Better Safe Than Sorry
There’s something so sophisticated about a slow-motion, moody cover of an upbeat song that you know by heart (seeAnthony and Johnsons , cover ofBeyoncé’s Crazy in Love ). But it can be especially thrilling when the band uses MTV Unplugged for one of their own songs, as in the recently released acoustic version of their classic 1980s synth-pop “Take on Me” by a-ha.
If you suggested to me last week that there is some way to improve the original 1985 version of Take on Me (that was 32 years ago, my friends, no, you have n’t grown a day old), I would be skeptical. …The video , the miracle of rotoscoping and mousse Stu-Stu-Studio Line from L’Oréal, is still a revelation – who has never dreamed that a comic book hero can reach out of the page and pull them out of their gray life. an animated adventure?
But the acoustic cover is great. Now 58-year-old Morten Harket still knows how to play those high notes of falsetto in the chorus, the cut-down instruments are a great addition to his plaintive wail, and watching the audience contemplating those words with him is wonderful to behold.
If you want a subtle yet fiery soundtrack for your workday, you’re no better than MTV’s recently released a-ha album Unplugged: Summer Solstice , which includes other songs you’ve forgotten about love, such as “The Sun Always Shines on TV”. “And – well, it was actually the only other track I knew on the album, but compliments will appreciate deeper versions like” The Living Daylights “, the title track from the 1987 James Bond movie, and guest appearances by Ian McCulloch. and Alison Moyet. …