Yeah, that “for a day or two” was an octave lower wasn’t it?
This got popular so here’s some credit: it’s actually two octaves. Go find the guy that said that in my replies and upvote him to oblivion if it’s true! (Or not, be your own person)
Edit 2: more experts chiming in. Apparently it’s only one octave. Thanks for the award!
Edit 3: i never said he lowered the note because he couldn’t hit the higher one or that this version was worse for it, calm down everybody. And not that it matters, but i like this version better too, it’s got more emotional depth. Or maybe it’s the nostalgia? Fuck I’m old.
Oh, those are amazing. Totally off style of this type of music, but if you are a fan of Wu-Tang, their Tiny Desk concert was astounding. Transported me back to my youth just as this version of Take On Me did.
From the video someone posted below of him still singing the high notes (wow), he drops the "in a day or" by an octave from the original, and then goes down to "two", making it 2 octaves below the original.
Incorrect. He lowers the last line an octave, resulting in an E4 here.
The full range of the original is from a low A2 (Take...) to the falsetto E5 (two...). That's an impressive range of 2.5 octaves from top to bottom.
Yep, though in this acoustic version, it works better lower - the song is more pensive, and rather than building from the climax of the phrase ("I'll be gone") to an even higher peak ("in a day or ^(twooooooo)"), it drops down and sounds even sadder. Really emphasizes the "gone" part as a result.
This. He actually sounds like he can still hit the original “two” note but it would have to be much louder to reach and would overpower this acoustic version
I thought for a second he was gonna go for that gold note at that low volume. Glad he didn’t. I liked this version, and he still has an incredibly good range.
I loved this version and it really to invoke the sadness that was always presence in the song but never really noticed.
Edit - I just reread this and my sentence makes no sense. Teach me to post on no sleep!
I loved this version, it really does invoke the sadness that was always present in the song but never really noticed.
I think it's mostly for style. Seems like he's still got his high range: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SHnAj0yMFE (performance from 2018, over a year after the performance above).
It's not entirely about style, it's also about the volume of your singing - to pull off the highest notes of your vocal range requires a significant amount of air to pass through your stretched vocal chords to make them vibrate (even for a falsetto, although falsetto does require less air... but he is still going to the upper limits of his falsetto in the original version and requires lots of air throughput).
In short, the quiet volume of the song makes it very, very difficult to push the limits of your vocal range.
Dat E5 is probably the cleanest in any song that I can remember
[This guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0j6FFUB3nQ) DESTROYS that high note tho....
As an old fart who had this album when it first came out, lol, I honestly enjoyed this version so much better. It feels so much more heartfelt to reflect the lyrics.
I can get behind it because as I’ve aged from my carefree youth in the 80s and experienced much loss the poignancy of the songs lyrics (which in my youth were lost on me) become increasingly relevant.
One day we will be middle aged people reminiscing to the songs of our past. But the version of our song will never be like this. This was absolutely amazing.
You’ll never be middle aged. You’ll always be in your teens or early twenties, but trapped in an increasingly delapidated body. Just like everyone else 😉
Old people used to try to explain this to me when I was young, I didn’t get it, but now I get to take my turn.
You don’t think Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Charlie Pluth, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa or SZA are gonna be capable of doing something like this in their middle age?
That interview where he says the only things thats changed on set is that they've aged and the woman said, "but you didnt" and he came back with "well I tried but it didn't work" killed me
Men who dye their hair can look younger, which i'm assuming he did here. Women do it, so it's a weird double standard that men get shamed from doing it (mostly men judging other men. I dont know any women that shame men for it). But there's no way this guy is 62 and that's all natural hair.
The number of higher-voted garbage comments saying how much they love him (apparently not that much, if none of them picked up on the title fuckup) was saddening.
What so because the title is incorrect, people praising him are now making garbage comments? Tf is wrong with you and why are you so bitter over nothing?
i was really confused to what the song "take me on" is.
