You know, it's the funniest thing. This song has lyrics that are so sugary sweet and horrible for you that it just makes your teeth rot directly out of your head (much like the beloved Charleston Chew). The beats and synths (not to mention the chorus of black women in the background) make this tune a generic recycling of eighties pop that could never stand the test of time in the gauntlet of teenage musical enthusiasts.
That being said: I love Rick Astley. For all the guff that the man gets, he was way ahead of his time in his frame of mind. Back in the 1980's, Rick put out several records that never so much as saw air time on the radio, never mind MTV video circulation. Left and right he had people telling him what to do, how to dress, how to act, and what songs to sing, but to little avail. So what did he do? He dropped his record company, got himself a freelance agent and started writing his own tunes.
Now, as I said, "Never Gonna Give You Up" is not exactly poetry, but if you actually break the instrumentals of the song down, you can find some composition that is quite complex and intriguing beneath all of that synth pop.
So I raise my glass to Mr. Astley and thank him for giving us a fantastic internet meme that we (and the other 18 million Americans who have been Rickrolled thus far) can laugh about for many months to come, until we latch onto the next hilarious icon. But beware... it's surely to have a power level of over....
You know, it's the funniest thing. This song has lyrics that are so sugary sweet and horrible for you that it just makes your teeth rot directly out of your head (much like the beloved Charleston Chew). The beats and synths (not to mention the chorus of black women in the background) make this tune a generic recycling of eighties pop that could never stand the test of time in the gauntlet of teenage musical enthusiasts.
That being said: I love Rick Astley. For all the guff that the man gets, he was way ahead of his time in his frame of mind. Back in the 1980's, Rick put out several records that never so much as saw air time on the radio, never mind MTV video circulation. Left and right he had people telling him what to do, how to dress, how to act, and what songs to sing, but to little avail. So what did he do? He dropped his record company, got himself a freelance agent and started writing his own tunes.
Now, as I said, "Never Gonna Give You Up" is not exactly poetry, but if you actually break the instrumentals of the song down, you can find some composition that is quite complex and intriguing beneath all of that synth pop.
So I raise my glass to Mr. Astley and thank him for giving us a fantastic internet meme that we (and the other 18 million Americans who have been Rickrolled thus far) can laugh about for many months to come, until we latch onto the next hilarious icon. But beware... it's surely to have a power level of over....
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