'80s Band A-ha is Horrified Trump Stole the Look of Their 'Take On Me' Video for a Campaign Ad:

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’80s Band A-ha is Horrified Trump Stole the Look of Their ‘Take On Me’ Video for a Campaign Ad: ‘Even Blind Pigs Can Find Truffles’


This week Donald Trump tweeted a new campaign ad that borrowed the animation style used in Norwegian synthpop band A-ha’s iconic video for the 1985 hit “Take On Me”. The ad tries to make the corrupt con man likable using an animation style known as rotoscoping which involves tracing live-action film with pencil drawings. Twitter noticed.

Link to tweet

Rolling Stone asked keyboardist and co-songwriter Magne Furuholmen how he felt about Trump borrowing the video’s look.

Replied Furuholmen: “Even blind pigs can find truffles. … You write a song in your youth and you don’t write for a particular group of people one way or another; you write it for everyone. But then stuff like this happens.”

“We make our music for everybody,” the keyboardist added. “We didn’t intend to make our music part of a divisive campaign and, all things equal, would have preferred it not to have been.”

Read more: https://www.towleroad.com/2019/10/aha-trump/

[Anon-C]

1. You are a sick mofo, Brad Parscale, and you have no soul.