Rick himself is amazed at how well this song is still received by people ,a nd that it became a Joke/Prank Meme Even now he still sings and do stuff, and his voice just got even smoother and Deeper with age, he is a bonified artist. He's also somehow friend with The Foo Figthers, and even was invited as a guest a couple of times in their shows to sing along with them. I know this song by heart, cause it was one of my mom's favorite, so each night when i was gone to sleep, i would hear my mom listening either to this, or to Micheal jackson's Bad or Dangerous albums on Tapes in her old Sound Boom hifi And i would go to sleep each night to the sound of MJ or Rick.
Rick rolled actually became a thing when people started sending a link in an email as a prank. It was supposed to annoy the recipient. Actually resurrected his career! Check out his stuff with the foo fighters!
@@hmpz36911 I'm still young and I wasn't around back in Nirvana time but I happen to think they grew is the most talented out of that band. He writes and sings and he plays more than one instrument. I feel like Courtney loves the one that rode his cocktails just based on documentaries I've seen. I like Dave but again I don't know every little detail and I only know what I've learned from asking people or old documentaries and things like that. I do know Courtney Love and Dave Grove aren't great friends LOL that's to be nice but I like the Foo fighters a lot more than Nirvana. I like guns n' roses better than both. I'm a hip hop head but over this last year of this virus, with lockdown and all, I have learned so much about older rock music from the '80s and '90s. Guns n' roses was so freaking incredible to me. I know the Nirvana and guns n' roses had some kind of silly spat. I digress but give me a break here I'm drinking an energy drink. Peace to you and I'm sorry about the way I feel. I think Dave grohl is too cool but once again I don't know everything he did 30 years ago or however long that was
Rick was 21 when this came out in 1987. It was his first song, he had 8 top ten hits in the next 5 years. He became disenchanted with the music business and retired at 27. He has started gigging again and has released several albums in the past 5 years. His first new one, 50, premiered in the UK at number one. I prefer his newer songs, he looks more like his voice. Some of the new ones are - Walk Like a Panther - Everyone of Us - This Old House - Beautiful Life. My favorite is “Try” th-cam.com/video/0Aud6ROCkKI/w-d-xo.html
I don't dislike the song, but I was there when it was released, so I've heard it 70 billion times, especially after the whole Rick roll thing got Rick rolling. lol
Very proud of you guys for reacting to the video - and not just the lyrics. I hope you continue the trend ;). Rick actually has a lot of really good songs out there. My personal favourite is You Move Me. It's been used in a few different movie trailer in the 80's. It's a GREAT song.
I love this song. It is one of my "Happy" songs. Just when in a bad mood play stuff that makes me smile and sing along. Karma Chameleon by Culture Club is another of mine. Ya'll should check out when Rick Astley joined The Foo Fighters on stage and did this song rock style!!!!
I don't think anyone realized how awesome this was when it came out. It wasn't till decades later when I started to really appreciate it. Those back up dancers make me really miss the 90s. Such an amazing time
There is a video on YT with the Foo Fighters inviting Rick on stage to play this song, its pretty epic, the crowd is singing at the top of their lungs.
I don't see it as a joke! You can rickroll me anytime! I was always in love with that girl with the shorter blond hair! She's perfect! Her name is Kristen Seifer-Decarlo not that I'm stalking much lol
The enduring optimism of this makes it timeless. It has a great beat and such a positive vibe. Never would have thought that this song would be popular now at the time it came out but I get it now.
My favourite rickroll is the macy's thanksgiving parade. Rickrolling was one of the very first memes. You gotta understand, nothing had previews yet, so you didn't *actually* know what someone sent you until after you click it. It's like how prank calling doesn't work anymore since everyone has caller ID. Like, eventually people started embedding it into stuff like you said, but that's how it started. Rickrolling actually did a lot for internet security, by making people be more cautious clicking on links, but it did so with a song so good you were never really mad to hear it. How many songs can honestly say the improved humanity? 😆
RICK-ROLLING was not just used as a substitue for other songs. People would RICK-ROLL others in all kinds of devious ways. i.e. Sometimes someone would be doing like a presentation at work or school using video playback then partway through BAM. Suddenly not a presentation on business costs or a book report, but MFing Rick Astley. Rick-Rolls were embeded in digital pics, all kinds of stuff. Ya'll should just check out vids of people actually getting Rick-Rolled.
The most epic one I've seen was when members of the Oregon State legislature (both Democrats and Republicans) spent a year inserting lyrics into their floor speeches, then edited them all together at the end.
