Never gonna give you up, a thread dedicated to just the one song

It has been, at time of writing, twelve thousand, four hundred and thirty two days since Rick Astley released the legendary single, Never Gonna Give You Up, a very good song that took on a second life with the advent of the rickroll. Future readers who haven’t yet been rickrolled: it’s when a link promises one thing, for example, a duck documentary, but is actually just the Never Gonna Give You Up music video.

Anyway, I decided to create a thread for this, cataloguing the classic recording, performances, and covers.

to start the thread off, here’s an absolutely inspired AI remix that chops up bits of Smash Mouth’s performances to perform variations of Never Gonna Give You Up.

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You do not truly understand it until you have heard it in the original Klingon:

:vulcan_salute: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I’ve been enjoying watching young folks discover Rick. The general consensus seems to be “I thought this was supposed to be bad?”.

And the cross-cultural stuff is fun as well:

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Astley takes it all with good humour.

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