Rick Astley: Rickrolling Mad Skillz, He Has Dem
I know Dawn did a great story on this a few days ago, but I have to add my two cents…it seems that Rick Astley has become such an internet phenomenon, Sony is going to re-release his greatest hits:
The video for his 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up has received more than 15million hits after that internet prank.
Web users were tricked into thinking they were visiting footage of celebs up to no good — but were in fact directed to an Astley promo.
Now Rick, left, is set to coin it thanks to the scam - dubbed “Rickrolling” — revived interest in him.
Record label Sony are re-pressing his greatest hits collection in a bid to get it on shop shelves again by the end of the month. Rick Astley: The Ultimate Collection is due out on April 28.
It’s currently out of print — a situation that’s nothing short of mystifying.
I just want to say that I’ve always loved Rick Astley. I’ll be in line for mine. Who wouldn’t dig that smoove baritone? Like buttah.
For those of you who haven’t rickrolled, basically it’s like this…someone sends you a link (or posts a link) to something like “CELEBS GONE WILD, U GOTTA SEE DIS!!!!!!11!!” When you click the link, instead of nakie people, you get this.
But you know he’s gotta love rickrolling…after all, it’s boosted his career and undoubtedly done great things for his bank account! Besides, it gives all us who grew up in the 1980’s something to reminisce about. Those acid-washed pants, the Wayfarer sunglasses (I still wear mine), those faux-pompadour hairdon’ts….what’s not to like?
I know it’s not technically a rickroll, but…
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I just downloaded Never Gonna Give You Up as my ringtone…now I can rickroll on the go!
Comment by k — April 2, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
I always thought that if only they had left off a few layers of overproduction on that song, more people would have realized that it was actually a pretty good piece of blue-eyed soul….
Comment by AF — April 2, 2008 @ 7:14 pm
Well apparently, Rick Astley isn’t the only former singer celeb being rolled. MC Hammer has now fallen victim to the craze, as people are now getting “HammerRolled”.
A website located at http://HammerRolled.com explains this version of the gold ‘ole Rick Roll.
Comment by Speedy — April 3, 2008 @ 1:05 am
woooooah…cant touch dis
Looks like a bit of a front for “Oh, by the way, click here to visit my buddy’s site and save” to me.
Comment by k — April 3, 2008 @ 1:11 am