Once, he was never gonna give you up or let you down. Now, Rick Astley just wants to make you laugh. But how does he feel being the butt of the joke? ‘Flattered,’ he says.
Rick: “That's kind of spooky that one. 'Scientology' always makes me think of that movie V where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self. I know that I'll probably be off Tom Cruise's…
Hip hop has never had much time for soul music from the early sixties. If you looked in the crates of a hip hop producer, youd think that R&B started in 1966. With a few notable exceptions, Papas Got a Brand New Bag? springs to mind, no classic hip hop breaks came from the first half of the decade.
Slick Rick is an exception, but then he almost always is. “Mona Lisa” interpolates a snippet of Dionne Warwick’s 1964 number “Walk on By.” It’s the tell-off that ends the song, the…
Imagine if millions of people had seen you naked before you were old enough to say “embarrassing.” That’s the story of Spencer Elden, who you may know as the little baby floating towards a dollar bill on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album, Nevermind.
“[He] calls us up and was like, 'Hey Rick, wanna make 200 bucks and throw your kid in the drink?,'” Rick recounts. “I was like, 'What's up?' And he's like, 'Well, I'm shooting kids all this week, why…
YouTube is RickRolling its own users on April 1. All of the featured videos for YouTube UK and YouTube Australia actually link to the Rick Astley video. Well see if YouTube.com does the same at midnight EST tonight, too.
I like how they don’t link to the original RickRoll video, but to a newly created one with the username ‘YTRickRollsYou’. Looks like they created this user about a week ago, with appropriate header image:…
