I'll tell you why Morten Harket looks more 80's than 80's. He actually introduced that look - with the wristbands and torn jeans.

The videos of a-ha songs always have something cool and special (colors, images, etc).

My favourite a-ha song (next to "The Sun Always Shines on TV") is probably their comeback single "Summer Moved On" from 2000. Also love "Foot of the Mountain" from 2009. "Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)" from 2010 is also beautiful with its retrospective video. Going back to the 80s/90s: Listen to "I've Been Losing You", "Manhattan Skyline", "Cry Wolf" and "Crying in the Rain".

the sun always shines on tv got to number one in England were was take on me only got to number 3. Other interesting fact about a-ha, in 1991 they played a 25 date tour of South America with a total attendance of over 3 million people, including one gig that had 198,000 people which was a Guinness book of record for a paying audience.

Morten isn’t trying to look 80’s he defines the 80’s for most people. He accidentally ripped his jeans on an amplifier when he was rushing on stage and his ripped jeans were noticed and then copied, went global, and became the craze that’s still around today...sometimes it’s wrongly attributed to Madonna. He also started the leather wristband look which was his trademark look. He is the furthest thing from cheesy you could ever imagine, and everything you see about his looks comes completely natural to him...he’s just the most naturally sexy guy ever, and even at 61 he still is. He hated the fact that the press always focussed on his good looks, and all the band wanted was to write and perform great music. They are actually one of the best live bands of the past 35 years...bar none, and have influenced Coldplay and Keane to name but two younger bands. You really just have no idea about this band at all, they have sold over 100 million records with virtually no sales in the USA except for Take On Me, the mind boggles at what their sales would’ve been had they been marketed properly there. They hold 2 Guinness World records and did a James Bond theme, and sell out stadia around the world at any of their live concerts, their current world tour was interrupted due to Covid, but they hope to resume it with rescheduled dates in 2021.

Morten is not tryimg to look like the 80’s, he was the 80’s, and the one who started the trend (leather/jeans etc). I remember everyone was going around wearing different leather arm bands just as Morten (even I did, being a girl). He was a trend setter for sure....and every girl/women wanted to be his girlfriend. If you want to check out one of their newer songs try «Foot of the mountain (from 2009)/«Shadowside» or from their last album «Cast in steel» (2015)», «Under the make up»

Something about his voice??

It erased my additional comment, when I was searching for another official video... Ok. I'll try to remember, what I wrote. You cannot go by the amount of views from a-ha on KZfaq. The band was big in the 1980s and according to USA a 'one-hit-wonder'. Not for the fans in Europe and Asia! 10 albums in total, 3 in the 1980s and a new album in tbe making for 2022 (according to Wikipedia, 😵) I'VE BEEN LOSING YOU, HUNTING HIGH AND LOW were great songs and even their cover of CRYING IN THE RAIN. After posting the link to the 50M view title track of their album STAY ON THESE ROADS there is another very interesting video in comic-style: MANHATTAN SKYLINE [SPOILER ALERT] The title of this song are actually the very last 2 words of this song... Here the link to that song: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jb9ipZVpspe4oo0.html And if you want to watch another very interesting video of this band then search for FOREVER NOT YOURS...you'll not regret it!

This Is anche 80's Song .And this sounds Amazing 😊

A little review I did for this track, hope you don't mind and it gives some context! Inarguable pop classics #1: A-ha: The Sun Always Shines on TV  News Opinion Preview Inarguable pop classics #1: A-ha: The Sun Always Shines on TV February 13, 20152 min readNikolai Rainbow Norwegian pop perfectionists A-ha were always more than just another pop group, such was their reach and mastery of their craft: pretty much any of their 80’s singles could have made this article bar their lightweight playful songs such as “Touchy!” which to my mind never could match their darker more tense songs, and my god, “The Sun Always Shines …” is tense as hell, especially coming after the worldwide smash Take On Me which was far more poppy and lightweight. It’s essentially a progressive rock epic filtered through a pop lens and is every bit as momentous as any of the great epic tracks we all know and love. Consider the way the tension builds throughout rising higher and higher and the fact that the drums don’t even appear until a minute in and the first verse almost two minutes in. This is far from your average pop song structurally but hangs together magnificently. The relative serenity of the opening section and first chorus with its wistful chords suddenly gives way to pounding intensity, squealing guitars, ominous synth and stabbing minor piano chords with Mortens impassioned, desperate and impossibly high vocal holding it all together until the final chorus where the music crashes around him. Before a final stabbing piano chord a la “A Day In The Life” and the ominous burbling synths return to fade us out of an epic five minutes. Truly a classic of its time or any other and far more than ‘just’ a pop song in my humble opinion and just as exhilarating on the thousandth listen as it was on the first. True class.

I will truly recomend you to watch the acoustic version of take on me, as well. It is from 2017

I should say a-ha are still around , their latest world tour was interrupted by the virus

They invented the 80's :)

This video was directed by Steve Barron , who also directed take on me, plus manny more a-ha video’s who was born in my city Dublin ireland 😁 you have yourself a new subscriber 👍 plenty more a-ha suggestions for more a-ha stuff if you like.

Tus reacciones son genuinas 🙏🙏🙏 saludos desde Perú 🇵🇪 gran canal te ganaste un nuevo subscriptor

As Norwegian - I always played down A-Ha since I was more into punk - rock and prog and all that good shit. They were a boy-band - right? As I am older now - these boys were framed as a boyband ca 7 years before Nirvana came around and defined another straightjacket - Grunge (and defined the neo-garage sound). Almost 3 decades later, I am pretty sure Foo Fighters could do this song without irony. And when one listens to FF's latest single "shame shame" - there are call-backs in there. (Listen to how Dave Grohl does the "train-pattern" on the high-hat on Hero. If Aha had been discovered 2 years later - I bet they would be traded by the record company as "alternative" - in the time just before Prince went a bit funny as "symbol" to reclaim his identity back in the days.

You should react to him performing this song at the noble peace prize awards show!

hunting high and low would be a great video and song to continue with. It is from the same album

Great reaction to my fav song ever probably lol, this song went to number 1 here in the uk, If you want some more a-ha vids/songs I’ll recommend some

Check out their song Hunting High and Low. The video is also amazing: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qZyGlMh3qN7YkWw.html

Cheesy you say? You should hear him talk!