Joe Hendry speaks on his iconic theme song.
Over the past couple of years, Joe Hendry has become a sensation across pro wrestling due to his character, work ethic and his easy to sing along to theme song being a large part of that.
While speaking to Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Hendry spoke about his theme music, and the original version of it he used in Ring Of Honor.
“Because in Ring of Honor, I had this song. The audio file is the exact same, but when I do the turn, it’s almost like the difference between the British Office and the American Office. I had this discussion the other day that it’s like wrestling is theater, and it needs to be larger than life. I was really more focused on the nuance before of what I thought was funny. Whereas it’s like with wrestling, you have to be larger than life. So this became that sort of thing. So I think making that transition, and also what I learned at TNA about character development. I learned then that making everything bigger and just learning who and what Joe Hendry was as a character, I allowed that to come out visually in the second entrance video that I had done. And I think by doing that, it just tipped it over the edge.”
When asked later on in the interview about the 'say his name' element, Hendry remarked that he wanted his theme music to be as literal as possible.
“I don’t know. I just remember when I wrote the song I wanted it to be as literal as possible. So I wanted it to be I will tell the audience when to clap, I’ll tell them when to wave their hands, and I will explain that if you are to say my name, you will be rewarded with me appearing.”
Hendry is currently the TNA World Champion, and competed at WWE WrestleMania 41 last month.
Randy Orton recently revealed that he pushed hard to face Hendry at WrestleMania 41. You can read more about that here.
