Harbouring any Chinese New Year guilt? This hard core grandma will make sure you never miss a family gathering
- Who said older people can’t rock out? A Malaysian film collective has created a hilarious spoof metal music video featuring a band of rocking retirees
- Their message is to remind youngsters to show respect to their elders
Crank up the volume, start a mosh pit and get ready to open a dark portal to the hottest new metal band on the scene, fronted by … someone’s grandma.
Did you make the grave mistake of forgetting to visit your dear old amah [grandma in Hokkien] this year? If so, she’s coming after you with searing put-downs in the song Please Come Back Home.
Malaysian film collective Grim Film has welcomed in the Year of the Pig with their hilarious spoof metal music video featuring a band of rocking retirees scolding youngsters for not showing respect to their elders and visiting as often as they should.
The clip, titled The Most Emotional Chinese New Year, opens with a group of millennials sitting around a dinner table and invoking the wrath of their grandmother after complaining about the “very bad” food that comes with the obligatory visit to relatives every year. A moment of awkward silence follows after a stony-faced grandma places a plate of braised mushrooms on the table – and then all hell breaks loose.
“I am your grandma/ I only see you once a year/ I know you’d rather be out with your friends/ But now you’re mine ‘til I say it ends,” the elderly singer screams, as a grandfather beats out double kick-drum rhythms alongside chugging guitar riffs from two aunties.
Written by Grim Film founder Jared Lee and metal producer Nash Muhandes, Please Come Back Home is actually performed by vocalists Eunice Yin and Esty Richard with the Malaysian industrial metal group Fracture.