Showing posts with label VH1. Show all posts
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Monday, 1 April 2013

Monday Morning Music - "I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling"

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up


"Never Gonna Give You Up" is a 1987 song by British singer Rick AstleyThe song was a worldwide number-one hit, initially in the singer's native United Kingdom in 1987.  In 2004, it was voted #28 in 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs ... Ever by VH1. In 2008, Rick Astley won the MTV EMA awards for "Best Act Ever" with the song "Never Gonna Give You Up", as a result of collective voting from thousands of people on the internet, due to the popular phenomenon of Rickrolling.

 "Never Gonna Give You Up" is the subject of a popular Internet prank known as "Rickrolling" involving misleading links redirecting to the song's music video.[6] By May 2007, the practice had achieved notoriety on the Internet, and it increased in popularity after its use as a 2008 April Fool's Day joke by various media companies and websites, including YouTube rickrolling all of its featured videos on that day and a website allowing people to Rickroll their friends' phones.

Enjoy (if you can)!

Monday, 5 November 2012

Monday Morning Music - "Milan, New York, and Japan."

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Right Said Fred - "I'm Too Sexy"


 "I'm Too Sexy" is the title of a song by English trio Right Said Fred from their album Up. The single topped the American charts for three weeks in early 1992, after having peaked at number two in Britain less than six months earlier.

 The song was rated #49 on "The 50 Worst Songs Ever! Watch, Listen and Cringe!"[1] by Blender. In 2007, the song was listed as #80 on the VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s. It was also ranked #2 on VH1's 40 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 90s.[2] Most recently, in 2010, the song was ranked at #8 on AOL Radio's list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever, with Matthew Wilkening advising the reader: "Next time the Brits try to knock our culture, just ask them where [Right Said Fred] had four Top 30 singles in one year."

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