Weezer has released a super meta video for their cover of a-ha’s “Take On Me” and it stars Calpurnia. Calpurnia, fronted by Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard, takes it back to the ‘80s with this ...

A-ha's "Take on Me" video (Photo: Warner Bros.) Had Steve Barron never come up with the wild idea to cast the Norwegian heartthrobs of A-ha as comic-book moto-racers in their iconic “Take on Me” music ...

So much of the worry about The Super Mario Bros. Movie before the film came out was about Chris Pratt and his Mario voice surrounding like, well, Chris Pratt. It turns out: he did fine! He wasn’t the ...

In 1985, two groundbreaking works of animation could be viewed, sometimes in the same hour, on MTV. One was “Take On Me,” the A-ha video in which a woman (actress Bunty Bailey) gets yanked out of a ...

Released in the mid-80s, the Norwegian band’s song found great success both on the charts and with awards. It spent 27 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at No. 1. The song also nabbed ...

Anyone of a certain age — or anyone who’s heard of MTV, period — is familiar with the iconic 1984 synthpop hit “Take on Me” by Norwegian band A-ha. More than three decades later, the song (and its ...

You’d think that after more than 30 years of hearing “Take On Me” by a-ha on the radio and seeing its iconic animated/live-action video a combined three million times, there wouldn’t be many new ways ...

Julio is a Senior Author for Collider. Despite having studied History and International Relations at university, he found his calling in cultural journalism. When he is not writing, Julio teaches ...

Thirty years ago, a 16-year-old Ohio boy saw a video on MTV that changed his life. The song was Take On Me by the Norwegian trio a-ha. Even if you’re a millennial, you’ve heard the synth-pop song with ...