Why rick astley for rick roll

My dad was really, really pissed off a lot of the time. Have you? I genuinely have felt [faith] at gigs. I think a lot of it is to do with age as well. I quite like that and I thought it would be quite funny. Truth to be told, I was not expecting [to have] the Number One album in the U.

It does feel like one chapter starts, one finishes. You know your time here on earth is likely more than halfway done. How do you feel about it? I have no problem with it. It helped introduce you to a new generation. And reminded another generation [about me]. Somebody stole it off me in Northern Ireland. We [played] a radio broadcast outside and it got swamped. There were a couple of policemen, but it all went just a bit mad. Everyone was grabbing hold of me and before I knew it, it just went off of me.

What would the year-old you tell the year-old you? I think there was definitely from my childhood a part of me that was [still] unhappy. You just have to worked that out for yourself. Now you seem so relaxed, happy and confident on stage. I do like doing that. Why not? Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. For assistance, contact your corporate administrator.

Arrow Created with Sketch. And click they did. The internet is a weird place. The problem with this theory is that the song never featured in that game, although a host of classics did. This would have left the song fresh in the memories of would-be trolls. Whatever the source of origin for rick-rolling, the bait-and-switch approach trolling spread like wildfire. People developed clever ways of hiding YouTube links to the song behind images or by using URL-shorteners, meaning was the year of being rick-rolled.

People still get caught. And people are still coming up with new ways to prank people. This is perhaps the only slightly sad part of the rick-roll story.

Thanks to the internet, Astley was catapulted back onto the scene and was suddenly performing more than ever. This is where I start to get some Black Mirror vibes off the whole tale of the rick-roll. Flash forward ten years to and a very happy Rick Astley is sitting on the famous couch with Graham Norton and his guests, including Emma Stone. It just happened to be a song that just happened to feature in a show that just happened to air around the time people happened to make a joke.

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