Add A-HA to the list of musicians who are upset about politicians using their stuff. Only in this case, it’s got nothing to do with the actual music.
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On Monday, Donald Trump released a new campaign video that uses the infamous “rotoscoping” technique that A-Ha made famous in their “Take On Me” video.
It’s not like A-Ha owns rotoscoping or anything, but it is an irrefutable scientific fact that the second you see it used in any context whatsoever, you immediately think “Take On Me”.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2019
So the association is clear, and A-Ha’s Magne Furuholmen isn’t happy about it. He says, quote, “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.”
He adds, quote, “We make our music for everybody. We didn’t intend to make our music part of a divisive campaign.”
Oh, and Twitter has jokes too!
https://twitter.com/SantaInc/status/1178826519537340417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1178826519537340417&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Farticles%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F8531826%2Fdonald-trump-reposts-a-ha-video-tweets
Donald Trump dancing like a drunk Colonel Sanders is an entire mood. pic.twitter.com/C3LmAFEnsl
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) October 1, 2019
https://twitter.com/SantaInc/status/1178827311631585280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1178827311631585280&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Farticles%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F8531826%2Fdonald-trump-reposts-a-ha-video-tweets