Rick Astley himself was being interviewed for radio channel P3 here in Denmark, and he legit went with the host and rickrolled the live broadcast of channel P1 just down the hall, before offering them cake in somewhat broken Danish. (Astley's wife is Danish and his daughter attended university in Copenhagen.)
@@mulrich Yeah Rick has certainly embraced the Meme and cultral impact of his REALLY GOOD SONG becoming both famous and infamous. Such a great but surprising voice.
I love Lex's reaction to this song!!! So excellent. Y'all are so great together. Such a pleasure to watch. I still love this song after all these years.
Haven't been Rickrolled in a while - and I ain't mad atcha. Edit: OK guys... being rickrolled is when you receive an email that says "check out these cute puppies!!" or something like that and provides a link. You click on the link and instead of puppies, you're watching Rick Astley declare his not giving upness. You wouldn't be able to stop the video. Many times you'd have to turn off your computer. It was funny the first 80 times, but after that... it got a bit old. Certainly didn't hurt his career any, tho, so well done.
The thing about gettin Rick Rolled way back in the day is that when this tune came on the radio just about everyone assumed that soulful crooning was coming from a suave sexy mature blackman ... not a Howdy Doody lookin white twerp, LOL! Good on R.A. for subverting everyone's expectations with his bad ass voice having self.
Haha at Howdy Doody white twerp. I wrote the same kind of explanation, but w/o that kind of flair. And the fact that she hasn't even gotten Rick Rolled makes you feel OOOOOLLD as F. Good God, how young are kids these days? Love AWIL too.
LOL Too true. First time I heard the song on the radio, I pictured some dude looking like Ruben Studdard singing it. Then when I saw the video I didn't believe it at first. I was like, "No way. This is some Milli Vanilli bullshit. THIS dude isn't singing this." LOL
I being from the UK and seeing you guys react to this just makes me have so much admiration for you both and when your feeling down lex has this rare purity of infectious humour that brings a smile to my face 🙏🏼 Brad and lex for me is the number 1 reaction channel for me 🙌🏼 Much love ❤️
VERY indicative of the late 80's pop scene, courtesy of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, who created a certain sound from their, 'factory', that became synonymous of what was described as manufactured pop music. Which wasn't anything new, but you could tell a SAW song a mile off, as they all basically sounded the same. Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan, (who were successful Australian soap actors at the time), also had some chart success thanks to them.
This video is great. First off: no one expects that voice to come from THAT guy. Second: Rick looks so nerdy and white but that ain't stopping him from gettin' down with his bad self!
This song was a worldwide number-one hit, initially in the United Kingdom in 1987, where it stayed at the top of the chart for five weeks and was the best-selling single of that year. It eventually topped the charts in 25 countries, including the United States.
"Voice sounds like it's coming from his dad.", awesome comment Brad! In terms of someone just starting to sing this song randomly, I think that could qualify as being Rick Rolled. It would certainly start to get annoying very quickly.
He released a slowed down piano version of this song a couple years ago. You should definitely listen to it. It gives the song a whole other feeling and emotion.
Just to add on top of Brad's explanation: "Rick Rolling" originally was as Brad described, where videos would be uploaded with clickbait titles/thumbnails - some even open with a few seconds of video that seemingly relate to the title/thumb, only to suddenly cut to this music video/song. Thus, anyone having clicked on the video is said to have been "Rick Rolled." However, the term has since grown to include other situations. For example, if you're sitting in a restaurant and this song plays, you have been "Rick Rolled."
We can all pull our face and say too poppy for me, but those of us that see it for what it is will all agree that it is a great 80's record. Good singer, good song....what is there not to like about this track
Unironically a fantastic song; I remember listening to this tape on long family road trips back in the day. It was really weird to watch it become the ultimate meme so many years later. Rick Astley has an incredible voice, check out some of his other stuff if you get a chance.
In this episode of Brad & Lex, Lex's spirit is evidently impenetrable to the infamous early TH-cam prank. Lex is here for this house/R&B pop hit surely by displaying her "disco bop" as Brad expresses he's actually "in the know" showcasing a cool and cocky "side to side sway".
