The album peaked at number one in their native country Norway, number 2 in the UK, and number 15 on the US Billboard album chart yielded two international number-one singles: " Take On Me" and " The Sun Always Shines on T.V." and earned the band a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Artist. In the UK, Hunting High and Low continued its chart success into the following year, becoming one of the best-selling albums of 1986. The band released studio albums in 1986, 1988, and 1990, with single hits including " Hunting High and Low", " The Living Daylights", " Stay on These Roads", and " Crying in the Rain". In 1994, after their fifth studio album, Memorial Beach (1993), failed to achieve the commercial success of their previous albums, the band went on hiatus. įollowing a performance at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in 1998, A-ha recorded their sixth album, 2000's Minor Earth Major Sky, which was another number-one album in Norway and Germany. This album was followed by Lifelines (2002) Analogue (2005), which was certified Silver in the UK and Foot of the Mountain (2009), which was certified Silver in the UK and reached the top five in many European countries. The format has the potential to encourage judgmental attitudes in the wrong hands, but can also be insightful and funny.On 15 October 2009, the band announced they would split after the 2010 worldwide Ending on a High Note Tour.
Many of the posts play with internal stereotypes which have grown popular on Gay Twitter, such as the idea that queer people often struggle with driving, maths and caffeine addictions. One such entry read: “No gay has all five: good grades. can math.” “No gay has all five: a beard. Iced tweeter jokingly included just four options to demonstrate his lack of maths skills, writing: “No gay has all five: a beard. a healthy relationship with their parents.
a consistent view of childrearing.” complicated family relations recurrent theme in “No gay has all five” meme iced coffee.”Ī different user said: “no gay has all five: doesn’t cause ppl to mute the group text. Some have pointed out that many gay people aren’t on great terms with their parents-especially their dad.
Perhaps the most obvious version of this was a tweet which listed “good relationship with father” four times before adding in: “clear skin.”Īnother person wrote: “no gay has all five. a dad who loves them.”Ī particularly savage post in this vein read: “no gay person has all five of these: 1. Others turned the meme into a joke, like the person who referenced American musical Rent by writing: “No gay has all five: hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes.” Gay people allegedly don’t do well with keeping people on a group text. Create a sarcastic list and not run out of answers.” No gay has the ability to use the bullet point, apparently.know that really, nobody gives a flying monkeys.the ability to not brag when they reckon that they do.”.resist the urge to spam their friends by retweeting.One of these read: “No gay has the ability to do all five: (wrongmiles/twitter)Īnd some went meta, using the meme’s format to criticise the meme itself.