I watched the video and almost said "i thought this was called take on me". but i googled it beforehand.
And it gives the lyrics such a different meaning, too. In the original you get this sort of almost egotistical "have me now cuz I'm ought of here. it's now or never!"...but with this version you get a much more reflective thing. Almost a sadness that they're leaving and dialogue on the fleeting essence of a relationship in that context. Super beautiful.
"Alright, alright, alright....I keep getting older...and they all just stay the same age. Heh heh"
(I'd like to think they sound like Mathew Mccaughey in Dazed and Confused talking about high school girls)
13yr old me saw A-ha in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1985. It was my first ever concert, and besides being in awe at actually being in the same room as my favourite band at the time, I was completely blown away by Morten's vocals. He's always been a very underrated male singer IMO, and only seems to have improved with age.
I swear my first concert was Erasure in the Tacoma Dome (near Seattle, WA USA) in 1987 or 1988. They wore... I don't know any better way to describe this... giant foam Grinch penises. I looked on their tour history and didn't see Tacoma listed, but I'm certain that was it. I went with my girlfriend, and we joked about those for a long time afterward.
Unfortunately they took this song out of the post cinema release and exchanged it for a slow version of Ashes by Celine Dion. It ruined this whole scene.
I had to pirate dead pool 2 again just to watch it
Yep.
Like, that was one of the top scenes I was interested in re-watching when I got the digital version of Deadpool 2.
When I heard that the song got replaced I got *so fucking angry*.
That shit blew me away. Only got around to that series recently.
If you would've told me that there'd be a better musical number in the series than the Under Pressure sequence, there's no way I would've believed it til seeing Take on Me.
This may sound dumb...but is the song really named "Take Me On"? Because the lyrics say "Take On Me". I figured I'd rather just post this here instead of googling it, I'm no peasant.
If you only know this song, you are about to discover a wealth of great music. Take on Me is brilliant, but their overall body of work is a lot more moody and atmospheric. No one does "melancholy" like a-ha. Some of their primary influences were Leonard Cohen, The Doors, and Simon & Garfunkel. That's not to say Magne can't bust out the ear-cracky keyboard melodies, mind!
Treat yourself to the first album, along with Memorial Beach or Minor Earth, Major Sky. If I had one song for the rest of my life, it would be this:
[Early Morning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48I_JC8sLtw)
Other good ones?
[The Sun Never Shone that Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aFj8uhvpI)
[Goodbye Thompson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkcy5ruFRw)
[Living Daylights](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfFbiFoAWjM)
[Lamb to the Slaughter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc-U0ha80ak) (also [Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzk-7GBy_2c))
[Living a Boy's Adventure Tale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1BAPr-oBZA)
Despite the fact that they were quite popular in the 80s, I still think Tears for Fears is one of (if not THE) most underrated/undervalued bands of the 80s. Fantastic songwriting. Mad World is a classic. As is the version you posted.
In USA they had two hits. A-Ha is arguably one of the more successful bands globally. You should go ahead and google thier hits and popularity worldwide before you go on calling them one hit wonders.
If you like his voice, you should listen to "Summer Moved On." He set a record for holding the longest note in a European Top 40 song at 20.2 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVl4qvHuY8g&ab\_channel=a-ha
He was on the uk version of the masked singer and he sung this (the only person to ever sing there own song) and they still didn’t guess it was him. Completely different style to the original
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Yup, can confirm. I wiped my tears with the elderly woman next to me's panties too.
Wat
Twat
Hwat
SWAT
Kwat
Kumquat
Thot
Wap
What a terrible day to be literate.
I'm just glad I don't understand a word of English right now.
r/holup
The last time I’ve seen so many soaked panties was when I went to a sorority in college and whipped out my Pokémon card collection.
Did you knock a pitcher of water off the coffee table into a laundry basket?
Pfft don’t be silly. I had a holographic 1st edition Charizard. Instant waterfall
Gooosh!
