Shayna Baszler discusses the inspiration for her solo theme song.
Although fans don't get to hear the song often due to the fact that she's in a tag team, it turns out that Shayna Baszler's current solo theme song, 'Limb By Limb', is actually inspired by a KISS song.
In a new interview with Billboard, Baszler first talked about being a huge KISS fan and how they were her first favorite band.
"I’m in this tag-team right now with Ronda [Rousey], who has a very iconic entrance song, so it just makes sense that we come out to that. But as far as [my first entrance song] “Loyalty Is Everything” — if I’m being honest, I didn’t like it at first, but it actually really grew on me to the point that I almost didn’t wanna change it when it was time. I know fans really loved that song, too, because they still kind of complain about the new one, “Limb By Limb.” But the thing with “Limb by Limb” is that when I was wrestling in the indies — I’m a huge Kiss fan. They were, like, my first favorite band. My dad took me to a concert when I was real young, and I was like, 'These guys are so cool! There’s fire!'"
Baszler then talked about how her current solo theme song is inspired by EXCRUCIATION's cover of KISS' 'God Of Thunder' song.
"'God of Thunder' was a song that I used as an entrance. But I needed something a lot heavier, so I found this band called EXCRUCIATION that did a cover of 'God of Thunder', and I came out to their song — their version of it. When I was ping-ponging with WWE about a new entrance song, I sent them this track, and if you listen to this EXCRUCIATION version of 'God of Thunder' and the song “Limb By Limb,” you’ll see where it comes from. It’s very much inspired by that. “God of Thunder ” — my indie theme — is very much the mood that I was talking about that I love, and feel like I’m coming out to. I had a hand in it and I like it."
Shayna Baszler and Ronda Rousey are set to defend the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships against Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez at Saturday's Money In The Bank premium live event. Fans can see the full lineup for the event by clicking here.
In a separate recent interview, Baszler talked about wanting to defend the tag belts as often as possible. Fans can learn more here.
Special thanks to Billboard for the quote(s).
