Rick Astley Comments On RickRolls
When I first started covering the Anonymous vs. Scientology movement I found myself a victim of the RickRoll. Not sure what this is? Yes, well neither was I. A Rickroll is a very insidery joke amongst internet savvy folks where they lure you with a link and instead of finding your intended pr0n or pictures of cute kittens, you get a YouTube video of 80's pop phenom Rick Astley performing his huge hit "Never Gonna Give You Up."
Neat huh? Well, to those in Anonymous this isn't so much a prank as it is a shout out to a relatively well-crafted, jaunty little number which delights the senses and hearkens back to a time when life and music were much simpler. It really is a compliment to Rick Astley and not at all intended to negate his talent. It's also quite hilarious, even when you've fallen for it a once or twice, a handful, SEVERAL times. What? I'm gullible like that.
So, in light of this new resurgence in Rick's popularity, the LA Times, (writer David Sarno) did a feature on the man behind the lightweight, but likable pop ditty, and asked him what he thinks of the whole internet-driven appreciation.
“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.â€Astley would never put the song down, mind you. It’s just that, as he says, “If I was a young kid now looking at that song, I’d have to say I’d think it was pretty naff, really.â€
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