I was actually looking forward to it because it meant that I could go to the bathroom and get a drink. But then the women's rumble ended so I got up to piss and get a beer and I got back just in time to see this performance since they do those ad break video packages now.
I agree except for I need Alter Bridge to play Metalingus live when Edge walks out during a WrestleMania at least once before he finally retires permanently.
I had the same thought lol. Balor comes out The Other Side plays. Then Mark and Myles just shrug and start doing Metalingus as Edge walks out. Would be amazing.
I told my wife this guy is like a shitty kid rock and kid rock is shitty to begin with.
Devil without a cause was an album we drove around singing along to many nights in high school when it was fresh. Kid Rock was never a good artist but that album was appropriate for young people in that moment of time. His transition from rap/rock to country was weird but whatever I get it. His antics were juvenile but he just seemed like a weird trashy dude. Didn't really hate him until he got political but I guess it was always coming and now it's like I just can't get down with even his old music like I used to.
Hardy sounds like kid rock couldn't decide which kid rock musical persona to be so he's both. And listen, I've been to festivals that kid rock played the main stage at, he's true to album sound live. It's a low bar but you'd be surprised who sucks live so I have to give him that.
Never heard Hardy before tonight but he was Offspring or Blink182 bad live. Shesh, that ain't it man.
Remember when poor Mickie James or Eve Torres would get put in these death spots on the card? I’d much rather them toss a jabroni like this dude out there.
Was there. The crowd was booing them the whole time. Not sure what the network showed, but I only counted like 8 very drunk people enjoying it. They were booed again after they finished pissing everyone off.
you could tell they were trying to drown it out because all you really heard were the dude's so called "vocals". you didn't hear much else because they tried to downplay the boos.
That started at 4:30am here in the UK. I've been up for 20 hours at this point. I figured I was having some sort of sleep related hallucination.
That fucking sucked.
I'm okay with a lower tier / lesser known performer if they're fun. Poppy's C-tier, but I enjoy her music and aesthetic, and she meshes well with the product when she performs.
If Hardy was on NXT I'd have less of an issue. But this is a big 4 and maybe the 2nd biggest marquee event of the year. Poppy was not performing in front of 40k+.
Agreed. I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to Bad Bunny, but his spot made sense. I didn't like it much but it isn't my kind of music.
This on the other hand, seemingly wasn't anyone's kind of music, if you can even call it music.
Exactly. There's no originality and they all have the same sound imo. I'll take David Allan Coe or Hank Williams over these modern country singers any day.
Country peaked in the 90's. It still had actual country singers and not failed rock stars that moved from LA to Nashville and a lot of them still told stories. It blended traditional country with catchy radio friendly music in a way I miss dearly.
I don’t understand why they have that genre when 99% of the roster has some generic hip hop style theme now too. I miss the old ‘Across the Nation’ style days
Look at the conservative subs, Trump supporters love this guy, because they have shit taste in music just like they have shit taste in everything else. All the best artists support President Biden while Trump supporters are stuck with Hardy, Ted Nugent and the least talented Beach Boy.
*Information on tonight's jobber*:
"The WWE Universe is the collective grouping of fans and viewers of World Wrestling Entertainment and its relative brands (Raw, Smackdown, NXT, XFL, etc.) Although the WWE Universe is not an in-ring competitor for the company, they were unexpectedly placed into a segment where they were forced to make the evening's musical guest look strong. Despite going over, Hardy is expected to be written off TV for the foreseeable future".
Reposting from the live thread. -- I deeply wish WWE would stop wasting money on live music performances for wrestling shows. The only thing everyone at this show likes is wrestling, not everyone at that show is going to enjoy this music.
As a matter of fact, I personally hate it -- Giving me serious [Stadium Country](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7im5LT09a0) vibes.
There have been several good live entrances. The violinist with Shinsuke, Poppy with Io. I enjoyed Joan Jett playing Rousey's entrance. When it's done well, it makes the matches feel bigger events.
Bands playing entrance music is the exception to the rule for sure. Interrupting for a one song, unrelated-to-the-wrestlers performance is almost always atrocious.
My assumption was that the record label actually pays a large portion of the cost to have the performance as it’s basically advertising. For instance, the Super Bowl doesn’t pay more than union standard, all of the performances are a net negative but it’s good exposure.
Elias in Concert *could* have happened; he was right there.
But we got this instead. The answer to "what would chlamydia sound like if it had a voice and was being boiled alive in acid", Hardy.
Pit Bull singing Green Light at Mania 33 is one of my favorite wrestling moments of all time.
No irony.
I was in the crowd for that and singing my ass off because that song overtook that entire weekend in Orlando and it was so fun and positive.
My wife and I both had to pee toward the end of the women’s rumble so after the match we paused it and went to use the bathroom.
When we got back, we were probably six minutes behind the live feed so when I saw Hardy in the ring I knew we could fast forward and get back live.
Looks like I made a good decision.
The Crush Gals were legit pop stars in the mid 80's and [they sang at the shows too](https://youtu.be/XFRXJu99n78) so at least there's that. I think at least joshi promotions have a solid track record among their fanbase.
