Randy Orton addresses rumors regarding his entrance music.
WWE’s theme song landscape has been ever-changing in recent years, however some of the longest-running and most iconic themes have managed to stay in tact. One of those includes Rev Theory’s “Voices” for Randy Orton, however “The Viper” has now admitted to Bleacher Report that he doesn’t necessarily love it.
“Rev Theory’s great, my song’s great,” Orton said. “A lot of people enjoy it. I have never loved, loved, loved it. You see me bouncing my head to New Day’s music. When AJ Styles comes to the ring with his music? I’m singing along. Samoa Joe, when he was with us, just the instrumentals. Roman’s, The Judgment Day’s music. There’s music that gets me going. The kind of music I listen to at the gym, the kind of music that pumps me up doesn’t really fit Randy Orton the character.”
B/R’s Graham Matthews went on to ask Orton if there was any truth to Fightful Select‘s report that Orton nearly received a new theme ahead of his Survivor Series return. Interestingly, Orton says there is some truth to it.
“There is some truth to what you read, but I was just as much behind it as WWE and we were actually working throughout the summer on a new song,” Orton said. “It kind of kept evolving and evolving and when we thought we had something, a higher-up in WWE brass would listen to it and say, ‘Eh, it sounds a little like Roman’s here, so take that out.’
“It got to a point where we played it at Survivor Series with the intent, like, ‘Am I going to come out with a new song tonight?’ The decision at the eleventh hour was ‘Voices’ is just a song people have learned to love. And even though it doesn’t get my blood pumping, it gets all of those fans pumping and they know when they hear those first few notes or chords or whatever, they know who’s coming down and they know how it makes them feel.”
Orton concluded by stating that he wouldn’t mind receiving new theme music before he retires.
“I would love, before it’s all said and done, to have some music that gives me goosebumps,” Orton said. “Like I said, ‘Voices’ is great and it makes sense. The words make sense. It was damn near written for me I feel like. Rich from Rev Theory is great and a hell of a singer and no problem with them at all, but it’s just not the type of music that pumps up Randy Orton.”
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