Cody Rhodes Says He’s ‘Locked Into’ His Theme Song Unless He Turns Heel

Cody Rhodes says his theme song “Kingdom” is something he is “locked into” unless he turns heel at some point in the future. Rhodes has used the Downstait song since his post-WWE run on the independent circuit, and carried it with him through AEW and WWE. The song has been a big success for both Rhodes and the band. He recently appeared on Matt & Shane’s Secret Podcast and got on the subject of wrestling theme songs.

Rhodes noted that wrestling themes don’t have to be good necessarily, though he thinks “Kingdom” is; they have to be catchy. He spoke about the genesis of the song and how he is “married” to the song unless he turns heel. You can see the highlights below:

On the Key to a Good Wrestling Entrance Theme:

“To your question, the trick with a wrestling song? All the greatest wrestling music, it doesn’t need to be a good song. It needs to be a catchy song. Jimmy Hart, ‘Mouth of the South,’ the manager for Hogan, he was making all that great ’90s content, music that ended up being everyone’s favorite. It was catchy.”

On His Theme Song:

“I like ‘Kingdom,’ the song I come out to. But it — and I actually think those guys are great. Downstait’s great. It’s a great song, it’s done amazing things. It’s the only walkout song I think WWE has, that WWE doesn’t own. Which, I don’t know how we feel about that. But the issue is, I hear it so much that — especially at the end of the night when I’m doing the rounds and I’m staying, and they’re just playing that one song, it gets you.

“And then I heard my daughter the other day, she doesn’t know the words. But she’s saying, she put Paw Patrol in. I’ve heard people do the ‘Something, something, Cody Rhodes’ which is just kind of the appropriate way to sing it and whatnot. As long as you get to the ‘Whoa!’… if you think of it that way, it’s a pretty interesting song by WWE standards, too. It’s got my voice, which I recorded on a generation one iMac when I first left WWE, because I took this song on the road with me. That’s one of the things why WWE doesn’t own it. I took it when I went and did independents and basically started myself back over, to eventually come back to WWE. But I can say this, it can never change unless I was to go bad guy. Then that song is out, I suppose. But that’s the other thing, I’m locked into it. We’re married together, that song.”

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit Matt & Shane’s Secret Podcast with a h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.