Performance

Together Forever

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Released in 1988, Rick Astley’s “Together Forever” pairs rock-pop polish with the machine-tooled songwriting of Stock Aitken Waterman, a sound that helped define late-’80s radio on both sides of the Atlantic. It is a pledge-song built on repetition and forward motion, where devotion is treated less as confession than as a hook. In the New York area, it registers as part of the era’s shared soundtrack, still circulating through dance nights and nostalgia bills rather than any single NYC premiere. At NJPAC, its bright certainty sits in revealing contrast beside freestyle and electronic acts that work the same decade’s pulse from a grittier angle.