Taking on the iconic “Take On Me” video with a-ha’s Magne Furuholmen
4 min readJan 21, 2020
The song comes on and you picture the story immediately, a hand reaching out of a comic book to a lonely girl in a diner, beckoning her to join him in an animated fantasy land complete with a real-world mirror.
Or, the video comes on and you nod in time with the beat, getting ready to play air keyboards and, when the chorus reaches its crescendo…