I'm a 58 year old brotha and I'm obsessed with watching you two experience music, most of which, I grow up listening to. My favorite Rock band is RUSH, however. Can you two react to Sonic Youths' " Unmade Bed" studio version or their song "Incinerate" or "Tunic"? OR "Monkeys gone to Heaven" by the Pixies? Never live versions for me though. I absolutely love watching you two and seeing y'all try to figure out meanings to lyrics. You are great thinkers. Thanks!!!
still remember getting rickrolled for the first time back in what must have been about 2006. tried watching what i thought was a trailer for gears of war but was this instead. was so confused. wasnt til like a year later i heard the term rickrolling
I remember the rumour was that Rick sang most of Kylie Minogue's songs...they just sped up the track, if you played a Kylie single at 33 instead of 45 it sounded like Rick.
You gotta be kidding me. What an incredibly stupid rumor ... one that's not worth posting, I might add. Kylie didn't need any help from Rick to sound tremendous, and anyone with an ear would know better.
@@tigerclawthunderdome4823 I am/was calm. I've just never heard that rumor before, it's totally unnecessary and utterly ridiculous, and since it IS a complete lie, there is no reason to bring it up and get people to start spreading all over again ... even if it were out there somewhere. It is insulting to Kylie and should be buried.
@@StevesFunhouse The rumor I heard was the other way around, check this Kylie song slowed down and tell me it does not sound like Rick, also they had the same producers, studio and all so thats how these conspiracies start :D th-cam.com/video/AVDogmtajKI/w-d-xo.html
A Rick Roll was an internet prank. You would send someone a "cool link" and when they clicked the link instead of whatever the cool link was supposed to be you were sent to this video. Hence, you were rolled to Rick Astley. Rick Rolled. LOL
Now that you’ve done a reaction to the original video would love to see you react to Home Free’s cover. They did a great job and had a lot of fun with the video.
I would like to recommend another rick song from just a few years ago….Angels on my side…..as others have mentioned here his voice is in very good condition today, i saw him in concert pre pandemic and he was excellent
The most classic of Memes 😂 I had a computer virus at one point and it would keep playing until you unplug the computer. Rick Rolling is a spontaneous song meme set up 😂
You guys should love this song, well Lex should anyway, even though it's the man singing to woman about his devotion to her! And yes he has a much deeper voice than anyone would ever think!
There was a little more insidious version of being "Rick Rolled" that involved a bogus email or web link that if you clicked it would start the music video and you couldn't stop it until the video ended because the link was "never going to give you up!". It didn't do any damage, but if you did it at work of in class it could be embarrassing because some of them could set your computer's volume to max.
"Rick Roll" was a prank. It was typically a false link - you think you were going to something they told you check out - but the link actually took you to this song. Also clips of this video would show up as edited into other videos where it wasn't expected like at work or school in a presentation. A more family friendly version of the dik pics Tyler Durden would put in the movies at the movie theatre. Yah most people are surprised when they see who is making this voice. Like Darrel Hall, the Righteous Brothers, Bee Gees, Michael McDonald - all of these have a WTH moment when people see what they look like. Much like the reaction we all had when we first heard what Mike Tyson SOUNDED like when he talked.
I have to say that Lex's reaction are just too cute. But the way you were both interacting was great! By the way, there was a mash-up years later, with Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters and this song. It became so popular that in concert they actually had Rick Astley come on stage and do the mash-up with them. Dave Grohl, who used to be with Nirvana, starts playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit", and Rick Astley comes out and sings "Never Gonna Give You up" intertwined with what Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters are playing. Its awesome! (Rick also does some pretty cool mic flips as he's singing ... totally cool and confident!) Here's the link if you're interested: th-cam.com/video/IdkCEioCp24/w-d-xo.html
Fun fact: Rick Astley was the real singer on several other artistes' records including a popular 80's female singer via the magic of studio engineering
I never really understood why tricking someone to watch this was a prank. Talk about a wholesome prank. Like showing up at someone's house and give them a delicious cake and calling it a prank. That's just a happy surprise. This song slaps and always did! 😊👍
In-person Rick Rolling would be even more effective, cause that shit would get old *real* fast 😄 Rick Roll is *any* way you can troll someone with the song. Answer the phone: Rick Roll; Sittin on the terlet: Rick Roll; In the middle of gettin busy: Rick Roll... The possibilities are only limited by your creativity. Happy rollin 🤙
A "Rickroll" is when someone sends you a link in an email, social media post, etc. usually saying to check out this cool X vid (X being anything other than a Rick Astley video, like on gardening or a truck rally or something) and then when someone clicks the link, BOOM. This was from the very beginnings of TH-cam and boy oh boy did it get a lot of people lol.
I would love if you guys reacted to Love Is the Drug by Roxy Music. I first heard this on a jukebox and had to see what it was. It could be a one hit wonder but I'm not sure. I thought of Lex jamming to this, like I was, doing the dishes. 😂 It was on a Spotify playlist I was listening to. It's from 1975.
