Okay, so granted, I'm not really that up on pop culture. In fact, I tend to maintain a fairly blissful ignorance of a lot of pop culture, which I'd like to think is why it took me so long to catch onto this whole Rickrolling thing.
But every so often, pop culture comes up with something really awesome that I just have to appreciate, whenever I do manage to clue in. Such as the aforementioned rickrolls.
Is it bad that the first time a friend rickrolled me, I just laughed my ass off at the video without realizing I was being enmeshed in a cultural phenomenon? How self-aware do I have to be about this? Hopefully not very... At the time, the telltale word was never mentioned. Then, a few weeks later, I came across the term rickrolled twice in two days. So of course I googled it, read the Wikipedia article, and laughed my ass off even more.
Incidentally, one of the times I came across the term, it was through this link my friend sent me. As a Muppets freak, I pretty much adore this, but I have to admit it's not really worth watching through the whole thing. The Muppets pretty much repeat the same 30 seconds of action for the whole song. And normally, they're such good dancers! (You think I'm joking.)
Yesterday, I was feeling some Monday morning malaise, so I went to your eternal resource and mine, Youtube, to hunt up a good rickroll. Incidentally, I'm not convinced any website in the world can beat Youtube in terms of instant gratification, which is why I try to stay away from it. I don't need to add another to the long list of websites to which I'm compulsively addicted.
Anyway, as a Simpsons freak (and yes, I am a freak in many ways), I have to say this is possibly the most awesome rickroll ever. The look on Burns's face is just priceless.
In fact, the only problem with rickrolling - and I say this as if it were not the massive, maddening problem that it really is - is that as soon as you rickroll someone, the song leeches into your brain and doesn't let go for far too long. One has to wonder if the incidence of Rick Astley-related deaths is going to rise dramatically in corporate workplace settings. "You bitch, that's the second time this week you've fucking rickrolled me!!! I just got that song out of my fucking head!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!" *Gruesome attack with three-hole punch*
But, you know, hopefully not.
... Secretly, I was hoping that this post would help get the song out of my head from when I rickrolled my friends yesterday with the Simpsons thing. But no dice. I refuse to turn to REM's 'It's the End of the World Etc', which is equally dangerous and brain-leeching. I keep trying for the Dead's 'Going Down the Road Feeling Bad' or Dylan's version of 'Brokedown Engine'. Why is it so much harder to get non-annoying songs stuck in one's head?
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