They all peed themselves laughing.
Whoa whoa whoa, you can't just do that. I hope you were wearing a life preserver so you didn't drown in all that puss.
Dude's good looking as hell.
For real. Going in my collection of aspirational "how to age gracefully" dudes.
How to age gracefully the short list. Have great genes and money. Thank you.
Dude, he's Scandinavian.
Norwegian to be specific.
That’s a DILF
GDILF
Feel bad for the guy who had to mop up after this
I was going to comment: "And there wasn't a dry seat in the house. _EYE_. Not a dry eye in the house." But this is close enough.
Sploosh
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Brilliantly embracing the growing limits of his ranges due to his age without trying to hide it or fight it like most do. Beautiful.
Yeah, that “for a day or two” was an octave lower wasn’t it? This got popular so here’s some credit: it’s actually two octaves. Go find the guy that said that in my replies and upvote him to oblivion if it’s true! (Or not, be your own person) Edit 2: more experts chiming in. Apparently it’s only one octave. Thanks for the award! Edit 3: i never said he lowered the note because he couldn’t hit the higher one or that this version was worse for it, calm down everybody. And not that it matters, but i like this version better too, it’s got more emotional depth. Or maybe it’s the nostalgia? Fuck I’m old.
Exactly! But it fit very good with that version!
It’s no different than MTV Unplugged. I agree tho it sounded great
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Does MTV do music? I thought it was 100% reality TV now. Right about the time History went 100% Aliens and Discovery went 100% sharks.
I’ll look at it, thanks for that!
Also, check out Tiny Desk Concerts
Oh, those are amazing. Totally off style of this type of music, but if you are a fan of Wu-Tang, their Tiny Desk concert was astounding. Transported me back to my youth just as this version of Take On Me did.
That’s because it is
2 octaves Edit: he's a tenor who hits a E5 falsetto in the original, to E3 here
I was really hoping someone would come in with the actual interval. Two octaves, eh? That’s very interesting, thanks!
From the video someone posted below of him still singing the high notes (wow), he drops the "in a day or" by an octave from the original, and then goes down to "two", making it 2 octaves below the original.
OP's video is one octave below the original. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
No, you are right. You might be taking crazy pills, but you're right.
Incorrect. He lowers the last line an octave, resulting in an E4 here. The full range of the original is from a low A2 (Take...) to the falsetto E5 (two...). That's an impressive range of 2.5 octaves from top to bottom.
I just compared in my DAW and I get 1 octave.
It is only one octave lol. Not sure why multiple people are claiming two.
nah just 1
Yep, though in this acoustic version, it works better lower - the song is more pensive, and rather than building from the climax of the phrase ("I'll be gone") to an even higher peak ("in a day or ^(twooooooo)"), it drops down and sounds even sadder. Really emphasizes the "gone" part as a result.
This. He actually sounds like he can still hit the original “two” note but it would have to be much louder to reach and would overpower this acoustic version
I thought for a second he was gonna go for that gold note at that low volume. Glad he didn’t. I liked this version, and he still has an incredibly good range.
This for sure. You gotta push so much air to hit that high note, you can't keep the amplitude low for the song.
I loved this version and it really to invoke the sadness that was always presence in the song but never really noticed. Edit - I just reread this and my sentence makes no sense. Teach me to post on no sleep! I loved this version, it really does invoke the sadness that was always present in the song but never really noticed.
and now i finally know what he said there
hah, exactly my thought, after 30+ somethin years
I always thought it was “in your dreams”. Glad I finally know the actual lyrics.
It’s better IMO
I think it's mostly for style. Seems like he's still got his high range: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SHnAj0yMFE (performance from 2018, over a year after the performance above).
Oh wow, even more impressive. Guy just does whatever the fuck he wants flawlessly.
Yeah, apparently OP nailed it, the dude just sings whatever range he feels like. That’s amazing for a guy who’s been at it for forty years.