He's still got a great voice, all these years later. He's a genuinely good guy also. Nice reaction!!
Ya he looks kinda like a wuss but then he starts singing and has this booming deep voice!
Everyone low key loves this song! Stop lying to yourselves people 😁
I love my metal, heavier the better...but even I start 80's dancing when Rick comes on! It's totally infectious.
Nah, there is nothing low key about it, everyone likes this song
I'm a Black Sabbath fan and i love this song I do the "Carlton" to it -lol🎸🎸🕺🕺
Absolutely true!!!
I love Rock, but Rick can made me dance ^^
Rick had a handful of hits and is written off as a teen idol. I think "Cry For Help" is really good, mature and shows off his strong voice best.
Rick himself is amazed at how well this song is still received by people ,a nd that it became a Joke/Prank Meme
Even now he still sings and do stuff, and his voice just got even smoother and Deeper with age, he is a bonified artist.
He's also somehow friend with The Foo Figthers, and even was invited as a guest a couple of times in their shows to sing along with them.
I know this song by heart, cause it was one of my mom's favorite, so each night when i was gone to sleep, i would hear my mom listening either to this, or to Micheal jackson's Bad or Dangerous albums on Tapes in her old Sound Boom hifi
And i would go to sleep each night to the sound of MJ or Rick.
His kid had to explain to him what being "Rick-rolled" was...
Thanks for sharing this!
Also any rendition of this featuring Rick is most certainly worth the watch!
@@ffjsb is there a video of this? That would be AMAZING to watch!
There’s a video of him playing Everlong by Foo Fighters on TH-cam, just him and his guitar. He’s actually a good player and it’s a good version of it.
A timeless classic and Rick is a cool ass dude.
Rick rolled actually became a thing when people started sending a link in an email as a prank. It was supposed to annoy the recipient. Actually resurrected his career! Check out his stuff with the foo fighters!
Leave it to Dave Grohl to ride even Rick's coattails. This guy has no shame.
I still Rick roll people. No one is ever annoyed. But the confusion face is a good second place
Every now and then me and my friend still rick roll eachother 😂
Can you please tell me what a Rick roll is? I've never heard it in my life but I like to learn.
@@hmpz36911 I'm still young and I wasn't around back in Nirvana time but I happen to think they grew is the most talented out of that band. He writes and sings and he plays more than one instrument. I feel like Courtney loves the one that rode his cocktails just based on documentaries I've seen. I like Dave but again I don't know every little detail and I only know what I've learned from asking people or old documentaries and things like that. I do know Courtney Love and Dave Grove aren't great friends LOL that's to be nice but I like the Foo fighters a lot more than Nirvana. I like guns n' roses better than both. I'm a hip hop head but over this last year of this virus, with lockdown and all, I have learned so much about older rock music from the '80s and '90s. Guns n' roses was so freaking incredible to me. I know the Nirvana and guns n' roses had some kind of silly spat. I digress but give me a break here I'm drinking an energy drink. Peace to you and I'm sorry about the way I feel. I think Dave grohl is too cool but once again I don't know everything he did 30 years ago or however long that was
Rick was 21 when this came out in 1987. It was his first song, he had 8 top ten hits in the next 5 years. He became disenchanted with the music business and retired at 27.
He has started gigging again and has released several albums in the past 5 years. His first new one, 50, premiered in the UK at number one. I prefer his newer songs, he looks more like his voice.
Some of the new ones are
- Walk Like a Panther - Everyone of Us - This Old House - Beautiful Life.
My favorite is “Try” th-cam.com/video/0Aud6ROCkKI/w-d-xo.html
even still today he sould just like he did like in this video... he still tours europe...
@@nonenone7250 He is touring the US with the New Kids On The Blocks Mixed tape tour that starts in May.
Weirdly: he performed at a Macy's parade a few years back and has become friends with Dave Grohl.
@@MrSchism Such a strange pairing. I’ve watched several interviews of each of them talking about it. There is a ton of respect there.
I remember his next album, the masters burned up in a fire at the studio. He had to rerecord the entire album.
We all just got Rick rolled. And we did it to ourselves. lol
😂😂
Don't blame me. I voted for the other guy!
It’s only a bad thing if you dislike the song.
