Summary

Becky Lynch said the decision to change her WWE entrance music came from feeling that her old theme no longer matched who she had become. While speaking with Chris Van Vliet, Lynch said the previous song had not felt right for years and described the process of getting a new track approved as more complicated than she expected.

Lynch said The Wonder Years frontman Dan Campbell immediately embraced the idea after she reached out. She also said the finished song hit her on a personal level because of references to her family, including a lyric tied to her late father.

The change also fits a broader trend in WWE presentation, especially after other talent have discussed similar adjustments to their on-screen identities, including Stephanie Vaquer explaining why WWE changed her entrance theme.

Becky Lynch and WWE presentation

For Lynch, this was not just a new piece of entrance music. She said the old song felt too upbeat for where she is now, which makes the new theme part of a larger refresh in how she wants to be presented. That matters because entrance music is one of the clearest signals of a wrestler's character, and Lynch made it clear she wanted something that felt more personal and more current.

Her comments also showed that even a star at Lynch's level still had to push for a specific creative choice. By her own account, getting the song through WWE involved multiple calls and disagreements before it was finally approved.

Quotes

The interview exchange unfolded as follows:

**Van Vliet:** "I have to say I'm a huge pop punk fan, so The Wonder Years doing your theme song, amazing."

**Lynch:** "I love it. When Dan, he first started off by telling me the lyrics. There was a few tears as well."

**Van Vliet:** "What lyrics hit you?"

**Lynch:** "Well, the lyric about my dad, which is, 'I talk to your ghost every night in my sleep.' It's a reference to my dad and, you know, he has little easter eggs about 'they'll rue the day' and 'burn it down' and watch something better grow, like it's all little references to my family. Yeah, so got me good. Then I heard it all together, and I was like, Oh, damn."

**Van Vliet:** "How did that come together? Because not a lot of WWE Superstars get an outside band to be able to do their theme song."

**Lynch:** "It was a bit of a struggle. I was thinking of coming back, and I was like, you know, I just don't feel like my entrance music represents me anymore, probably didn't represent me for about seven years, didn't feel it. It always felt too happy-go-lucky, so I reached out to Dan Campbell from The Wonder Years, and I was like, 'If I can get it through, is there any chance you guys would be interested in writing me a new theme song?' Instantly, he wrote back, yes, hell yes, and he got to work, and I was like, okay, but let me just clear it through Hunter. They have ways of doing things where they want their guys to write the song and then the other band does the cover. Dan was already too far gone, and I was already too in love with his song that it ended up being a whole thing. But we got it done. There was a lot of phone calls and a few fights. So we got it done."

**Van Vliet:** "You were already friends with The Wonder Years. How did that come about?"

**Lynch:** "From Colby, aka Seth Rollins, my hot husband. I wasn't really in on the pop punk scene at all. I'm mostly a 90s grunge kid and 70s rock and The Beatles and Dylan, you know, that's kind of what I tend to listen to. He would play his music, and most of the time I was like, Oh, God, these lads with their whiny, nasally voices. Then he puts on The Wonder Years, and The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me came on. I was like, Oh, damn that, that guy's voice, oh, this band. Then he played me more and I was like, oh, I love this guy. Then we were supposed to get married in 2020, the pandemic happened and all that. For the day that we were supposed to get married, Colby surprised me with having Dan make a cover of a song Fala Amo by Bring Me the Horizon, which is a song that Colby played me when we were first getting together, then Dan did the cover, and it was all lights out, and that became our wedding song. You may have seen on Unreal, we put the phone in a bowl, and that was the one song that we had at our wedding."

Sources

Becky Lynch while speaking with Chris Van Vliet