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[spanky123]

Can someone explain to me why the Rickroll became a thing?

 

Back then it was permissible to be a white, successful performer and apparently teen women thought he was cute.

[Spy Black]

Rickrolling started with **rn, a person would click on what they thought was a hot **rn link, and instead be taken to a vapid rendition of a artistically-sad pop song, as performed by a one-hit-wonder who most true music aficionados despised with a hot passion for his artistically empty performances.

The perpetrator simply thought it was funny, a humorous, online undertaking on the still nascent internet.

 

After starting with **rn, it then became so well known that it was the first widely applied online "prank" used on any subject matter.

It was, in many ways, the very first example of something becoming "viral" on the internet.

 

After a few years, it was so widely known it simply became ubiquitous ... and continues (albeit to a far lesser degree) to be a "thing" today.

Edited by Spy Black, 19 February 2021 - 09:10 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

 

the song is very good.  not surprising maybe.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 March 2021 - 12:42 PM.

[Rob Randall]

I find the modern music that appeals to me all has a retro feel to it and that song has a little Pat Benetar "Love is a Battlefield" feel to it. The drumbeat, synths, it's got 1982 written all over it.

Edited by Rob Randall, 08 March 2021 - 12:50 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

I find the modern music that appeals to me all has a retro feel to it and that song has a little Pat Benetar "Love is a Battlefield" feel to it. The drumbeat, synths, it's got 1982 written all over it.

 

it's not that far off prince that is what i have told people.  with a bit of Cars for synth.

 

Save Your Tears is also great.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 March 2021 - 01:00 PM.

[Nparker]

Before I knew that "Blinding Lights" was by a contemporary singer, I was sure it was an 80s tune that I had somehow missed in my youth.

[Mike K.]

The video definitely has Michael Jackson vibes.

 

And smoking.

 

And that floating effect with wires that was all the rage back then.

[Matt R.]

Just bought tickets to a show at the Commodore for February 8, 2022! I wonder how many of my outstanding shows for this summer and fall will go ahead?

Matt.

[Nparker]

I have purchased tickets to see David Sedaris at the Royal Theatre on November 6, 2021. Fingers-crossed this takes place as scheduled. DS is hilarious, especially for anyone who has ever had a family. 

[Victoria Watcher]

STARS ON ICE 2021 TOUR
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 7:00pm
Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, BC
Tickets on sale Thursday, May 20 at 10:00 am

[todd]

“B.J. Thomas, the Grammy-winning singer who enjoyed success on the pop, country and gospel charts with such hits as “I Just Can’t Help Believing,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” and “Hooked on a Feeling,” has died. He was 78..”: https://globalnews.c...omas-dead-obit/

[todd]

Lot of the headlines seem to point out Hooked on a Feeling but I remember for Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head.


https://youtu.be/t30cX6OGO0U

[Victoria Watcher]

Lot of the headlines seem to point out Hooked on a Feeling but I remember for Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head.


https://youtu.be/t30cX6OGO0U

 

 

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6gs49E5F0Xc

[todd]

^That's the Blue Swede cover.

[Victoria Watcher]

^That's the Blue Swede cover.

 

the much more successful blue suede cover.

[todd]

the much more successful blue suede cover.

Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga Ooga-Chaka.

[Rob Randall]

B. J. Thomas played concerts here at the Jaycee Fair in 1977, a year after declaring bankruptcy.

[Spy Black]

He also performed two very well attended shows at the Royal Theatre in 2008. 

Raindrops got a standing-O.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

https://twitter.com/...963973915332609

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 June 2021 - 04:55 PM.

[Matt R.]

With the reopening of dining rooms and the return of warmer weather, we are starting to see more and more live music again. Tom Hooper (Grapes of Wrath, etc) is playing four nights a week here all summer!

Matt.