Never Gonna Give You Up

Rick Astley

“Never Gonna Give You Up”

“We’re no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. A full commitments what I’m thinking of. You wouldn’t get this from any other guy.”

The lines above are from the very beginning of the song in the first verse. From this first verse I can conclude that he and his audience, which I believe is a female, know each other well. He also makes it very clear that he wants this individual to be in his life with some sort of commitment and is giving all the reasons why they should be together. This individual has been in his past and they know eachother well enough that they may have developed past rules from their previous relationship. A good example of some rules might be in his repetitive chorus, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. The repetition in his choruses paints a picture that he may have hurt her in the past and would never do it again. I can also pull that it almost seems difficult for the two of them to start this relationship again because of how the past one may have ended.