Rickrolling II
In the very beginning, it was amusing. Like back in the day. For me, it quickly staled.
When it gets to the point where you’re on your lunch break at school and the person sitting across from you starts making a spectacle of himself by singing it…just a bit extreme, don’t you think? Especially since a good deal of the table joined in upon the chorus.
I mean, granted, we all know how super-cool Rick Astley is…but come, kids. It’s old.
Unless you can introduce an amusing element–even if only vaguely–to it, just stop.
For example, my English teacher perpetually omits the final L sound in words such as, “skill,” or, “rule.” As I’m sure we’re all familiar with the tune, here, this would be amusing:
“We’re no strangers to love
You know the rues
And so I do…”
Rues. She would sound ridiculous if she said that. So, I, of course, plotted to get her to say or sing it. I had someone call her room–and she never picks up the phone, she just leaves it on the speaker…thing. So they quietly sing those three lines. She asks them to repeat for she could not hear. They do. Again. They do. Then they hang up. I and a few cohorts feign excitement and demand to know what the mysterious caller had to say. She, true to form, repeats it just like I planned, even including tune.
“Hey, isn’t that some song from the eighties…?” she asks.
–glorious.
:x
I’m a troll.
