Jim Johnston Says That Modern Wrestling Music Doesn't Create An Emotional Response

[Batsute]

There’s a documentary?

There’s some cut clips of Jim talking about what inspired for each of themes he came up with. I think it was part of a wwf interview, but I could never find the full thing.

 

[Saint1]

Bobby Lashley's is so damn epic generic. Sounds epic but it doesn't hit.

 

[BrehWyatt]

It's much easier to create an emotional response if the theme itself doesn't change/has staying power or at the very least, retains key aspects through its evolution, i.e. the theme grows and evolves in-step with the character's growth and evolution.

Good example: Stone Cold, The Rock, Undertaker

Sometimes, you need a major pivot to drive home the character (Tribal Chief Reigns), but in general, familiarity tends to be the way.

 

[Dipsey Doo]

Bobby Lashley's is so damn epic generic. Sounds epic but it doesn't hit.

He's never really had a great theme to be honest.

Remember his theme from back in the day:

 

[jeh]

Ever-Rise WWE developmental theme and their first AEW theme as 2.0 dope





EC3 The Narrative goes hard, shame CYN didn't get off the ground floor and wrestlers had to go crawling back to WWE ran by the worst booker of all time...The Game (Kross who was perfect in Impact and Braun "Now Doing Strictly Tag Team Matches" Strowman)

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

He's right.

The music is a lot of what made me a wrestling fan back in the day, now they all have the same generic music.

I think a lot of that is that music was just better in the '90s and guys like Jim Johnston & Jimmy Hart had better music to crib from

Generic Trap & generic metal is what's popular now

 

[Norrin Radd]

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