesticAbuse how a guy and his ex-girlfriend bitch each other]], until said girlfriend [[MoralEventHorizon runs him over with her car]].

* MoodDissonance: "Velvet" is a song about a man praising a woman's beauty. In the music video on the other hand, the band members' love interests murders all 3 of them. Morten dies in an ElectrifiedBathtub, Paul is killed by [[BoomHeadshot a bullet on the head]], while Magne's corpse is [[HumanPopsicle locked in a freezer]]. Morten's singing as he is transported out of the tub and into a body bag is part of the video's NarmCharm.

* {{Remaster}}: The music video for 'Take On Me' was given a 4K HD remaster in 2019 from the original film and released on [=YouTube=] at the end of the year. However, most of the sequences in the comic world are a little too blue-skewed and the live action parts are a little too darkly lit.

* AlternateMusicVideo: The music video for "Take On Me" is actually the second version. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liq-seNVvrM first version]] had a different recording with the band singing on a blue background while gymnasts are dancing on interim.

* NotableMusicVideos: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914 Take on Me]]"

* EpicRocking: 'Out Of The Blue Comes Green' and 'Cold As Stone' clocks in at 6:42 and 8:20, respectively.

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