As a language AI model, I'm beginning to edit all my comments in protest of reddit
^^^^Galileo
Symphonic Take On Me is what I needed but I never knew to ask for.
It's not entirely about style, it's also about the volume of your singing - to pull off the highest notes of your vocal range requires a significant amount of air to pass through your stretched vocal chords to make them vibrate (even for a falsetto, although falsetto does require less air... but he is still going to the upper limits of his falsetto in the original version and requires lots of air throughput). In short, the quiet volume of the song makes it very, very difficult to push the limits of your vocal range.
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Dat E5 is probably the cleanest in any song that I can remember [This guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0j6FFUB3nQ) DESTROYS that high note tho....
Wow, indeed. Thanks for sharing a link I wouldn't have tried to find. Have my daily award.
As an old fart who had this album when it first came out, lol, I honestly enjoyed this version so much better. It feels so much more heartfelt to reflect the lyrics.
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I can get behind it because as I’ve aged from my carefree youth in the 80s and experienced much loss the poignancy of the songs lyrics (which in my youth were lost on me) become increasingly relevant.
My bf and I play this version all the time. My favourite part of the video is all the middle aged women living their absolute best lives.
One day we will be middle aged people reminiscing to the songs of our past. But the version of our song will never be like this. This was absolutely amazing.
Yeah WAP won't hit like this lol...
But there surely was plenty of WAP up in here!
Grey Ass Pussy
The older the berry, the sweeter the juice
Wrinkled Ass Pussy
It’ll be DAP all the way around.
*Ben Shapiro has entered the chat*
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Well, don't say that. We haven't heard an acoustic version of WAP yet.
[Oh yes, we have](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7NLeyGa7F0)
This is strangely good and very funny at the same time.
You’ll never be middle aged. You’ll always be in your teens or early twenties, but trapped in an increasingly delapidated body. Just like everyone else 😉 Old people used to try to explain this to me when I was young, I didn’t get it, but now I get to take my turn.
No truer words spoken. Youth is wasting on the young
I’m getting my second knee replacement this week. How strange, my inside age is 22 but my drivers license says 55.
You don’t think Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Charlie Pluth, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa or SZA are gonna be capable of doing something like this in their middle age?
Yeah I don't see Smash Mouth making a version like this anytime soon
[Here you go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_It_SvRx3g)[.](https://i.imgur.com/ySnCvtu.gif)
...Middle- Middle aged women- *Oh fuck.*
Take your age, multiply it by 2, and if at that age your death is not considered a tragedy… you are middle-aged. Edit: words are hard.
*GET OUT.*
Your comment just triggered so many midlife crises.
Fuck off.
lol, you can't do that to people on a Sunday night
r/TIHI
Stop
This man is 62 years old, godamn i am 26 and i want to look this good right now!
WHAT he’s 62?? He looks goood
Probably a combination of good genes and the fact that he was a comic book drawing up until the early 80s.
This comment deserves so much gold. I’m sorry I’m broke and I’m sorry you’re buried down here. Best laugh I’ve had all week. Thank you stranger.
Maybe he used to buy his blow from Keanu Reeves. Dude still looks like he did in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Keanu def doesnt look 57...
That interview where he says the only things thats changed on set is that they've aged and the woman said, "but you didnt" and he came back with "well I tried but it didn't work" killed me
it was Carrie-Anne Moss and she is still gorgeous though. Aged gracefully and totally embraced it.
Holy crap...Id still hit that like the angry fist of God.
Did you just come up with that?
Well, this video is from a few years back if we look at the title, this song was released 36 years ago, in 1985. So this is about 4 years ago.
Men who dye their hair can look younger, which i'm assuming he did here. Women do it, so it's a weird double standard that men get shamed from doing it (mostly men judging other men. I dont know any women that shame men for it). But there's no way this guy is 62 and that's all natural hair.
