Joe Hendry took inspiration from Queen and Pitbull for his entrance music

Joe Hendry has revealed the science behind his TNA entrance music.

The Scottish star has become hugely popular in recent months, with his opening song ‘I Believe in Joe Hendry’ nearly reaching the top of the UK charts, thanks to a huge boost from wrestling fans.

Meanwhile, his NXT debut became the most-watched music video on WWE social media this year, with over seventeen million people watching the crowd sing along to his entrance music, despite him never having appeared in WWE before.

Joe Hendry spoke with Chris Van Vliet about his entrance music. He explained how Queen’s “We Will Rock You” inspired him to “reverse engineer” it into a catchy song.

“I reverse engineered what I wanted to happen. To me, pro wrestling is all about audience interaction, so throughout the song, you’ll notice that we’re literally showing and saying what we want the audience to do. So, say his name and he’ll pop up, and you’ll see the two claps. No matter what version of that song I had, there was always a visual of the two claps.”

“Then I literally tell the audience to wave their hands from side to side, side to side. That’s it. And that came from, uh, I heard Queen talk about how they structured “We Will Rock You” and how they found the perfect BPM for the way they wanted people to stomp and clap. Then I looked at the BPM they were using for the slower moments, and I went with 120 BPM for the faster moments, which is like your… it’s kind of pop timing hypnotic.

Joe Hendry used a Pitbull song as inspiration for his entrance

Pitbull is another key inspiration for Joe Hendry’s music. The American rapper is famous for naming places he’s been to in his song, and Hendry took that to heart.

This part of the song started out as a road song mocking his failure as a wrestler. However, it has now become an anthem for Joe Hendry fans around the world.

“I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go for it because the song I had before had people liking it and it was catchy, but I just felt like it needed a little more energy,” Joe Hendry said. “So I wanted something a little faster. The first section is kind of like Pitbull’s ‘International Love.’ I mentioned that on the road that I had been a musician for a long time before I got into wrestling. That melody was like, ‘Oh my God, we’re never going to make it with this rock music. We should just be like Pitbull and name places.’”

“So I wrote that song as a joke about how we failed as musicians. After shows, we’d be driving around in the car, like, ‘London, Paris, Tokyo,’ and when I started writing that song, it kept playing in my head. I was like, ‘Maybe this is the one.’ So yeah, it was a song I wrote as a joke, to play on the fact that I hadn’t had any success as a musician about 10 years ago, and it kept playing in my head. And here we are today,” Hendry added.

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