I want something elimanated right now

[Guest Dangerous A]

I want the stupid entrance music to not come on when someone comes out to confront someone during a promo or skit. Entrance music should be limited to entrance for a wrestling match. Whenever I enter a group of people or a convo, music doesn't start up for me. It comes off as contrived and stupid when up to 4 different people come out for a skit and four different themes come on. It's dumb. Plus both shows are guilty of this. Why not eliminate this dumber than anything practice from at least one of the shows? At least one. It's things like that that make both shows look exactly the same. There isn't really a difference in the shows except that SD has better workers and matches. The storylines are still the same and the same stupid shit like lame backstage skits, entrance music for ANY AND EVERY time someone makes an entrance, and McMahon o Mania running wild are reasons marks don't see the shows as different.

 

 

Sorry for the rant, but let's get rid of the entrance music for promo's and in ring skits, eh? I'll even compromise and say that the first person out can have entrance music. I just think it looks incredibly stupid when the next 3-5 people that are coming out also have to have their music played. Just come out and say what you're going to say.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Hey man, I'm with you on that. What bugs me most is when they play it for a run in. Does the guy just say "Cue up my music, I'm going to suprise this guy and kick his ass."

[Guest Dangerous A]

That is also annoying as piss. I know I'm supposed to suspend disbelief when watching wrestling, but that is stretching it. Stone Cold was especially notorious for that.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Yeah, it bothers me too.

[Guest The Old Me]

Whenever I enter a group of people or a convo, music doesn't start up for me.

That's because you're not cool, like me.

 

*wife is cooking dinner at home*

wife-I think I'll make some meatloaf tonight.

 

*music hits*

 

TIME TO PLAY THE ME

TIME TO PLAY THE NEW ME

DUH DUH DUH, DUH DUH DUH

 

I want BBQ chicken and I want it now, or it's your ass!

 

wife- but...

 

*levels wife with frying pan while music plays loudly in the kitchen*

 

 

ahh, this is my life.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

I liked how Stone Cold's music would hit before he did a run in. Mostly so I'd regain conciousness and start paying attention again.

 

You are right though that it happens to much. I don't think it should be eliminated all together but it should be reduced by like 90%.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I agree fully. Only play the entrance when they are scheduled to come out (for a match or interview or whatever). Unexpected entrances should not have music played.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

This is actually a problem that plagues the very core of WWE programming.

 

That is to say, scheduling.

 

I mean, how do they have room for these "unexpected" matches? Do they just plan 2 or 3 matches a night, and leave the rest "open"? That seems very unprofessional to me.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Ahhh, entrance music played before the wrestler comes out. I hate it too. I'm guessing the WWE's reasoning is this:

 

Excitement of music keeps unattentive people hooked to the channel>complete destruction of kayfabe this practise causes

[Guest MixxMaster]

I hate that, and also the playing the music after the post-match stuff. I can understand playing the winner's music, but then to play someone else's who chases the heels off after a post-match beatdown, or the heels' music if they are victorious after the said beatdown...

 

It's total oversaturation, and is just another sign of the shortening attention spans of today's fans.

 

Ideally, It would be great to go a bit old-school for the promos. Don't do it in the ring, do it on the stage, with an interviewer. NO Titan-Trons, NO music. it would give at least an extra minute for the promos, and would also make the entrance music a bit more important.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

I must be the only one who disagrees. The music makes for that "oh what the..." moment. Plus it makes it easier to interrupt the person. Which is the whole reason they do it!!!

 

They use their music to interrupt the person talking with style.

[Guest JMTapes]

I remember at Mania VIII when Warrior did the run-in, they played the music for him. Unheard of at that time.

[Guest Downhome]

It's overdone in this day and age, but I will say that there is a time for it to be done.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

I do agree that it's over-done.

 

Which is why I liked the last Smackdown tapings that I went to. It was the night that Benjamin and Haas, then Team Angle, won the tag team titles. Also that night was that Benoit/Angle TV match after their Royal Rumble encounter...post match, Team Angle (all three) were beating up on Benoit...Edge comes out to NO MUSIC...gets beaten up...then LESNAR comes out to NO MUSIC...and it just seemed to work. Spur of the moment thing and such. And the reaction was still damn good.

 

EDIT: Oh, and then Edge did the Brock Happy Dance, which gave me a chuckle.

[Guest Vyce]

I want them to end the goddamn commercials in mid-match.

 

It pisses me off. We're only fortunate enough to get 2 or 3 matches longer than 4 minutes a show, and you have to break those up too?

[Guest Ingram Paladin]

Off Topic:

 

O'Haire main eventing Wrestlemania?

 

Muhaha.

 

Riiight.

