If you’ve never heard the MTV Unplugged version, do yourself a favour.
Behind the 80’s synthpop cheerfulness there’s a lovely sad song.
There’s also this version.
Help me
Ok, if you insist.
This meme uses a play on words, relating the term “a-ha moment” as a point of realisation to the name of the Norwegian band “a-ha”. The pencil sketch filter imitates the music video of a-ha’s “take on me”.
Fun fact: They were trying to sing “touch me”, but the songwriter didn’t know English very well and just translated the Norwegian “ta på meg” word for word.
Would that make the next line “ta meg på”? Does that have a meaning?
I prefer the translation “hold on to me.” Seems to match the video better.
The music video for Take On Me by Aha uses a technique called rotoscoping, which is where you take live action footage and draw or paint over it to make it look like a cartoon. If you look up the video, it should be pretty evident what the relationship is to the meme.
You likely already know this part, but “an A-Ha moment” is an idiom that refers to a sudden insight or realization, and here is a play on words, invoking the music group mentioned above: It’s an “A-Ha moment” not due to a flash of insight, but due to temporarily(…?) taking on me the appearance of being rotoscoped.
But this is a filter, not a rotoscope. So, it’s not really an aha moment.
I am pleased that you understand well enough now to form that opinion, lol.
