Sami Zayn Doesn’t Miss Old Theme, Thought He Had It Too Long And It Was Hard To Dance To
Sami Zayn’s “Worlds Apart” theme became memorable as Zayn would come out fired up and dancing as it played.
With a character shift came a theme change for Zayn, and despite the popularity of the song, Zayn was excited to switch things up and thought it should have come sooner.
“No, I don’t [miss it],” Zayn told Alistair McGeorge of Metro. “Honestly, I wanted to change that song for a while. I thought I had it for too long – two years too long, maybe three years too long! [laughs]. Once I became a bad guy. I felt it should have switched right away. [Former WWE boss Vince McMahon] had a bit of a different mindset about it, which I see his point. It reached a point where it didn’t match the character anymore. Especially when I was doing the conspiracy stuff.”
He continued, “I have a soft spot for that Conspiracy Theory stuff because it was just so creatively stimulating at the time,’ he explained. ‘All this to say, the music – I thought it was really good for my time in NXT, it was really good for my time early up on the main roster. But then the character evolved, and as the character evolves I think that music – [Worlds Collide is] not even great music that can be applied to whatever. It can’t just go to any character, and as the character evolves – it felt very specific to that character, the plucky underdog.”
Zayn is currently part of The Bloodline and while he does have his own theme, he also enters to the Usos theme or Roman Reigns’ theme. For Zayn, the most important thing is dancing.
“The song that I used to come out was very anthemic. It was such a huge part of the character, and the fan interaction. So for sure, I’d be partial something that can engage the audience, that has that kind of football stadium thing that everyone can get involved in. I was like, oh man, I wanna come out to that song [Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough] now! I was come out and get all these people singing, ‘I just can’t get enough! I just can’t get enough!’ That’d be awesome, but I dunno if we can licence Depeche Mode or anything like that. But something that has that sort of quality to it, which is really hard to do with original music Something I can really dance to or commit to with my entrance. I think that’s an important quality too. My big problem with Worlds Apart was it actually very hard to dance to,” he said.
Zayn is currently an Honorary Uce, but Roman Reigns threatened to make him a full-time Uce, even changing his name to Sami Uso, if Jey Uso can’t get his act together and find his Ucey.
While making the media rounds, Sami discussed getting Bloodline members to crack up during segments. You can find his comments by clicking here.