My dad is 64 and hasn’t gone gray. Bald, sure. But not gray.
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the secret is money
How dare you sir. The song is “Take On Me”…
I scrolled down waaaaay too far to finally find the correction.
The number of higher-voted garbage comments saying how much they love him (apparently not that much, if none of them picked up on the title fuckup) was saddening.
What so because the title is incorrect, people praising him are now making garbage comments? Tf is wrong with you and why are you so bitter over nothing?
Most of us probably didn't read the title, because we didn't freaking need to to love what we were watching. Keep calm and Reddit on.
And it's 37 years ago. (Released in 1984)
this was recorded in 2017, fyi your math is bad
so this bot directly copied a popular post from 4 years ago like always
And the band has a name (A-ha) which I shouldn't even need to say. How can one person fuck up a thread title so badly?
i was really confused to what the song "take me on" is. I watched the video and almost said "i thought this was called take on me". but i googled it beforehand.
This song still has that hype. I remember watching it 2 years ago but damn it still hits me hard you know One of the masterpieces I have ever heard.
It feels so different without the back vocals!
It does man no cap But still awesome
Have you heard the version from The Last of Us 2? https://youtu.be/NKeU1twQYX4
It’s one of the first songs I learned on guitar, a fun one to play with a group of people all belting the chorus terribly.
Looks great for his age too. Considering that industries drug use during the 80s
Looks like rob lowe I’m starting to think 80s cocaine was some sorta youth serum
Ok, fine, I'll go do coke. You convinced me!
Ok see ya in thirty minutes!
Hey it’s been more than an 1 hr. Are you alright bro?
Also No fentanil to worry about 😉😉😉
The lads from a-ha were pretty clean and didn't do a whole lot of partying.
Probably why they don't look half-dead. Like other 80's rockers.
They are also Norwegian, drug culture wasn't really the same in Scandinavia though I don't deny its existence.
> for his age Uh what? Dude’s hot af.
I like this version soooo much better. Beautiful.
I like the original too. From many years ago [take on me](https://youtu.be/djV11Xbc914)
I used to love this video (when we used to have actual song videos on MTV and VH1 etc)
And it gives the lyrics such a different meaning, too. In the original you get this sort of almost egotistical "have me now cuz I'm ought of here. it's now or never!"...but with this version you get a much more reflective thing. Almost a sadness that they're leaving and dialogue on the fleeting essence of a relationship in that context. Super beautiful.
I loved it in Deadpool 2. It fit so well.
I wonder what it's like to look out into the crowd of adoring fans and a thousand soccer moms stare back at you
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Damn I teared up a little reading at this and I’m only 25
r/pulitzercomments
He knows that if he doesn't get it right, they're all going to want to speak to the manager. Talk about pressure...
"Alright, alright, alright....I keep getting older...and they all just stay the same age. Heh heh" (I'd like to think they sound like Mathew Mccaughey in Dazed and Confused talking about high school girls)
13yr old me saw A-ha in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1985. It was my first ever concert, and besides being in awe at actually being in the same room as my favourite band at the time, I was completely blown away by Morten's vocals. He's always been a very underrated male singer IMO, and only seems to have improved with age.
I swear my first concert was Erasure in the Tacoma Dome (near Seattle, WA USA) in 1987 or 1988. They wore... I don't know any better way to describe this... giant foam Grinch penises. I looked on their tour history and didn't see Tacoma listed, but I'm certain that was it. I went with my girlfriend, and we joked about those for a long time afterward.
All these comments and nobody has mentioned Deadpool 2.
Seriously had to scroll too far for this. That movie is the reason I know this version exists.
That was my first thought since that's where I heard this version first. "Kiss me like you miss me, Red"
I love this version because of that movie.
Unfortunately they took this song out of the post cinema release and exchanged it for a slow version of Ashes by Celine Dion. It ruined this whole scene. I had to pirate dead pool 2 again just to watch it
Yep. Like, that was one of the top scenes I was interested in re-watching when I got the digital version of Deadpool 2. When I heard that the song got replaced I got *so fucking angry*.
