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    Rick Astley worries about female pop stars being "coerced" into stripping off onscreen

    The Never Gonna Give You Up hitmaker - who shot to fame in the 1980s - has admitted he feels uncomfortable seeing young women in the music industry wearing skimpy outfits in their videos as he fears they could be shedding their clothes due to pressure rather than feeling "comfy"


    He told The Sunday Times newspaper: "I sometimes see the videos that some women are in - controversial as this may be - and I just go: 'I hope you decided that. I hope you decided to wear that and you're comfy with that. That you've not been kind of like slightly coerced into it'.

    "Or that you've not been like: 'She went down to almost nothing - so I'm gonna go down to practically nothing'."

    Rick also admitted he's glad he didn't become famous in the age of social media, adding: "I would not want to be starting out with a music career right now because it's just so alien to me ... I think a lot of people are struggling because of the social media thing and it can eat you."

    The 59-year-old singer admitted he spent years healing because fame was so difficult to deal with and it took a lot of therapy for him to be able to move forward with his life.

    He explained: "I was probably a bit messed up. I don't think anybody goes through that kind of 15 minutes of fame and doesn't come away with a few scars ...

    "I think it's weird I had this crazy monster hit around the world and no one ever took me aside and said: 'By the way, here's a few tips, here are a few hints.'

    "I didn't really know who I was a lot of the time. I kind of thought: 'Who have I just been for five years?' Part of it was definitely me, but a lot of it wasn't."

    It comes after Rick was recently asked to name his biggest disappointment in life and he admitted it was "fame".

    He told told the Guardian newspaper: "Fame. The upside is not worth the downside - you can't turn fame on and off, and have privacy."

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