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See media help. Rickrolling or a Rickroll is an Internet meme involving the unexpected appearance of the music video to the 1987 hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up", performed by English singer Rick Astley. The aforementioned video has over 1.5 billion views on YouTube.
Oct 5, 2023 · Published on October 5, 2023. Renowned for his deep baritone vocals and the surprising amount of soul coming from a red-haired singer with decidedly awkward dance moves, UK singer Rick Astley’s journey from pop star to online prank subject to post-ironic success story is the stuff of legend.
An article on Monday about a popular Internet video prank known as rickrolling referred incorrectly to its use during a March 8 women’s basketball game at Eastern Washington University, based...
Nov 13, 2022 · Inspired by the meme Duckroll and having been enveloped in internet culture, young military airman Sean Cotter knew he wanted to make his mark on the internet. One day, he was casually looking up a list of songs that were popular in the year he was born, 1987, and found Astley’s hit single.
Nov 19, 2016 · By Bryan Lufkin. November 19, 2016. Dave Hogan/Getty Images. You know Rick Astley as the English '80s pop icon with the booming voice, the YouTube demigod with 230 million YouTube views, the...
Oct 11, 2016 · Rickrolling doesn’t seem to have hurt Astley’s career. In fact, it’s only helped. After scoring huge hits with “Never Gonna Give You Up” and 1988’s “Together Forever” — and selling more than 40...
Apr 6, 2020 · You know "Never Gonna Give You Up": He is forever tied to this late 1980s synth-driven pop song that became a huge YouTube prank joke ("Rickrolling") where this particular song suddenly interrupts ...