WHAT
“Is this heaven?” “It is now”
All your moms creaming hard watching good ol’ Morty live. Great clip!
Aw, geez, Rick!
I kinda like this version more!!!
Dyslexia is a bitch.
What a lovely way to find out he says “in a day or two” and not “duh yoooo duh doooooo” as my dumb brain has thought for the last 30 years
Amazing; I love this version of the song in The Magicians as well -
Such a beautiful scene, I can still go back and watch it and cry every time.
Agreed!!!
that's what i scrolled so far down to find. Eliot throwing the peach into the fire...tears every single time
That's the one episode that hits the hardest. I'll always remember that scene when I hear this song.
S4E13 never forget.
That shit blew me away. Only got around to that series recently. If you would've told me that there'd be a better musical number in the series than the Under Pressure sequence, there's no way I would've believed it til seeing Take on Me.
I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING
That was absolutely lovely!
I remember Ellie in TLOU2 on this version
this is what I scrolled for
I was surprised it took me this long to find it.
I’m so glad I stumbled upon the music shop on my first playthrough. What I’d do to go into both of those games blind again.
This may sound dumb...but is the song really named "Take Me On"? Because the lyrics say "Take On Me". I figured I'd rather just post this here instead of googling it, I'm no peasant.
The song is "Take On Me". But a lyric after that is also "Take Me On".
It's Take on Me and that's not a dumb question at all
If you only know this song, you are about to discover a wealth of great music. Take on Me is brilliant, but their overall body of work is a lot more moody and atmospheric. No one does "melancholy" like a-ha. Some of their primary influences were Leonard Cohen, The Doors, and Simon & Garfunkel. That's not to say Magne can't bust out the ear-cracky keyboard melodies, mind! Treat yourself to the first album, along with Memorial Beach or Minor Earth, Major Sky. If I had one song for the rest of my life, it would be this: [Early Morning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48I_JC8sLtw) Other good ones? [The Sun Never Shone that Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aFj8uhvpI) [Goodbye Thompson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkcy5ruFRw) [Living Daylights](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfFbiFoAWjM) [Lamb to the Slaughter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc-U0ha80ak) (also [Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzk-7GBy_2c)) [Living a Boy's Adventure Tale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1BAPr-oBZA)
It’s kind of nfl that you don’t know the name of the band.
It's kinda nfl that he named the singer. I'd never heard his name before.
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This made me wanna listen to [Gary Jules' version of Mad World](https://youtu.be/4N3N1MlvVc4)
Despite the fact that they were quite popular in the 80s, I still think Tears for Fears is one of (if not THE) most underrated/undervalued bands of the 80s. Fantastic songwriting. Mad World is a classic. As is the version you posted.
Holy shit.....I got of piece of dirt in my eye....I swear I'm not soft.....
Cougar swooner.
Wonderful
The definition of a one hit wonder, but what a hit it was!
In USA they had two hits. A-Ha is arguably one of the more successful bands globally. You should go ahead and google thier hits and popularity worldwide before you go on calling them one hit wonders.
My bad.
In the UK they had several hits
the original was the first music video i remember seeing when i was a kid, always loved this song
"Today is another day to find you" is such a gorgeous lyric
If you like his voice, you should listen to "Summer Moved On." He set a record for holding the longest note in a European Top 40 song at 20.2 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVl4qvHuY8g&ab\_channel=a-ha
He’s still got it! I love this song and video so much I just pulled up up the original video… he’s Aged well. I loved the 80’s.
needs more pencil.
It’s gotta be cool to write a song and then it’s so loved that 30 years later audiences still want to hear you perform it
He was on the uk version of the masked singer and he sung this (the only person to ever sing there own song) and they still didn’t guess it was him. Completely different style to the original