When most people think about songs to send someone to piss them off, they think of meme classic “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley. Not me. I think of something far stranger, less mainstream, with much more mysterious origins. I think of “We Like Pizza” by (who else?) Pizza Kids. Specifically, my mind goes to this 4:3 static image version uploaded to YouTube ten years ago:
Who’s to say that these are even the children who sang the song?
This is my “Never Gonna Give You Up.” For a decade, my sister has been sending me this video at random (our own custom Rickroll), but she also sends it any time either of us talks about pizza, which is a lot. And it doesn’t stop with me. She sends it to her friends, her closer coworkers, and the rest of our family. When I asked my sister how she initially found the song, she said that one of her best friend’s ex-boyfriends showed it to her, at which point they all watched it on loop. (My sister says, however, that this ex-boyfriend “cannot be interviewed because he doesn’t deserve that celebrity.”)