[Guest Redhawk]

Entrance music to interrupt a promo is good some times, but other times it's over-done. For example, back in 2000 when Linda McMahon had just said that Stone Cold would be in Rock's corner at Backlash. The HHH Gang came out to no music to express their anger, and it worked because it seemed spontaneous. Then after everyone started brawling, The Rock's music hit, and the crowd went off. If that same segment were done today, we'd get Linda's music, separate entrances for HHH, Steph and Shane, Stone Cold's music after Linda said his name, then Rock's music.

 

As far as the commercial breaks, I think that's their (lame) way of trying to make matches seem longer and more grueling.

[Detective Comics 0]

I must be the only one who disagrees. The music makes for that "oh what the..." moment. Plus it makes it easier to interrupt the person. Which is the whole reason they do it!!!

 

They use their music to interrupt the person talking with style.

I gotta agree with you on this one. If not, the person would have to come out with a mic and interupt while walking down the ramp... someone like Kevin Nash could get a serious injury during that period of time.

 

Plus, when the music hits, sometime the wrestler does not enter, but the music is a distraction to attack the foe from behind.

[Guest DerangedHermit]

I must be the only one who disagrees.  The music makes for that "oh what the..." moment.  Plus it makes it easier to interrupt the person.  Which is the whole reason they do it!!!

 

They use their music to interrupt the person talking with style.

 

 

Plus, when the music hits, sometime the wrestler does not enter, but the music is a distraction to attack the foe from behind.

Example: 50% of Jericho or Christian's beatdowns

[Guest The Czech Republic]

Whenever I enter a group of people or a convo, music doesn't start up for me.

Well maybe for you it doesn't.

[Guest Korgath]

I must be the only one who disagrees. The music makes for that "oh what the..." moment. Plus it makes it easier to interrupt the person. Which is the whole reason they do it!!!

 

They use their music to interrupt the person talking with style.

I'm also with you on this one.

 

You think Stone Cold, The Rock, heck, even the Road Dogg got over not only because of their natural charisma, but also because the first few seconds of the entrance theme is instantly recognizable and people mark out when they hear it.

 

Hell, even Steiner's entrance theme fits that category, except he's blown his chance of EVER getting over with the marks.

[Guest Slapnuts00]

I agree they should end the "guy's music plays when he's interefering". It's way over done. They can keep it for rebuttles in interview segments. It's concievable that they're expecting a response and have the music cued up I suppose.

I know when I was younger and a complete mark who though everything was real, it was one thing that always bothered me. I always rationalized that the sound guy was sitting behind the curtain with a switchboard with everyone's theme and when someone passed by him he would hit their music.

[Guest Korgath]

I know when I was younger and a complete mark who though everything was real, it was one thing that always bothered me. I always rationalized that the sound guy was sitting behind the curtain with a switchboard with everyone's theme and when someone passed by him he would hit their music.

*uttercompleteshock* You, you mean... that's not how it's done? *uttercompleteshock*

 

I must admit I thought the very same thing, till the internet. Or was it "growing up"?

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

It never bothered me because the music playing offered mark out moments when a favorite wrestler came out.

 

I just figured they walked by the gorilla position anway they probably just said, "hey hit my music!"

[Guest NoCalMike]

No reason everyone needs their music played. On the same note, no reason a "run-in" can be seen as a suprise if the music hits. I mean that is so lame. I agree with DA.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

I must be the only one who would just not feel the impact if there were no music when they came out.

 

During interviews that is, I agree about run ins during matches should NOT have music. UNLESS it's a returning superstar that's been gone for awhile. (I.E. Taker's return at Judgment Day 2000)

[Guest MissMattitude]

One of my pet peeves is when someone wins a match and then recieves a beat down, you sometimes get someone who comes out to clean house and then [his] music plays when he wasn't even in the match.

 

I also hate the adverts during a match, it completely puts you off... it's not as bad as have adverts in Formula 1 however.

 

I like having entrance music if someone is interrupting someone else. I hate it when there music sometimes gets played after a backstage interview.

[The Dames 0]

Not to say that TNA is better than WWE at all, but probably because of the small size of the arena they NEVER play the music of someone interfering in matches and it definitely tends to help the shock value.

 

Case in point, Christopher Daniels attack on Jeff Jarrett this week. If his music had started up first, it wouldn't have had nearly the same effect.

 

Dames

[Guest Choken One]

Dames and His Tna...Always quick to put it over

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I hate that, and also the playing the music after the post-match stuff. I can understand playing the winner's music, but then to play someone else's who chases the heels off after a post-match beatdown, or the heels' music if they are victorious after the said beatdown...

 

This doesn't bother me too much, because at least the guy is visible and it makes sense that all the sound guy has to do is push the correct button.