The Fall Of WWE Music - What Happened?

[Playaz Eyez]

Good vid here that basically details something we’ve all discussed at one time or another in regards to past and present WWE themes. There’s a lot of current ones that just blend together, and since I have watched less wrestling the past few years, I often catch matches in progress, so I normally miss the entrances, and after running through a handful of them, you could hit shuffle, close your eyes, and not know which theme goes to which character. Peak Jim Johnston had me liking Dean Malenko, Crash Holly, and Al Snow themes.

 

[Elim Garak]

Relied less and less on Jim Johnston until they barley used him then fired him.

 

[Nero Christ]

Thing is Jim actually cared that the theme matched the character and helped tell their story

WWE hasn't actually cared that deeply about their own product since 2003 so no need to put that much effort in

 

[Crack Daniels]

Characters stopped being strong enough to warrant distinct themes

 

[MenacingMonk]

A lot of people gave CFO shyt, but I liked their stuff. This new guy/team makes CFO look like JJ.

 

[Daniel.]

Uncle Howdy theme restoring that feeling, but yeah, lots of trash for the most part.

 

[Metal Face]

bushing the GOAT Jim Johnston happened

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Characters stopped being strong enough to warrant distinct themes

This is one of the biggest reasons for such watered down themes. How can you create a nice theme for wrestlers that really don’t have gimmicks other than ‘good wrestler that grew up watching wrestling and always wanted to be in the WWE” ???

 

[prophecypro]

they did Jim Johnston dirty

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

Them getting someone that has the same ear and vision Jim Johnston has. Whomever is in charge gets it right at times, but mainly the themes are

 

[THE 101]

Honestly the themes today are a lot better than during the 2000s Ruthless Aggression era where every theme was some emo heavy metal trash

People act like Jim Johnson was putting out nothing but heat but he fell off years ago.

 

[Riley Escobar]

Honestly the themes today are a lot better than during the 2000s Ruthless Aggression era where every theme was some emo heavy metal trash

People act like Jim Johnson was putting out nothing but heat but he fell off years ago.

Off the top of my head I can think of at least 15 themes that debuted during that era that weren’t, it just seems that way because of all the trash like Luther Reigns and Heidenreich

 

[DaHNIC82]

Getting rid of Jim was like replacing Dr Dre and putting in the $Uicide Boyz

 

[Kingshango]

bushing the GOAT Jim Johnston happened

This.

 

[StraxStrax]

Jim Johnston fell off hard so moving to CFO$ was the right move.