Loving: the Barackroll

The Rickroll is an internet prank meme that has exploded in web pop culture over the last year or so - in essence it involves tricking someone into watching a video clip of Rick Astley's 1987 pop hit "Never gonna give you up" by providing a link that they think is to a completely different video. (It's well worth reading the wikipedia article for a full history of great rickrollings - everything from Scientology protests to major league baseball games to guest presenting punk stars Pennywise on Australia's own Rage.)

The logical progression, given the American election, is of course, the Barackroll.
Someone (quite possible hmatkin) has spent a lot of time scouring the man's speeches and interviews to put a clip together of him "singing" this pop classic.



Here's a side by side comparison