Rick "Rickroll" Astley interviewed
Over at the Los Angeles Times, David Sarno has posted a funny audio interview with the famed '80s singer after whom the Rickroll is named. And thank gopod: Rick Astley forswears doing any YouTube remixes of his own. Snip:
Link. Oh wait, jeez, sorry! Here you go, there's your link.Over the last year or so, Astley has watched with puzzled amazement as “Never Gonna Give You Up” has been mocked, celebrated, remixed and reprised, its original music video viewed millions of times on YouTube, all by a generation that could barely swallow its Gerber carrots when the song first topped the pop charts. “I think it’s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it,” Astley said. “But that’s what brilliant about the Internet.”
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#&$%! Should have expected a Rickroll on an article about it. Curse you!
They missed a golden opportunity with all those embedded audios.
I loved that Rick actually sort of understood the idea of a "meme", more so than people from older generations seem too.
I just wish the next song people used for something similar to a Rickroll was this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BnOUOkcr9c
(I promise it isn't a RickRoll!)
Triple fragmentation alert! I commented this on Scott Beale's FriendFeed an hour or so ago: "Fragmentation alert! Posted the following to Ariel a couple hours ago: "How about Nick Lowe's "All Men Are Liars" in which he sings "Do you remember Rick Astley? He had a big hit / It was ghastly"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg-BiWZMXPA" and then i said, "Enter Nickrollin'" You've been Nickrolled!
Easy now. It's not as if Rick recorded this song on a phonograph cylinder. I'm fairly certain "people from older generations" can grok a concept as simple as meme. Of course, I'm not sure people from subsequent generations understand the real beauty of parachute pants.
EPIC LULZ
How could I fell into the trap of your first Link?
I've known people who have been rickroll'd seven, eight times, and there comes a point when you have to start wondering about how much of it is really involuntary.
Well, the song kind of grows on you.
screw you all, i remember when this song was playing on our screens for real. it was neither good nor bad in the 80s... just like now, really.
yeah, easy there, Ogvor, or we'll beat you with our canes! i (like mr. astley) was a bit befuddled by this whole thing at first, but now i find it hilarious. i'm glad he's not glomming onto some sort of remix fame over it. btw, rick: looking good!
I like how this became the theme song for scientology protests.
ba$tard$! RR arg!
true story: the link to the youtube video about the protestors "waving their signs to the music" shows me and my friend commy rickrolling scientology.
Ergo, rick astley saw me and commy rickroll scilon.... and thought it was humerous. Rick Astley loves me
I sincerely hope the next thing to come along isn't some version of goatseroll. (Personally, I've got my fingers cross for the return of duckroll.)
Here is a great pie graph of the song --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/cgt2099/2351668146/sizes/o/
I came across this while doing research for Make Something Happen's article on best flash mobs. Before reading it, I was wondering what the hell Astley thinks of this whole thing. I still don't think I've got it straight.