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 sex 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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Rick Astley Understands The “Irony” Behind The “Rickroll”