"She Wants to Dance With Me," Rick Astley (1988)

Is it a pop song or a statement of purpose?

Peak: #6 on the Hot 100
Streams: 10 million

After I wrote about seeing En Vogue on the Mixtape Tour in 2022, my thoughts naturally turned to Rick Astley, who was also on that bill and was my first pop music crush. I have such a thing for clean-cut, preppie guys, and I think it all started when I saw Astley in his trench coat in the “Never Gonna Give You U…