• Lydia_K@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      I have never interpreted this as making fun of Rick Astley, just a stupid joke to trick people into watching something. I totally agree, he is very talented.

      The meme has been a huge benefit to him as well, his popularity skyrocketed with a generation that wasn’t around when he was first popular and led to tons of listens and sales of his music, heck they even had him play at the Macy’s day parade!

      As I recall, I read an interview with him, and he didn’t quite understand the meme, but he was thrilled it had blown up his popularity again and introduced so many new people to his music.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        I guess we have different interpretations. It’s always seemed like it was “tricked you into listening to that awful song!” to me. But maybe I’m the outlier?

        • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Maybe it was originally but I kind of enjoy being rickrolled. I get to listen to a cool song.

        • Lydia_K@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Even if that was the original intention, it turned out to be a great benefit to him personally, so if that’s what it was supposed to be, then I guess the jokes on them 😀