I don't dislike the song, but I was there when it was released, so I've heard it 70 billion times, especially after the whole Rick roll thing got Rick rolling. lol
I didn't feel like I got legitimately rickrolled until the end of the song and it started playing again haha
Very proud of you guys for reacting to the video - and not just the lyrics. I hope you continue the trend ;). Rick actually has a lot of really good songs out there. My personal favourite is You Move Me. It's been used in a few different movie trailer in the 80's. It's a GREAT song.
Yes, So often you lose crap from the lyric vids that they frequently do.
The sound quality is always so bad on the lyric videos.
I love this song. It is one of my "Happy" songs. Just when in a bad mood play stuff that makes me smile and sing along. Karma Chameleon by Culture Club is another of mine. Ya'll should check out when Rick Astley joined The Foo Fighters on stage and did this song rock style!!!!
I don't think anyone realized how awesome this was when it came out. It wasn't till decades later when I started to really appreciate it. Those back up dancers make me really miss the 90s. Such an amazing time
I loved this when I was young. Just wonderfully melodic.
90s? This was 87 wasn't it?
This was 80's lmao
There is a video on YT with the Foo Fighters inviting Rick on stage to play this song, its pretty epic, the crowd is singing at the top of their lungs.
Is that the one where he's kind of yelling at the beginning because he's nervous and Grohl is like why are yelling?
@@Emilaria yea, im pretty sure it was because the crowd was going ape shit
A lot of people see this song as a joke now, but I've always thought it was a good song.
It was a huge hit when it came out and was #1 around March '88.
I don't see it as a joke! You can rickroll me anytime! I was always in love with that girl with the shorter blond hair! She's perfect! Her name is Kristen Seifer-Decarlo not that I'm stalking much lol
That's the power of video, I guess. It made him look goofy.
I love rickrolling people and often do it to this day. I also really like the song. 😁
I think the whole rick roll thing is The Dumb I sing it as loud as I can when it's on the radio
Love this song.Puts you in good mood,I listen to it before I go to work.
The enduring optimism of this makes it timeless. It has a great beat and such a positive vibe. Never would have thought that this song would be popular now at the time it came out but I get it now.
Lex’s idea of walking into a room singing in a deep voice & doing the shoulder move SHOULD be the new version of Rick Rolling!
Look up what Rickrolling is BEFORE you continue doing this ... you are making yourself look pretty damned ignorant.
My favourite rickroll is the macy's thanksgiving parade.
Rickrolling was one of the very first memes. You gotta understand, nothing had previews yet, so you didn't *actually* know what someone sent you until after you click it. It's like how prank calling doesn't work anymore since everyone has caller ID. Like, eventually people started embedding it into stuff like you said, but that's how it started.
Rickrolling actually did a lot for internet security, by making people be more cautious clicking on links, but it did so with a song so good you were never really mad to hear it. How many songs can honestly say the improved humanity? 😆
RICK-ROLLING was not just used as a substitue for other songs. People would RICK-ROLL others in all kinds of devious ways. i.e. Sometimes someone would be doing like a presentation at work or school using video playback then partway through BAM. Suddenly not a presentation on business costs or a book report, but MFing Rick Astley. Rick-Rolls were embeded in digital pics, all kinds of stuff. Ya'll should just check out vids of people actually getting Rick-Rolled.
The most epic one I've seen was when members of the Oregon State legislature (both Democrats and Republicans) spent a year inserting lyrics into their floor speeches, then edited them all together at the end.
@@elbruces never seen that 1, thx im check it out if i can find it
One guy wrote the first part of his university dissertation with the first letter of each line spelling out the lyrics! Epic! Lol
Rick Astley himself was being interviewed for radio channel P3 here in Denmark, and he legit went with the host and rickrolled the live broadcast of channel P1 just down the hall, before offering them cake in somewhat broken Danish.
(Astley's wife is Danish and his daughter attended university in Copenhagen.)
@@mulrich Yeah Rick has certainly embraced the Meme and cultral impact of his REALLY GOOD SONG becoming both famous and infamous. Such a great but surprising voice.
I love Lex's reaction to this song!!! So excellent. Y'all are so great together. Such a pleasure to watch. I still love this song after all these years.
Haven't been Rickrolled in a while - and I ain't mad atcha. Edit: OK guys... being rickrolled is when you receive an email that says "check out these cute puppies!!" or something like that and provides a link. You click on the link and instead of puppies, you're watching Rick Astley declare his not giving upness. You wouldn't be able to stop the video. Many times you'd have to turn off your computer. It was funny the first 80 times, but after that... it got a bit old. Certainly didn't hurt his career any, tho, so well done.
