Downstait Guitarist Says They Were ‘Thrown A Curveball’ Creating Former WWE Star’s New Theme

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Justin Call, the guitarist of Downstait, has reflected on the ‘curveball’ the band were thrown when creating a former WWE star’s new theme.

The American rock band are well remembered as the creators of WWE Champion Cody Rhodes’ theme “Kingdom”, among the many pro-wrestling entrance themes they also helped bring to life.

More recently, the band created a new post-WWE entrance theme for former Women’s Tag Team Champion Isla Dawn, who was released in February.

During a recent appearance on the Ropes N Riffs Podcast, Call looked back at the creative process behind “The Brightest One“, which you can listen to below.

Noting that it was nice to be thrown a curveball, Call explained:

“Our expectations were to do something darker. That’s what we were expecting to do, but in our initial conversation, she was just like, I love… I think it was like Radio Disney pop rock.

“She sent me a couple samples, I was like, ‘Wow, this is not where I thought we were going with this’, but it was nice to be thrown a curveball and to get to do something challenging and new.

“I think she was playing it close to the vest, so we just got the musical references, not a whole lot of character stuff.”

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Isla Dawn’s new entrance music was previewed on the Downstait Instagram account ahead of its August release, with Chrissy Borne providing vocals.

Following her WWE release, Dawn has returned to the independent scene and also had her AEW debut back in August.

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