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Never Gonna Give You Up
Average: 6.12
Highest: 10 x 1 (@headztrong)
Lowest: 1 x 1 (@GhettoPrincess)
I dare you not to bop to this. Go on, listen to this and hold back that frantic armography. Ashley takes on the world-famous Rick Astley song, which is less appreciated for musical value than for meme status. For those who don't know, this became quite popular after abruptly appearing in YouTube values. The art of rickrolling is real. Never Gonna Give You Up receives the gold medal of Degree Girl OMG! covers, which is pretty great. It's a cute disco throwback, and the chorus is fucking amazing, so what's not to like?
A lot, apparently, for
constantino: "This is kinda cute but the production is very clunky…which kills the original hooks. The production, again, is very cheap and flat which makes this a complete miss in my book."
iheartpoptarts comments, "Much like the Whitney song, this arrangement threatens to suck all the fun out of it, but that chorus is never not undeniable." The synths might have done it for
Plethorya: "Why is this the song on the EP where they go all out with the synths?" I don't know, but they work! "Why, why, WHY????" suffers
Sally_Harper, "Why has she covered this?! It’s horrible. I mean, her cover isn’t horrible, but it’s a good cover of a horrible song, when there are so many good songs she could have made a good cover of. I think she’s improved it, actually, so I’ll give her extra points for that."
DJHazey owns up to his Post-Rickrolled Traumatic Syndrome: "A hell of a lot less terrorizing then being pranked with a Rick Astley video, right? It's a dirty little secret that I never actually minded the original song, but hearing Ashley do it is definitely an improvement on principal." Another panellist who finds it better than the 1983 version is
WhenTheSunGoesDown: "Yes! Troll us, Ashley! More of a jam than the original." "This cover is crazy good, I love how she sounds here", praises headztrong, while
Sprockrooster lets us in on his listening sessions with his boyfriend: "My boyfriend is a mess. He says 'I know this. This is a cover' and I am like... this is album full covers, what the fuck. How could you not notice?!" What was his reaction to I Wanna Dance with Somebody? Mess. Let's finish with
Penguin, who calls it... "iconic".