Eighties Pop Star Rick Astley's Web Sensation
80s British popstar Rick Astley is experiencing a career resurgence thanks to an internet phenomenon called 'RickRolling', in which internet browsers are duped into clicking a headline that re-directs them to a music video of Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'.
The practice of 'RickRolling' got a boost in the past week after gossip blogger Perez Hilton posted a message on his website under the ficticious heading 'Whitney Smoking Crack... Caught On Tape!!!', with the link leading straight to Astley's video.
'Never Gonna Give You Up' has now become one of the most streamed video's on YouTube, racking up an astonishing 14 million views.
"It's abit spooky innit?" Astley told the LA Time's Web Scout.
“I think it’s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it. But that’s what's brilliant about the internet.
"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. 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 [just] a pop song... It doesn’t have any kind of weight behind it, as such. But maybe that’s the irony of it.”
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