YouTube honored April Fools’ Day by linking every featured video on their main page to the video for Rick Astley’s 1987 smash-hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” This practice isn’t new, not remotely, and is known as “Rickrolling” or “being Rickrolled.” Look, it has an entire Wikipedia entry on it. All this attention on the scrawny singer formerly remembered as sounding like a black man but actually being white raises a very important question - what did Rick Astley do to deserve fate as an Internet meme on par with that video of a guy having sex with a horse.

The answer: All his songs sound exactly like “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Except worse. He’s lucky to be immortalized as a sub-par Internet joke and not as one of the most awkward music video personalities of all-time.

Take his song “Whenever You Need Somebody.” It opens with the exact same drum sound as his more famous song, and soon goes into verses that…sound exactly like “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Save a few Daft Punky electro sounds, the only thing separating this track from his other, All Your Base Belong to Us-loved song is the video. Mr. Astley doesn’t awkwardly dance around at night wearing a trench-coat, but rather dances around awkwardly inside a TV while wearing a sports jacket.

“Together Forever” cops “Never Gonna” even worse, simply slowing down the verse a tad and apparently taking place inside a rainbow.

Rick Astley made a stunning number of bad music videos showcasing music that sounds exactly like “Never Gonna Give You Up.” The next song adds female backing vocals (!) to his brand of amateurish Euro-pop, while the video features more awkward dancing, but also a scene where Rick tries on different clothes. Brilliant!

And then there is “Sleeping,” his single from 2001. You could call it evolution, but you could also call it Cher-like trash.

So, while you laugh at Rick Astley’s super-deep voice and bad dance moves this April Fools’ Day, remember what a miracle it is that he gets this much attention at all for anything. Some people would feel hurt they are remembered as an Internet joke. Rick Astley should value it as the most shining moment of his career.

I basically just Rickrolled you for an entire blog post. Yikes.