The thing about gettin Rick Rolled way back in the day is that when this tune came on the radio just about everyone assumed that soulful crooning was coming from a suave sexy mature blackman ... not a Howdy Doody lookin white twerp, LOL! Good on R.A. for subverting everyone's expectations with his bad ass voice having self.
Haha at Howdy Doody white twerp. I wrote the same kind of explanation, but w/o that kind of flair. And the fact that she hasn't even gotten Rick Rolled makes you feel OOOOOLLD as F. Good God, how young are kids these days? Love AWIL too.
I’m 43 and never been Rick rolled except the one time my ex brother in law showed me what rick rolling was.
LOL Too true. First time I heard the song on the radio, I pictured some dude looking like Ruben Studdard singing it. Then when I saw the video I didn't believe it at first. I was like, "No way. This is some Milli Vanilli bullshit. THIS dude isn't singing this." LOL
"Bad" part of becoming older (and not so old, around 40s) is that we remember it as a hit from 80s but for young guys it's just a meme material.
1987 I wondered how this got on MTV. 2022 & I'm still amazed this got on MTV.
I being from the UK and seeing you guys react to this just makes me have so much admiration for you both and when your feeling down lex has this rare purity of infectious humour that brings a smile to my face 🙏🏼
Brad and lex for me is the number 1 reaction channel for me 🙌🏼
Much love ❤️
VERY indicative of the late 80's pop scene, courtesy of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, who created a certain sound from their, 'factory', that became synonymous of what was described as manufactured pop music. Which wasn't anything new, but you could tell a SAW song a mile off, as they all basically sounded the same. Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan, (who were successful Australian soap actors at the time), also had some chart success thanks to them.
Lex is so much fun!
This video is great. First off: no one expects that voice to come from THAT guy. Second: Rick looks so nerdy and white but that ain't stopping him from gettin' down with his bad self!
I seen him live a few years ago and he’s phenomenal! He drummed and sang Highway to Hell which was cool.
Lex is in the "KNOW" Sing it girl! Lol 😆 she's all about doin that deep voice. Love y'alls videos!🥰
This song was a worldwide number-one hit, initially in the United Kingdom in 1987, where it stayed at the top of the chart for five weeks and was the best-selling single of that year. It eventually topped the charts in 25 countries, including the United States.
"Voice sounds like it's coming from his dad.", awesome comment Brad! In terms of someone just starting to sing this song randomly, I think that could qualify as being Rick Rolled. It would certainly start to get annoying very quickly.
He released a slowed down piano version of this song a couple years ago. You should definitely listen to it. It gives the song a whole other feeling and emotion.
❤️ his voice
One of the best music videos of all time.
Lex's reaction always so pure. Appreciate you two.
Rick was part of the Romantic movement of the 80's. You should listen too ABC's When Smokey Sings
Yeah ABC and late Roxy Music, Sade, Spandau Ballet, Simply Red, all part of that.
Just to add on top of Brad's explanation: "Rick Rolling" originally was as Brad described, where videos would be uploaded with clickbait titles/thumbnails - some even open with a few seconds of video that seemingly relate to the title/thumb, only to suddenly cut to this music video/song. Thus, anyone having clicked on the video is said to have been "Rick Rolled."
However, the term has since grown to include other situations. For example, if you're sitting in a restaurant and this song plays, you have been "Rick Rolled."
I love getting rick rolled. I liked this song when it was first released.
It's a good song like almost everything from the 80s. Best decade ever!
Lex’s energy is infectious! Just started subscribing, you guys are great, keep up the good work
I'm getting crackhead vibes from her lol
We can all pull our face and say too poppy for me, but those of us that see it for what it is will all agree that it is a great 80's record. Good singer, good song....what is there not to like about this track
Exactly
Unironically a fantastic song; I remember listening to this tape on long family road trips back in the day. It was really weird to watch it become the ultimate meme so many years later. Rick Astley has an incredible voice, check out some of his other stuff if you get a chance.
Ditto. I'm a child of the 80's and really enjoyed his songs. Like, Together Forever (another big hit), She Wants to Dance with Me, etc.
Seriously - I personally never minded being Rick-rolled. Why would I? It's a great song!
No one thought he would sound like he did by his looks but he has amazing voice!
Rick had a lot of hits. It would take a Strong Strong Man and Cry For Help are two of my favorites.
I don’t care what anyone says I will always love this song.
