Kit Wilson has went into detail regarding the creation of his popular WWE entrance theme song ‘Man Up’, revealing one change he’d like to make to the song.
With his Pretty Deadly tag team partner Elton Prince on the shelf after undergoing neck surgery, Kit Wilson has recently underwent a repackaging of sorts on SmackDown – complete with a new entrance theme and titantron.
In his bid to squash the “Toxic Masculinity” in WWE, Wilson has found himself becoming increasingly popular in recent weeks, with his entrance theme being a primary reason.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Wilson discussed the catchy theme and revealed how hands on he was with the creation of it:
“I ended up having a fair amount of input. I was pushing for new music when I found out what the situation was going to be and maybe I was going to go solo. I started messaging a lot saying, ‘I’d love to get new music, can I get new music?’
“Eventually I got into contact with Neil (Lawi) I believe and he called me, we had a little discussion on the phone he said, What kind of thing are you looking for?’ I said, ‘Can I send you an email?’ Got off the phone and I started writing this email with all my references, with all the songs I like, all the ideas I had, lyrics, the theme of it, the vibe of it.”
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When discussing the specific songs and artists that influenced it, Wilson revealed the one change he hopes to make to the song:
“There’s a Charli XCX and Billie Eilish song called ‘Guess’, it opens with ‘Hey Billie, are you there?’ That I loved, I really wanted that. So that was my first thing I wanted, I wanted the phone call, I wanted the ring, I wanted the pickup and I wanted ‘Hey Kit, are you there?’ I originally wanted it in an English voice, and I still would like it in an English voice. We’re American for now, but I think we’ll be ok with that.
“Then there was so many other influences, there’s another Charli XCX song called ‘Speed Drive’, which I really liked. ‘Like Jennie’ from BLACKPINK is very poppy, there’s a lot of girly pop music at the moment that’s come out, that’s just very catchy, very iconic, very chorus, chorus, chorus.
“Chappell Roan ‘Femininomenon’ very good song, that’s one I pushed for. There’s also some Harry Styles influence. 1975 was a big band that I liked, and Pretty Deadly actually used their song on the indies for a theme, ‘Love Me’, and there’s a guitar rift in that that we really liked, and I can kind of hear that in this song.
“JADE, who’s a UK artist, she put out a fantastic album this year, she used to be a in the band Little Mix, so there’s just so many references there, I sent them all, I timestamped the bits that I liked, the choruses, the here the there.”
“I’m always trying to give as much as I can so as much of me is there, and then they came back and gave me the first draft, it sounded great, a few tweaks, a few tweaks, a few tweaks and I feel like we hit it.
“I just wanted to put my best foot forward. I knew I wanted a female singer, I’ve always been big on that, and it just feels different, I wanted to make sure it was me, so as long as I had an opinion to give I was going to give it.”
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