The occasions, they’re changin’ for “Monday Night Football.” Can you are feeling it within the air?
“Monday Night Football” unveiled a brand new theme music introducing the venerable professional soccer fixture. The pregame music debuted earlier than each of Monday evening’s NFL video games, The Athletic reported. Chris Stapleton, Snoop Dogg and Cindy Blackman Santana’s model of Phil Collins’ moody 1981 hit, “In the Air Tonight,” was aired on ESPN earlier than the Carolina Panthers hosted the New Orleans Saints in an NFL South matchup at 7 p.m.
The new anthem additionally was performed on ABC main into Monday’s sport between longtime AFC North rivals Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
The NFL held off on its new theme music for one week, declining to play it earlier than the Jets-Bills as a result of the sport was performed on the twenty second anniversary of the September 11 terrorist assaults, SBNation reported.
The music will play earlier than each ESPN sport aside from the Week 4 sport in London between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Atlanta Falcons as a result of kickoff is at 9:30 a.m. EDT, USA Today reported.
Stapleton sang the lyrics whereas Snoop Dogg contributed “football-centric rap verses,” based on USA Today. Blackman Santana provides the distinctive drum beat that was a staple of Collins’ authentic model.
Crafting the brand new theme music was a problem, video producer Rico Labbe informed the newspaper.
“We just wanted to make sure we heard everybody’s voices – whether it was the fans’ voices, whether it was the artists’ voices, whether it was staying true to the ‘Monday Night Football’ brand over the years,” Labbe mentioned. “We just wanted to make sure we meshed all that together. It could be a challenge. But we think we hit the sweet spot.”
Stapleton, 45, sang the nationwide anthem in February earlier than Super Bowl LVII, SBNation reported.
The new theme music is barely the fifth “official” lead-in to “Monday Night Football” because the present’s debut in 1970.
“Score” by Bob’s Band, performed from 1970 to 1975, based on SBNation.
“Heavy Action” by Johnny Pearson was the intro from 1976 to 1988.
Many followers of “MNF” grew up listening to Hank Williams Jr.’s rocking nation model lead into the sport with the catchline “Are you ready for some footbaaaall?”
The music was a reworked model of Williams’ 1984 hit, “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight,” The Athletic reported.
“Heavy Action” returned in 2011 and ran by way of 2016, based on SBNation. Williams and his rowdy buddies made a comeback from 2017 till 2019.
In 2020 and 2021, the intro was “Rip It Up” by Little Richard, that includes Butcher Brown.
The authentic “Rip It Up” was launched in 1956 and held the No. 1 spot for 2 weeks on the R&B charts, based on The Athletic.
“Heavy Action” returned in 2022, however in a remix carried out by Marshmello, the information outlet reported.
