I Just Rickrolled Myself

You know what getting Rickrolled is, right? It's a bait and switch tactic, where people believe they are clicking on a legitimate link that someone sent them, but instead you see the video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". In essence, geting Rickrolled is a mix of great expectations and utter disappointment. And, of course, a really cheesy 80s song.  For those new to Rickrolling, I beseech you to read the Wikipedia entry because it has some fun factoids (18 million people have been Rickrolled so far!), and other examples of real life Rick Rolls. (For example, the New York Mets held an online contest to vote on the new song for 7th inning stretch, and of course, Rick Astley's song came up the winner) Anyway, how I came to Rickroll myself. I was playing around with the Ocarina, a flute-like instrument on my iPhone. In order to play it, you have to blow into the iPhone mic and use the touch screen to open and close "holes" to play notes. It's relatively easy to play, but since I'm just a music amateur, I decided to visit the company's forums in order to find some new songs to play. Since the forums are a community, most songs are transcribed by regular Ocarina users. So far, I've found gems like the Star Wars theme, Moon River, and El Condor Pasa, an old Andean song. The forums are busy and it's all user-generated songs, so you have to rely on the generosity of others So I found a song to play. And I'm not proud of the song choice. It was "My Heart Will Go On", the song from the movie Titanic. Ok, I realize it's not the greatest song in the world, but I was really interested in playing the intro to the song, since the original was a flute solo. I settled in front of computer, grabbed my iPhone Ocarina and started to play the song. Very quickly, I was stymied. The notes I was playing didn't sound like the flute intro. But I kept on hitting the notes as transcribed. As I was about halfway into the song, I finally was able to put together what song it really was. It was "Never Gonna Give You Up". I was Rickrolled! Worse, I Rickrolled myself! Argh! Although I stopped to laugh at myself, and this new way to RIckRoll, I finished playing the song, really got into it and am now trying to learn how to play it from memory. So there!
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