{"id":490775,"date":"2019-10-01T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T21:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=893508"},"modified":"2019-10-01T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T21:30:04","slug":"a-ha-member-responds-to-trumps-take-on-me-ad-even-blind-pigs-can-find-truffles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/a-ha-member-responds-to-trumps-take-on-me-ad-even-blind-pigs-can-find-truffles\/","title":{"rendered":"A-ha Member Responds to Trump\u2019s \u2018Take on Me\u2019 Ad: \u2018Even Blind Pigs Can Find Truffles\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Magne Furuholmen, the keyboardist and co-songwriter for Norwegian synthpop band A-ha<\/a>, has responded to a recent re-election ad<\/a> from President Donald Trump<\/a> that visually borrows from the group\u2019s classic video for \u201cTake on Me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou write a song in your youth and you don\u2019t write for a particular group of people one way or another; you write it for everyone. But then stuff like this happens,\u201d Furuholmen tells Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The video for \u201cTake on Me,\u201d released in 1985 and directed by renowned British videographer Steve Barron, became famous for its landmark use of rotoscoping, a technique of tracing live-action footage frame-by-frame with pencil drawings to form animation. MTV quickly latched onto the clip\u2019s unique visuals and put it in heavy rotation, skyrocketing A-ha into international fame and turning \u201cTake on Me\u201d into one of the most iconic videos from the MTV era.<\/p>\n

While \u201cTake on Me\u201d certainly isn\u2019t the only piece of visual art, let alone the only music video, to use rotoscoping, its style is so recognizable that when Trump posted his campaign ad to Twitter on Monday night, Twitter users immediately evoked A-ha\u2019s clip.<\/p>\n

The musician says he received no warning from Trump\u2019s team about the ad and, that, because of the time difference in Norway, he awoke to find the clip already well into the process of going viral online. When asked what he thinks of Trump borrowing the rotoscope look from the A-ha video, Furuholmen says, \u201cEven blind pigs can find truffles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to be careful about deciding who\u2019s allowed to do what with what you put out in the world. \u2026We make our music for everybody. We didn\u2019t intend to make our music part of a divisive campaign and, all things equal, would have preferred it not to have been,\u201d he says, adding that a protest song he released last month, \u201cThis Is Now America,\u201d<\/a> was in direct response to the Trump administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We are Norwegian-born, but we have friends all over the world and are concerned about what the world\u2019s coming to,\u201d he says. \u201cIn 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Magne Furuholmen, the keyboardist and co-songwriter for Norwegian synthpop band A-ha, has responded to a recent re-election ad from President Donald Trump that visually borrows from the group\u2019s classic video for \u201cTake on Me.\u201d \u201cYou write a song in your youth and you don\u2019t write for a particular group of people one way or another; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 20:55:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}