Music Video
The music video (directed by Steve Barron) opens with a continuation of the "Take on Me" video, featuring rotoscoped animation.
The love story between Morten Harket and Bunty Bailey established in the previous video is given an unexpectedly bitter end. The two lovers are admiring each other in a dark forest when Harket's hand starts reverting to its animated state. Soon his whole body is consumed by the animation. Hunched over, Harket sees his beloved for the last time as she bites her lip, knowing that the two cannot coexist in the same world. After exchanging painful parting glances, Harket runs into the distance and a blue explosion swallows him up, sending him back to his comic book world; the girl is left all alone in the forest. Only at this point does the song begin.
The rest of the video features A-ha performing in a church (St Albans, now The Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, London) "accompanied" by mannequins. The video ends as the three band members are cut out from the background and become a still frame. The music video for the band's next single, "Train of Thought", was to pick up from this shot, as a continuation of a trilogy.
Harket and Bailey began dating in real life after meeting on the first video shoot, their relationship lasting several months.
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