A Love Letter to the Best of the 80s Music Video Era
“Take On Me” by A-ha hits all the right notes and is a special sort of perfect
In the 1980s, we used to sit around watching music videos. You never had to spend a second thinking about what you were going to watch. It was a whole decade of MTV and chill. For the life of me, I still can’t understand why they ever changed the format.
It was perfect. It was radio but on the television. They didn’t have talk shows. They didn’t have reality shows. They didn’t have dudes behind desks babbling on about their uninteresting opinions. The first iteration was perfect and everything they added later made it worse.
Imagine video after video after video. The only interruption was a little block of text down in the corner that revealed the album where the song was from.
As it is with all things, the video music era has ended. We took it for granted, it’s never coming back. Although that’s sad, now at least we can entertain ourselves by making the ultimate determination of the best that era had to offer.
It’s no contest. The answer is “Take On Me” by A-ha.