In this episode of Brad & Lex, Lex's spirit is evidently impenetrable to the infamous early TH-cam prank. Lex is here for this house/R&B pop hit surely by displaying her "disco bop" as Brad expresses he's actually "in the know" showcasing a cool and cocky "side to side sway".
Dude...your B&L updates are a real public service and a solid time saver. Thanks for your unbiased and succinct reporting.
On point as usual Smitty! You are one funny mf!😁 Can't wait for the next one!👍🦏❤
Rick Roll her tomorrow... Just be like and we're checking out "enter whatever song" and have it go straight to the chorus of this.
God, I hope Brad sees this.
Imagine having no knowledge of the rickroll meme and being able to genuinely enjoy his singing and the dad dancing
You aren’t the first ones to be thrown off by his voice. A lot of reactors have been stunned by Rick’s voice.
Best thing I've ever seen is when the Foo Fighters Rick Rolled their entire audience! It was AWESOME!
Now you have to react to him performing with Foo Fighters.
LMAO!! Yes, I was astounded the first time I saw him in this video! I couldn't believe that voice came from someone with such a baby face!
I'm a 58 year old brotha and I'm obsessed with watching you two experience music, most of which, I grow up listening to. My favorite Rock band is RUSH, however. Can you two react to Sonic Youths' " Unmade Bed" studio version or their song "Incinerate" or "Tunic"? OR "Monkeys gone to Heaven" by the Pixies? Never live versions for me though. I absolutely love watching you two and seeing y'all try to figure out meanings to lyrics. You are great thinkers. Thanks!!!
Great suggestions! Not many people recommend the Pixies or Sonic Youth on reaction channels(or Rush for that matter). RUSH on!
@@crucialtaunt5717 Thank you.
Brad: You can't rick-roll me.
Lex: Challenge accepted! :)
It's funny how this is a good song and I've always loved it.. it's just those first 2 seconds hit different now. heh
Rick Astley's video of Never Gonna Give You Up went over a billion views recently.
still remember getting rickrolled for the first time back in what must have been about 2006. tried watching what i thought was a trailer for gears of war but was this instead. was so confused. wasnt til like a year later i heard the term rickrolling
I remember the rumour was that Rick sang most of Kylie Minogue's songs...they just sped up the track, if you played a Kylie single at 33 instead of 45 it sounded like Rick.
You gotta be kidding me. What an incredibly stupid rumor ... one that's not worth posting, I might add. Kylie didn't need any help from Rick to sound tremendous, and anyone with an ear would know better.
@@StevesFunhouse Calm down sir
@@tigerclawthunderdome4823 I am/was calm. I've just never heard that rumor before, it's totally unnecessary and utterly ridiculous, and since it IS a complete lie, there is no reason to bring it up and get people to start spreading all over again ... even if it were out there somewhere. It is insulting to Kylie and should be buried.
@@StevesFunhouse The rumor I heard was the other way around, check this Kylie song slowed down and tell me it does not sound like Rick, also they had the same producers, studio and all so thats how these conspiracies start :D th-cam.com/video/AVDogmtajKI/w-d-xo.html
@@Infyra I'll check it out after the game. I'm sure it will be interesting but, you and I both know, neither one needed to fake it.
A Rick Roll was an internet prank. You would send someone a "cool link" and when they clicked the link instead of whatever the cool link was supposed to be you were sent to this video. Hence, you were rolled to Rick Astley. Rick Rolled. LOL
Now that you’ve done a reaction to the original video would love to see you react to Home Free’s cover. They did a great job and had a lot of fun with the video.
Lex's idea for Rickroll is infinitely better than youtube assbaggery.
I would like to recommend another rick song from just a few years ago….Angels on my side…..as others have mentioned here his voice is in very good condition today, i saw him in concert pre pandemic and he was excellent
Rick Rolled themselves at the end! 🤣
Great song choice- superb vocals and cool video. Definitely the real eighties vibe. I thought Lexy was going to jump out of her seat!
This was one of the most iconic Pop/New Wave 1980s songs and videos. Rick Ashley was great here.
LOVE her reaction dude! she is like a little girl!!!! hahaha LOVE IT!
The most classic of Memes 😂
I had a computer virus at one point and it would keep playing until you unplug the computer.
Rick Rolling is a spontaneous song meme set up 😂
You guys should love this song, well Lex should anyway, even though it's the man singing to woman about his devotion to her!
And yes he has a much deeper voice than anyone would ever think!
There was a little more insidious version of being "Rick Rolled" that involved a bogus email or web link that if you clicked it would start the music video and you couldn't stop it until the video ended because the link was "never going to give you up!". It didn't do any damage, but if you did it at work of in class it could be embarrassing because some of them could set your computer's volume to max.
