{"id":4316,"date":"2019-06-21T01:57:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2019-06-21T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:57:38","slug":"your-chance-to-see-a-ha-perform-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2019\/06\/your-chance-to-see-a-ha-perform-on-them\/","title":{"rendered":"A-Ha Is Running A Contest -Your Chance To See Them Perform In Norway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a fun little <strong>contest<\/strong> underway and you probably don&#8217;t even know it.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who grew up in the 80&#8217;s, and the days of <strong>Much Music<\/strong> and <strong>MTV,<\/strong> when they actually played <em>videos<\/em>, will remember just what a big deal it was when videos were released. You&#8217;ll remember the<em> big ones<\/em>. The ones that changed the way other videos were done.<\/p>\n<p>You had the big movie type videos &#8211; think Michael Jackson &#8220;Thriller&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And you had the videos that were a first of it&#8217;s kind.<\/p>\n<p>When <em><strong>A-ha<\/strong><\/em> released the video for <em>&#8220;Take On Me&#8221;<\/em> it was a BIG DEAL.\u00a0 The video used a pencil-sketch animation \/ live-action combination called rotoscoping, in which the live-action footage is traced over frame by frame to give the characters realistic movements. Approximately 3,000 frames were rotoscoped. It took 16 weeks to complete.<\/p>\n<p>It won <strong>six<\/strong> awards at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards &#8211; including <em>Best New Artist in a Video, Best Concept Video, Most Experimental Video, Best Direction, Best Special Effects and Viewer&#8217;s Choice<\/em> AND was nominated for two others.\u00a0\u00a0Pretty impressive at the time, and still. Probably why so many people are still watching.<\/p>\n<p>The video is so close to a BILLION VIEWS and in anticipation, the band is holding a contest.<\/p>\n<p>The contest is NOT for the one-billionth viewer, but to <em>pick the date and time<\/em> of the one-billionth view.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A-ha<\/strong> will <em>fly the winner and a guest to the band&#8217;s home country of Norway to meet them and see them perform on February 7th.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Make your pick now by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/takeonme.a-ha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are\u00a0just over 905 million views of the video at the time of posting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/djV11Xbc914\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a fun little contest underway and you probably don&#8217;t even know it. 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