WATCH: A man performs a-ha's "Take on Me" by hitting his face
The hit song, "Take On Me" by Norwegian Pop band is a classic to many, but watch how this man performs it...
We love it when people reenvision music and add their own personal touch to a song; you know what we mean?
Like when they use instruments or come up with a unique take to a popular song. We always think of that little girl who came on America's Got Talent and showed us that she could give Alicia Keys a run for her talent with her version of "Girl On Fire".
But this was something completely different, yet the passion behind it was very similar. This guy decided to show his love for this song by performing it in a very unique way. A way that perhaps you would do in a drama class or in a game of truth or dare...
He decided to do his take on a-ha's "Take On Me", a song that won many awards in its time. The only thing is his version had a lot of cheek-slaps, forehead-smacks, tooth-taps, and cheek-flicks, and overall hitting of his face. Before you watch him, check out the original below.
"At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the video for "Take On Me" won six awards—Best New Artist in a Video, Best Concept Video, Most Experimental Video, Best Direction, Best Special Effects, and Viewer's Choice—and was nominated for two others, Best Group Video and Video of the Year. "Take On Me" was also nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Video at the 13th American Music Awards in 1986." (YouTube)
Watch the original hit performed by a-ha in the 80s (courtesy of YouTube):
If you don't get a chuckle out of this then we hit a miss here, but somehow we still get surprised at how we find someone getting hurt - not severely - tends to amuse us. It's one of those things we could never answer...
Watch the video (courtesy of YouTube) below of Ramses The Pigeon, if you are intrigued this is how he did it:
"The melody was performed live (over the course of several takes), then overlaid with a MIDI track that gave the melodic component more prominence. Each track was then adjusted slightly for overall tone and volume, after which the finished song was exported. Finally, I filmed myself “playing” the song, then futzed around with some effects to give it something which vaguely resembled a “Take On Me” style." (YouTube)
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