A woman has gone viral for showcasing her parents’ support of her DJig career, as they busted a move while watching her at a rave.
The 25-year-old woman, who performs under the name Thorn, lives in New Zealand, and told Newsweek that her parents, Lisa and Pat Mulrooney, have “always been super supportive.”
“DJing is a hobby I’m very passionate about,” she said, and admitted that while her parents “definitely don’t care for the music,” they will “vibe out to it anyways, since they know it’s something I enjoy.”
A video of Thorn’s parents doing just that has now gone viral, after she posted it to her TikTok account @thorn_nz on April 9.
In the clip, Thorn performs with another DJ in front of an outdoor crowd, but on the other side of a fence are her parents, jumping up and down and waving their arms as the beat drops.
As her father frantically tries to get his phone working to take a video, her mother is giving it her all as she dances along to the music, with Thorn writing over the clip: “Mum going hard.”
And as her father starts jumping and dancing, she added: “They were really getting into it.”
Thorn wrote in the caption: “When your parents turn up to see you DJ. They had more energy than the crowd, I’ll give them that!”
TikTok users loved it, awarding the video more than 1.2 million views and 183,000 likes, as one commenter wrote: “This is love. Mom’s always ready. Dad strapped up making sure the memory is forever.”
Another shared their own story: “My mom used to sit in her car in the car park and watch me unload the trucks with a forklift. Then I got a job in a bank and she used to come in and sit and watch me serve the customers.”
“I think you found your backup dancers,” one said, as another described them as “parents: legendary edition.”
Plenty asked why her parents were outside of the fence rather than in the actual gig, but as Thorn explained to Newsweek, her parents were just “passing by and wanted to get a glimpse of me and my best friend Zara playing.”
“Being separate from the gig was sort of a safe space for them to have a boogie, and I can guarantee those dance moves wouldn’t have come out if they had been inside,” she said.
The music industry is massive worldwide, and in 2024, the total revenue of the recorded music industry was $29.6 billion, an increase of nearly five percent from the year before. Streaming revenues worldwide reached a further $20.4 billion the same year, according to data from Statista.
Thorn noted the reaction commenters had to her parents’ support, and said it was “very wholesome seeing so many people touched by it, and made me realize how lucky I am to have parents like them.”
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