Rick Astley Understands The "Irony" Behind The "Rickroll"

[Rich B 5,000+ posts]

posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Has-been-turned-Internet-icon Rick Astley finally comments on the "Rickrolling" phenomenon in today's LA Times. The "Rickroll" is an online fakeout in which bloggers present a link to something salacious - like a Lindsay Lohan *** tape - which instead re-directs to the "Never Gonna Give You Up" video on YouTube, bouffant, big sunglasses, and all. "If this had happened around some kind of rock song, with a lyric that really meant something - a Bruce Springsteen, "God bless America" ... or an anti-something kind of song, I could kind of understand that," Astley said. "But for something as, and I don't mean to belittle it, because I still think it's a great pop song, but it's a pop song; do you know what I mean? It doesn't have any kind of weight behind it, as such. But maybe that's the irony of it."

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[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Fuck you Rick Astley!

 

[UberAudio 10+ year member]

Fuck you Rick Astley!

LOL

it's all his fault! GET HIM!

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

wonder if he ever expected to have so many haters

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

the article shouldve had a link in it to internetisseriousbusiness, so people who clicked something in the article would get rick rolled

 

[Brassler07 10+ year member]

Fuck you Rick Astley!

haha i literally laughed out loud in class.

 

[casper97ta 10+ year member]

I wonder he ever got Rickrolled??

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

i bet he got rickrolled a ton

 

[SocMunky 10+ year member]

What a queer. He probably can't even find the Internet.

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[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

wow rick is lookn rough these days

I bet he did get quite a bit of poon with that video though

 

[Slammed 5,000+ posts]

Jealous?
You can admit it. I know you are. What man wouldn't be?

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