If you dont check out some of his others hits your doing him a disservice ,his voice is magic
Sometimes even you’d get partway through a video and right when it gets to the good part, it becomes this. I have always liked the song
Rick singing Foo Fighters Everlong acoustic is fabulous
Play this song in any stadium of a sports event and everyone will sing along. That’s pretty impressive.
Cry for Help is THE song by Rick Astley. Probably the best he ever did in my opinion... Would love to see SOMEONE do a reaction to it lol
Lex has to be the last person on Earth that hadn't been Rick Rolled!
I was twenty when this song came out. 1987 maybe. We could hear it everywhere. Great time was it!
"Rick Roll" was a prank. It was typically a false link - you think you were going to something they told you check out - but the link actually took you to this song.
Also clips of this video would show up as edited into other videos where it wasn't expected like at work or school in a presentation.
A more family friendly version of the dik pics Tyler Durden would put in the movies at the movie theatre.
Yah most people are surprised when they see who is making this voice. Like Darrel Hall, the Righteous Brothers, Bee Gees, Michael McDonald - all of these have a WTH moment when people see what they look like. Much like the reaction we all had when we first heard what Mike Tyson SOUNDED like when he talked.
I love how Lex genuinely and unironically vibes to this song.
3:30 I love your sweet laugh lex ^^ you are pure good energy and love this music
*People always hating on my man Rick...* I’ve always liked this song.
Lex, getting Rick Rolled is clicking on Brad and Lex reviewing Pink Floyd SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND and it was this song instead :)
I have to say that Lex's reaction are just too cute. But the way you were both interacting was great!
By the way, there was a mash-up years later, with Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters and this song. It became so popular that in concert they actually had Rick Astley come on stage and do the mash-up with them. Dave Grohl, who used to be with Nirvana, starts playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit", and Rick Astley comes out and sings "Never Gonna Give You up" intertwined with what Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters are playing. Its awesome! (Rick also does some pretty cool mic flips as he's singing ... totally cool and confident!) Here's the link if you're interested: th-cam.com/video/IdkCEioCp24/w-d-xo.html
I got Rick Rolled three times by the same video over the course of six months. "Lion and Alligator fight to the death". Got me every time.
I would love to have Lex show up at my door singing Never Gonna Give You Up. I don't know what Brad's talkin' 'bout. This was great fun, you two!
Fun fact: Rick Astley was the real singer on several other artistes' records including a popular 80's female singer via the magic of studio engineering
The best song! It's so fun and it gets you movin'. Love it!
I never really understood why tricking someone to watch this was a prank. Talk about a wholesome prank. Like showing up at someone's house and give them a delicious cake and calling it a prank. That's just a happy surprise. This song slaps and always did! 😊👍
Rick Roll the greatest internet meme of all time. I would just laugh when i would watch a video and this damn video came up instead. LOL
Do it Lex! Bust into the kitchen and Rick Roll Brad 😆
you've been rick rolled!!!
Lex, you are so funny, you made me laught lol. So cool. Great reation guys!
In-person Rick Rolling would be even more effective, cause that shit would get old *real* fast 😄
Rick Roll is *any* way you can troll someone with the song. Answer the phone: Rick Roll; Sittin on the terlet: Rick Roll; In the middle of gettin busy: Rick Roll... The possibilities are only limited by your creativity. Happy rollin 🤙
This video is the pinnacle of white prople dancing🤣🤣
A "Rickroll" is when someone sends you a link in an email, social media post, etc. usually saying to check out this cool X vid (X being anything other than a Rick Astley video, like on gardening or a truck rally or something) and then when someone clicks the link, BOOM.
This was from the very beginnings of TH-cam and boy oh boy did it get a lot of people lol.
I would love if you guys reacted to Love Is the Drug by Roxy Music. I first heard this on a jukebox and had to see what it was. It could be a one hit wonder but I'm not sure. I thought of Lex jamming to this, like I was, doing the dishes. 😂 It was on a Spotify playlist I was listening to. It's from 1975.
Glad Yall enjoyed it, Rick was so entertaining.
Nice song so nice to watch you two. Thx.
Can't stop smiling watching these two!
I would literally pay to get to hang out with Lex. There couldn't be a more FUN person to be around :)
Top man Rick, quality bloke and a legend 👍, being 100% serious, from Torquay ENGLAND 🇬🇧
Best song ever.