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Parodies and recreations of the music video for Take On Me. Usually done in the same style of animation as the music video.  
 
Parodies and recreations of the music video for Take On Me. Usually done in the same style of animation as the music video.  
  
'''A-Ha''' was a musical group from the 1980's that focused on synth-pop fused with ballad and rock. In correspondence to YTMND, a fad was created most likely when A-Ha's music video for their one hit, "Take On Me" was parodied on an episode of Family Guy ''Breaking Out is Hard to Do''. This inspired YTMNDers to take the pencil-sketch animation style used in the original and parody videos, and apply it via Photoshop filters, hand-drawn sketches, etc. to current [[fads]].  
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'''A-ha''' was a musical group from the 1980's that focused on synth-pop fused with ballad and rock. In correspondence to YTMND, a fad was created most likely when a-ha's music video for their one hit, "Take On Me" was parodied on an episode of Family Guy ''Breaking Out is Hard to Do''. This inspired YTMNDers to take the pencil-sketch animation style used in the original and parody videos, and apply it via Photoshop filters, hand-drawn sketches, etc. to current [[fads]].  
  
A few YTMND sites that used A-Ha's style of animation made it to Top 15, but it was a large fad overall, with a few recurring sites still being created.
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A few YTMND sites that used a-ha's style of animation made it to Top 15, but it was a large fad overall, with a few recurring sites still being created.
  
{{Wikipedia|A-Ha}}
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[[Category:Fads]]
 
[[Category:Fads]]
 
[[Category:Culture references]]
 
[[Category:Culture references]]

Revision as of 10:29, July 19, 2006

Parodies and recreations of the music video for Take On Me. Usually done in the same style of animation as the music video.

A-ha was a musical group from the 1980's that focused on synth-pop fused with ballad and rock. In correspondence to YTMND, a fad was created most likely when a-ha's music video for their one hit, "Take On Me" was parodied on an episode of Family Guy Breaking Out is Hard to Do. This inspired YTMNDers to take the pencil-sketch animation style used in the original and parody videos, and apply it via Photoshop filters, hand-drawn sketches, etc. to current fads.

A few YTMND sites that used a-ha's style of animation made it to Top 15, but it was a large fad overall, with a few recurring sites still being created.

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