![]() The song is considered Astley's signature song and it is often played at the end of his live concerts. In 2008, Astley won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Act Ever with the song, as a result of collective voting from thousands of people on the Internet, due to the popular phenomenon of Rickrolling. The music video for the song has become the basis for the "Rickrolling" Internet meme, leading the song to also be referred to as "The Rickroll Song". In 2004, "Never Gonna Give You Up" was voted number 28 in 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs. In 1990, Nick Lowe quoted from the song and called it "ghastly" in the lyrics to "All Men Are Liars", a song on his album Party of One. The song won Best British Single at the 1988 Brit Awards. It eventually topped the charts in 25 countries, including the United States and West Germany. The song was a worldwide number-one hit, initially in the singer's native 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. Never Gonna Give You Up Album art for Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. The song was released as the first single from Astley's debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody (1987). ![]() It was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. In the UK, it peaked at No 73."Never Gonna Give You Up" is a song recorded by British singer and songwriter Rick Astley, released as a single on 27 July 1987. He is known, on social media and in his music, for a fixation on older women last November, he made headlines when he was photographed on the MTV VMAs red carpet kissing Sheri Easterling, the mother of TikTok celebrity Addison Rae, who is 16 years his senior.īetty (Get Money) has been certified gold in the US, Canada and Australia in the months since release, and peaked at No 30 on the Billboard Hot 100. Since then, he has released a handful of platinum- and gold-certified hits, and achieved vast viral notoriety thanks to his TikTok account, which has seven million followers. ![]() Gravy first gained prominence in 2017 with the Soundcloud viral hit Mr Clean. The Guardian has approached representatives for Yung Gravy for comment. In that interview, Gravy claimed that Astley “digs the song” in his lawsuit, Astley says “those statements were all false”. In an interview with Billboard last year, he said that he and Seeley “basically remade the whole song”. ![]() Gravy has openly said that his intention was to make the interpolation in Betty (Get Money) sound as close to the original as possible. Photograph: John Salangsang/REX/Shutterstock Astley’s lawyers claim that Gravy’s song caused “immense damage”, given that Astley is “extremely protective” over his image and likeness. The lawsuit suggests that Gravy “conspired to include a deliberate and nearly indistinguishable imitation of Mr Astley’s voice”, with the intent to “capitalise off of the immense popularity and goodwill” of Astley. ![]() Now, Billboard reports that Astley is suing Gravy, saying that the rapper violated his “right of publicity” by hiring a singer to imitate his voice on the track.Īlthough Gravy’s use of the melody and lyrics of Never Gonna Give You Up was authorised by Astley, his lawsuit claims that he never authorised Gravy and his collaborator, Nick Seeley, to use his “signature voice” on the song. Born Matthew Hauri, the musician – from Rochester, Minnesota – had a viral hit last year with Betty (Get Money), a track that heavily interpolated Rick Astley’s 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up – which itself gained new prominence 20 years after its initial release thanks to rickrolling, a phenomenon in which internet users troll each other by sending covert links to the song’s music video. Is it possible for a rickroll to go too far? Twenty-six-year-old rapper Yung Gravy may be about to find out. ![]()
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