The 1980s still sounds good today...

I was watching the news yesterday morning and one bit was featuring a thing that's been sweeping the internet called "Rickroll". You might ask, "what does that mean"? Well, the average person who surfs the internet clicks onto a link for whatever reason and out of the blue, the Rick Astley video "Never Gonna Give You Up" starts playing. Simple as that...you've been "Rickrolled". News organizations here in the U.S. seem to be slow as they only recently have picked up the story on this strange phenomenon; the practice of "Rickrolling" has been going on for over a year and a half!

Why would people do this? Call it what you will, but the song itself is an instant 80s classic. There's a reason why the song gets stuck in your head...it's a good song! But idiots out there keep labeling it as "80s cheese", portraying it as one of those songs you'd rather forget. What a bunch of garbage. In my opinion, a good song is a good song, no matter what era it came from. It's a lot better than the "shoot em up" gangsta rap, much better than the angry "I wanna kill myself" rock of the 90s, and other crap that has been shoved down the mainstream's consciousness over the past 18 years.

Instead of "Rickrolling" you, I thought it would be better to showcase a good song that can hold up after 20 years, so here's a video of Rick Astley performing "Never Gonna Give You Up" on British television back in 2005. It pretty much boils down to the old adage...take the song, strip it down to its basics all the way down to its organic core and in the end, you'll still have a great song. Hope you enjoy!