Rick Astley on the Rickroll Phenomenon

Rick Astley, himself, chimes in on rickrolling and all those things he said he was never gonna do. (Yes, he’s alive.)

“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.”

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