Trump a-ha

a-ha member not happy that Trump's new video looks like "Take On Me" video

As you may have seen, Donald Trump recently put out a characteristically obnoxious new campaign video which featured pencil tracings of live action footage that was noticeably similar in style to a-ha‘s classic “Take On Me” video, and at least one member of a-ha is not happy about it. Rolling Stone asked keyboardist and co-songwriter Magne Furuholmen what he thought of the video, and he replied, “Even blind pigs can find truffles.” He continued:

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.

You want to be careful about deciding who’s allowed to do what with what you put out in the world. …We make our music for everybody. 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.

We are Norwegian-born, but we have friends all over the world and are concerned about what the world’s coming to. In many respects, our heart bleeds for the America we believed in growing up. But when you get dragged into things like this, you have to lie back and laugh.

Furuholmen also added that the protest song he released last month, “This Is Now America,” was released in direct response to the Trump administration.

If you haven’t seen it and want to, you can watch Trump’s video here and compare it to the “Take On Me” video below…