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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what you tell me" is the polar opposite of any lyric sung by an X Factor winner.) And Morter was quietly confident because he's tried this before: last year, he attempted to usurp X Factor winner Alexandra Burke by driving Rick Astley's 1987 hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" back up the charts. It didn't even break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rage Against Simon Cowell? A British Pop Charts Upset | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...uninitiated, the Web may seem like some sort of a strange inside joke. Chuck Norris is more popular there than he ever was offline. Rick Astley is prone to popping up at random moments. And the cats. Always with the cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Guide to the Weird, Wild Web | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...RICK ASTLEY writing movie musical. Because the people demand a two-hour Rickroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...Nast's official position on Anna's employment is unambiguous. "This is something both [chairman] Si Newhouse and Anna Wintour have blankly denied," says spokesman Patrick O'Connell. But still the stories persist. Replacement names are bandied about: Carine Roitfeld from French Vogue is a favorite, with Amy Astley from Teen Vogue as a dark filly. The most recent reports are that all the rumors are merely the result of jostling during new contract negotiations between Wintour and Newhouse. (Read a 1988 TIME article about Wintour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wintour of Discontent: Those Vogue Editor Rumors | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...Congratulations - if you watched this far, you've just been Rickrolled by the most powerful woman in Congress. The Rickroll, an internet meme that started a few years ago, is basically a prank in which unsuspecting viewers are tricked into listening to Rick Astley's 1987 hit "Never Gonna Give You Up". The classic Rickroll is when someone is tricked into clicking on link that takes them to a video of the song. Some examples are here, here, and here. An Obama-themed Barack Roll got more than 5 million hits on YouTube. And some kid even Rickrolled his English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rickrolled by Nancy Pelosi | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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