Jim Johnston Critiques WWE’s Entrance Themes, Says Wrestling Isn’t Making Big Stars Anymore

Jim Johnston isn’t a fan of modern-day entrance themes, saying that they’re failing to help create new major stars. Johnston, who was the primary composer for WWE for decades until his release in 2017, recently sat down for an interview with The False Face. During the conversation he weighed in on the matter of modern-day theme songs, which with WWE in particular has faced criticism for being lackluster.

Johnson noted that the current entrance themes sound too “generic.” He noted that he believes this is why, in both WWE and AEW, big stars aren’t being made anymore. You can see the highlights below (per Wrestling Inc):

On WWE’s Theme Songs:

“It just sounds like noise to me, and all the themes just sound generic. Whether it was my music, or a Jimmy Hart theme, or an outside band thing, you used to be able to be making dinner in the kitchen with the TV in the other room and you’d know who was coming out. You could almost follow the program from the other room. Now I just don’t think it’s like that at all.”

On Wrestling Not Creating Stars Anymore:

“And for some reason, the powers that be have forgotten their roots of how powerful music is in creating stars. I further believe that’s why they’re not creating, either WWE or AEW, big stars anymore. There are no new Steve Austins. There are no Rocks around now. It’s because everyone’s sort of in this layer of generic. I don’t understand it.”