Most of my friends and colleagues and people I know say have you seen this one, have you seen this one, I've seen them all, I have seen them all. He said: "I wouldn't say I've been accidentally Rickrolled, but I've certainly been Rickrolled. His video recreating the song, complete with dance moves, prompted numerous fans to ask if they've just been Rickrolled by the man himself in the comment section.Īstley himself isn't immune to the viral prank, but admits he's pretty good at spotting a dodgy link. He joked: "I'm not going to name a name here because I don't want to, but I was speaking to a 27-year-old artist who's out quite a few hits recently and they said to me they felt they were too old for the TikTok generation, I was just like get my coat and hat and I'll just leave right now." TikTok has brought Astley and his music to a new generation who may have never been acquainted with his back catalog if it wasn't for Rickrolling. I'd like some of it back, but there you go." "And she gave it all to a friend of a friend of a friend who sings on cruise ships, so there's a guy singing on a cruise ship somewhere. Sometimes I can see the fun side of it, when I see somebody at one of the gigs wherever in the world that we play, somebody comes in that raincoat it's funny, I get it, it's like fancy dress almost you know."Īnd when asked if he kept, and wears, anything else from the '80s, Astley replied "that would be telling."īut he revealed there's a cruise ship singer who arguably has the best outfits in the business, saying: "My mum had a wardrobe in her house that had outfits of mine from back in the day, and I'm talking about Jean Paul Gaultier suits, this is like, primo amazing stuff. It's a different story with the trench coat, as he said: "So the raincoat thing, I have to be coerced into that. The trousers have to be assisted, the jacket I can still get into, but the trousers, not a chance, they have to be kind of like, there's safety pins and things going on there." When asked if it's one of his original outfits from that era, Astley replied: "Oh yeah baby, oh yeah. I just kind of felt it's somewhere to have a bit of fun." In a lilac suit by the way, from 1980-whatever, which I still own. Welcome to RickTok! #BackToTheMusic #GetYourCoat #RickTok ♬ Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astleyĭubbed RickTok, he said: "One of the ones I did also was I jet washed my wheelie bins to Dua Lipa, who wouldn't want to do that. He's embraced the Rickrolling sensation, and even recreated the iconic song for his second-ever TikTok clip, which gained 23 million views, after joining the social media site in not giving you up. "And I don't think they would have had me sing that song, just to sing the song, it was about Rickrolling the TV show, the float I was on and all the rest of it." "I remember calling a bunch of friends in America and saying I've been invited to go up and do this thing in the parade, on one of the floats and everything, and everybody without exception just screamed back down the phone you got to do this, you've got to do this. In 2008, the year after Rickrolling took off, Astley was invited to the traditional Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade where he pranked bystanders and millions more watching at home.Īstley, from the U.K., remembers it well, saying: "I got to Rickroll the Macy's Day Parade in New York which we've all seen in a bunch of different movies "And there's been some really good fun things come out of it as well, I've done things with people I never would have got the chance to do without Rickrolling, so I can't have anything negative to say about it." But it has been pretty amazing, I can't really grumble about it because it's brought that song to a few different generations now, so it's been pretty amazing. "So for that song to have its own little place on the internet, and the Rickrolling thing, is pretty amazing and a bit weird at times if I'm honest. Speaking to Newsweek, he said: "It's kind of strange obviously, I mean let's just put this in perspective, 'Never Gonna Give You Up,' my first single, that song, the internet didn't even exist, the internet was somebody's dream. Reddit's Wildest 2021 Posts-From Being Inside a Whale to Surviving a Heist.YouTube Reveals Top 10 Trending Videos of the Year.TikTok Reveals the Top Ten Videos and Trends of 2021 in the U.S.
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