Rick is one of the loveliest people in the business. I've had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times when we've worked on shows together (as well as various members of his band) and he takes a genuine interest in everyone's lives, insists that his band and crew are put up in the same luxury hotels as him, etc. A rare gem in the industry!
I can tell you that I "won" a KFOG call-in contest, where I almost had all the answers right, and they told me what to say to get them all. Then they edited out their prompt.
I see the YouTube link, I see it is grayed out, I know that I am in a thread about Never Gonna Give You Up, and STILL I managed to get myself Rickrolled.
That is interesting. Some shots appear to have been done with modern equipment, like a new iPhone. In some shots the backgrounds give off that deep dream vibe.
Presumably all older media will eventually get updated to whatever contemporary standard exists. For example, the entire series of Saved by the Bell in 4k using the latest AI.
I wonder how long until we have 2D media that is turned into fully 3D experiences where you can go into the scenes and watch them from any angle.
Or to go further, the characters are aware of your presence and will go off script based on your actions. Seems almost within reach.
It looks like there is an increase of depth of field, which might make it look more like it is from a phone than cinematic (small sensor = increased depth of field)
For the same field of view, a smaller sensor requires a decrease in the focal length; this leads to a greater depth of field. Moving to a medium-format camera will give less depth of field (and a large-format camera even less). Different sensor sizes using the same focal length will give the same depth of field, but the field of view will vary.
> Presumably all older media will eventually get updated to whatever contemporary standard exists.
I'd rather something come out than can turn 4:3 into 16:9. This article explains why even with the original film that's not really possible now without remaking a lot of scenes.
I read an interesting article about problems upsacaling, I think it was, babalon5. One of the issues they had was that while the original film/video was ahead of it’s time, and could be extended to letterbox relatively easily, but all the CG scenes were rendered 4:3. Led to some unfortunate compromises and some scenes weren’t the same.
ST:TNG got a full re-editing from original film and almost all of the CGI was actually re-created. IDK how it comes across on Netflix but the Blu-ray rips on my Plex are incredible. It wasn't a show I had an urge to watch again but I did it just to nerd out on the editing work.
That's actually so sweet! Imagine a whole room full of people who are all good at singing and they are singing your song with you and looking at you and enjoying singing your song with you. I think and hope that even as a famous person with lots and lots of fans all over the world, something like singing his song with those people still felt like a special moment.
I'm surprised it took this long. How many seconds do you have to watch a video before YouTube counts it as a view? There are definitely a lot of frustrated people out there who would have closed the tab immediately after getting rickrolled.
Maybe it's because it's the 4k remaster, only out for 11 years? Nonetheless, it's got a couple of hundred views from this household - but tuning more into the acoustic one now which is a masterpiece - and was also featured in Deadpool 2 (sadly not prominently in the Disney Plus version). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xKM3mGt2pE
Sorry a bit OT; it's kind of my lullaby for getting daughter to sleep, (trying to) sing along with Morten.
I'd guess a lot of these older music videos were posted by many people and the views don't all get aggregated.
Interestingly, (yahoo) launchcast could let you watch music videos for free on demand, but couldn't let you pick a song to listen to for audio only because music videos had less onerous licensing.
Of all the random internet memes and love affairs. I am always grateful that the internet chose this one early on. It just as easily could have landed on Selena Gomez, or insert other artist who has catchy ear worms - but might not have aged so gracefully.
My daughter has recently discovered the joys of Rickrolling. She finds it hilarious. Especially when she managed to get her granddad recently. He didn't have a clue what was going on though..
I can't remember the exact number any more, but I was some big round number like a billion or something'th person to ever enter Disneyland, in I think 1989. They gave me a Sony Walkman.
The sad irony of the link is that it no longer rickrolls anyone because of the mandatory pre-roll ad. You have plenty of time to see what video you're about to see.
Rick Astley headlined a festival in the UK over the weekend. A couple of nights before appearing on the main stage he randomly appeared unscheduled in another tent to do a small set. I choose to believe this counts as rickrolling.
my favorite rick roll, and I'm not even sure how to find it, was this long elaborate story / post. It was about a guy accidentally picking up a prostitute and confusing her offer for a pb&j sandwich and getting pulled over and trying to explain this all to the cop. At the end, you are told to go read the first word of every line (or sentence, I forget).... "never gonna give you up...". Got me good.
When I moved house literally the first post I had sent to me at my new address was Rick Astleys album. Took me years to find out who Rickrolled me IRL too.
It was received as a typical Stock, Aitken and Waterman product, very, very, very similar to Jason Donovan, Mel&Kim, Kylie Minogue and the likes. It was like a train of one hit wonders: one smash hit, a few less popular songs and then forgotten. By the end of the eighties, most people had enough of the Stock, Aitken and Waterman formula.
And then for some reason, Rickrolling happened.
While I was a teenager in the latter half of the eighties, Stock, Aitken and Waterman totally dominated mainstream music on radio in Ireland (and presumably Britain). In the summer of ‘87, I spent a week painting an uncle’s house with only a battery-powered “transistor radio” for company. During this time, “Never Gonna Give You Up” was played about once every 90 minutes or so – and I grew to really hate it.
I blame Stock, Aitken and Waterman for putting me off pop music and turning me into something of a music snob which lasted until well into my twenties. Having said that, I had a soft spot for Mel and Kim’s “Respectable” as a guilty pleasure and I thought “Roadblock” was a genuinely good tune (though I preferred “Pump up the volume” by MARRS).
I was more into Duran Duran and the Thompson Twins at the time, but it was a catchy song, and I would find myself humming along. I was amazed as everyone else when it got a second life via the internet.
I was 14, in France, and as others said it was a hit like many others, even if a catchy one. I also don't know why Rickrolling took off but I distinctly remember the feeling of surprise, then joy the first times it happened to me. Being tricked plus the nostalgia feeling gave me really good vibes about this, I guess it was the same for many people and why it worked so well.
Yep, I was 17. I thought it was super-cringey manufactured trash. Well, it was written/produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, who cornered the market in super-cringey teen-pop trash.
This song was always way better than the other SAW output IMHO. Great song, endearing performance - it's not just audio of <someone> singing it's this video of cheerful Rick singing and bopping around.
Whoever took the Nuremberg marching scenes from Triumph of the Will on YouTube and matched the tempo to Never Gonna Give You Up has a reserved seat on the first train straight to hell (à la Grim Fandango)
Since Rick Astley was a Stock, Aitken and Waterman product, not that much, I'm afraid. Stock, Aitkan and Waterman are the writers - and most likely have other credits related tot the song, so most of the money goes to them.
It should be noted that this means a billion views on YouTube. There are no metrics to track how many times it was viewed collectively. It's actually around 300 billion views.
