Wrestling With Dad

[bradl]

Normally, something like this is filed away under "Home Movies" that only the family would see; something that one normally doesn't see everyday, but could easily be a rite of passage.

But when you make a music video for a song off your latest album called Wrestle With Dad, and your father is the very reserved signer/songwriter Neil Finn (from Crowded House), you'd think that it would be rather awkward or bizarre/weird.

Instead, you could call it the most hilarious wrestling video ever, or the one of the best Father's Day video you've ever seen. I'll let The Age take it from here, and enjoy!

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainm...own-to-it-in-music-video-20150624-ghwm8i.html

Wrestling with Dad: Neil and Liam Finn hilariously get down to it in music video

A boisterous father-son wrestle isn't something you encounter every day, thankfully. But it's not unheard of either, as a rite of passage.

It certainly makes a bizarre and hilarious music video, especially when the father is somewhat reserved Kiwi songwriting star Neil Finn, manhandling his talented son, Liam, in the latter's latest video clip.

The song is aptly titled Wrestle with Dad, from Liam Finn's 2014 album The Nihilist. The video was released overnight and fans are already raving about it.

"OMG what did I just watch? Entertaining but slightly disturbing at the same time," one said on Facebook, while another posted: "I honestly cannot stop watching and laughing. I'm sitting at my desk at work having to manage the silent laugh."

"And all this time I thought it was 'Wrestle my soul'...it was 'son' all along LOL," another one writes.

Liam Finn said in a recent interview that Wrestle with Dad was to be taken literally.

"I am a bit cynical about certain assumptions made about my relationship with dad," he said.

"In some ways it didn't start out being about him at all. Nothing I was singing was technically me revealing anything about our relationship other than we like to wrestle. It's a good soundtrack to wrestle to.

"Ever since I was old enough to wrestle, we've wrestled. When I was smaller he used to waste me but now I can take him."

The amusing video was directed and edited by Liam and Neil Finn, and was filmed by little brother Elroy Finn and George Kannavas.

BL.

 

[mscriv]

Too funny.