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"Rick Astley has revealed he thinks the &amp;quot;Rickrolling&amp;quot; internet craze is &amp;quot;brilliant&amp;quot;. The video for the &amp;#039;80s popstar&amp;#039;s hit &amp;#039;Never Gonna Give You Up&amp;#039; has registered more than 13 million YouTube views thanks to websites posting a link to the track disguised as something else. One website ran the headline &amp;quot;Whitney Smoking Crack... Caught On Tape!!!!&amp;quot;, which redirected readers to Astley&amp;#039;s 1987 hit. A web comic managed to Rickroll readers by putting the piano score for the song into one of its strips. In an interview with the LA Times, Astley said he didn&amp;#039;t take any offence at the prank: &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it. But that&amp;#039;s what&amp;#039;s brilliant about the internet.&amp;quot; Astley described his number one hit as a &amp;quot;great pop song&amp;quot; but admitted he would see it as &amp;quot;naff&amp;quot; if he was younger. &amp;quot;It doesn&amp;#039;t have any kind of weight behind it, as such. But maybe that&amp;#039;s the irony of it. If I was a young kid now looking at that song, I&amp;#039;d have to say I&amp;#039;d think it was pretty naff, really.&amp;quot; Astley added: &amp;quot;I just think it\u00E2\u20AC\u2122s bizarre and funny. My main consideration is that my daughter doesn\u00E2\u20AC\u2122t get embarrassed about it.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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