Alex Melton has been consistently kicking ass with his YouTube channel of covers songs — mostly either doing popular songs (like Journey) in the style of Blink-182, or doing pop-punk and hip-hop songs as country tunes. He's got a wheelhouse, and god damn, he nails it every time. I don't know if his newly released Rick Astley cover was intended as some sort of meta-April Fool's Joke, but he plays it straight and earnest, and that's part of what makes it so good.
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