A-Ha – The Sun Always Shines On Tv

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  General Comment:The MunDial is talking so much shite!
  
  The song is about things falling apart all around us, so much so that if we really realised how hopeless everything was we would probably go insane. But no matter how bad it always gets, the sun always shines on TV, meaning, according to TV everything is cool (we are being brainwashed into believing everything is okay).

  Flag SilverScreen89on December 27, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:Seems it's about someone who is hoping for a better tomorrow, yet finds only darkness and despair. Nothing within will shine, yet the sun always rises in dreams.

  Flag Jordo013on July 14, 2010   Link

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  Memory:I picked up this on songfacts.com:
  "Phil Waaktaar, a-ha's guitarist and writer of this song is quoted in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh as saying: The Sun Always Shines On TV was written on one of those down days. Me and Mags (Furuholmen, keyboards) were in a hotel watching English television on a rainy day and the guy announcing the program says, 'It's a rainy day but, as always, the sun always shines on TV.' The song is about the power of television and the way television presents life."
  
  Great Song BTW....

  Flag Alemontyon February 10, 2009   Link

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    To me, maybe because of personal experience, but it talks to me of a girlfriend or wife who wants a fairytale relationship or soap opera one or whatever like on the television, where everyone is rich and beautiful and perfect. But the guy is seated in reality and can't give her all those things, and there is some contention between them. He is telling her "The Sun Always Shines on TV", so love me and hold me, despite our imperfect lives.

    Flag Raavakon December 17, 2009  
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  General Comment:How good is this song? I'll tell you: it's not only better than "Take on Me," which isn't actually that hard to achieve, but also better than "Manhattan Skyline" and "Stay on These Roads," which is.
  
  A mostly lost classic that no fan of '80s synth should be without.

  Flag raffishtenant2on February 08, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Most of what has been said already seems spot on. More a case of a person looking for shiny sunny days in his life (as seen on tv) but is mostly assailed by greyer days and times. He wants a significant other who may be real or a fantasy (porn?) who might make him happier like on tv.

  Flag maqsimillionon July 24, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:probably my fav a-ha song of them all, and one of best ever period

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  General Comment:Awesome song, and I think comment#1 nailed the meaning of the lyrics: the contrast between gray, inner real-life confusion and bright TV happy endings.

  Flag xxandyon April 14, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I like the comment about the sun shining on the screen and stopping some kid seeing the cartoons, but I always thought it meant that - especially in the 80s - everything on TV was sunny and happy and perfect with its happy endings, like how we sometimes just gloss over all the troubles in our lives and the world.

  Flag Gay Christmas Treeon January 26, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I love this song. It's so beautiful. I think he's talking about how he is in love with a celebrity and it pains him that he'll never get to be with her.
  
  For me, i could adapt this easy to cybernetic love, but replacing 'TV' with 'PC ' ^_-

  Flagged BlackDragonon September 20, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:OMG! I can barely remember the video but I just recently bought there greatest hits, love this song and hunting high and low s well. But here's what I think this song means a release or trying to break free from someone and everything is best seen through the eyes of the tv, hence the sun always shine... its a way to escape.
  
  Another one is porn. I can't help but wonder if there is a great satisfaction to the person when he insert a vhs (8os) of his favorite star in his vcr and press play. The lyrics clearly suggest others but those are my top two.

  Flag oh7xMson March 15, 2007   Link

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