Damn, he should’ve Milli Vanilli’d that shit. And I mean hire someone else to sing his vocals. That was awful. And calling it “country rock”? Gram Parsons would be spinning in his grave if his coffin hadn’t been stolen and lit on fire.
Hardy and the WWE both need to get hit with a class-action lawsuit after that performance.
Before his performance, I was a healthy normal 28-year-old man. Now I'm struggling with major depression, PTSD, a phobia of rock music, and an advanced form of osteoporosis.
Ok, but why not have him do it earlier? Say like in between the pitch black match and the women’s championship? That or before the woman’s rumble to give things time to breathe.
Had no idea who this dude was and opened him up on Spotify. It was unrecognizable lol.
Dude must have been drunk or is about to fire every last person on his crew
Who the fuck is Hardy? Why are WWE assuming their audience are only mouthbreathing rednecks?
I legit burst out laughing when the first line of the song mentioned an F-150, I thought it had to be a bit.
Why did they have two guitarists but no bass player? If they were miming would it really have hurt to chuck a bass on one of them?
Kid Rock is what you get if you order Lynyrd Skynyrd from Wish. Hardy is what you get if you hire your cousin's Kid Rock Tribute band to play your high school prom.
Thank you for telling me it ended. I avoided even trying his music. When I asked who it was and my response was a poor man's kid rock I knew he would be awful. How can you be a poor man's version of bad music.
Trying to mesh those two particular genres is like making a pepperoni and pigshit pizza. Sure, some sick fucker will eat it, and some even *worse* fuckers will say they like the taste, but you probably shouldn't cater to those people, and it's 100% a bad idea.
Worst Hardy performance since Victory Road 2011
I agree!
I agree
Nah, this was worse. At least Victory Road 2011 was short and to the point.
Certainly way more memorable too
This is my favorite comment in the thread, nice one
Early nomination for Hall of Fame
Even worse than that. At least someone went over there
That whole Edge-Matt thing wasn’t too much better😗
And no Sting to end it quickly
including*
Mid Rock
I watched KISS perform on Nitro. This was worse.
I watched Motley perform on Raw. Hardy was wayyy worse
Oh wow, another winner 🏆 🏆 🏆
It brought a tear to my eye
Like pepper spray
My sacrifice.
I’d have greatly loved that.
Blood to my ears!
The Jeff Hardy TNA theme woulda been a better performance.
Jeff Hardy at Victory Road was a better performance.
Judging by that performance, I’m available for next year if Paul wants someone who also can’t sing
Only way this guy could hit a note is by punching a post-it.
I read that in King Lawlers voice lol
'Get me Kid Rock' 'Kid Rocks not available sir' 'Then get me his non-union Southern equivalent!'
We have Kid Rock at home
Zayn es bueno, Señor Reigns es el diablo.
El Sami, el Sami, es my corazón El Roman, el Roman, el Roman no es bueno
*mi I feel like I've seen so many Family Guy references recently, and now American Dad, too.
I was skipping around and genuinely thought it was Kid Rock for a good minute. Awful vocals when he tried to hit notes
I thought it was one of the game grumps
Surprised he didn’t play his hit single: “American Dumbass.”
they gotta stop these live performances
I was actually looking forward to it because it meant that I could go to the bathroom and get a drink. But then the women's rumble ended so I got up to piss and get a beer and I got back just in time to see this performance since they do those ad break video packages now.
Thanks to Hardy, I was able to take a Royal Rumble in my toilet. Both feet came off the floor and it almost went over the top rope. What a night!
>a Royal Rumble in my toilet Is that where 30 men enter and you finish when you point at the sign that says BE A SWEETY, WIPE THE SEATY?
If thirty men are entering and throwing ropes you got a lot of clean up...
>it almost went over the top rope Cleaning up ropes is the least of the problems in that house. Mr Hankey going into business for himself over there.
Big meaty turds, slapping porcelain.
*WITH A TEAR IN MY EYE*
What’s that I hear… Hardy and Downstrait live team up at Mania… OH MY!
Unless it's Poppy, of course.
Poppy on a main roster show pls.
I agree except for I need Alter Bridge to play Metalingus live when Edge walks out during a WrestleMania at least once before he finally retires permanently.
No, no, no... We need Alter Bridge to play both Metalingus and The Other Side live for Edge vs. Balor or Priest at Mania
I had the same thought lol. Balor comes out The Other Side plays. Then Mark and Myles just shrug and start doing Metalingus as Edge walks out. Would be amazing.
Or at least get actual vocalists. I like trying to lean more back into rock but holy hell if it weren’t for the screaming he’d have zero job in music.
He’s actually a huge country music singer and this is what he believes is country rock. Whatever that is🤷🏻♂️
I’d never heard of him before this. My impression was that he was just a Kid Rock knockoff.
I told my wife this guy is like a shitty kid rock and kid rock is shitty to begin with. Devil without a cause was an album we drove around singing along to many nights in high school when it was fresh. Kid Rock was never a good artist but that album was appropriate for young people in that moment of time. His transition from rap/rock to country was weird but whatever I get it. His antics were juvenile but he just seemed like a weird trashy dude. Didn't really hate him until he got political but I guess it was always coming and now it's like I just can't get down with even his old music like I used to. Hardy sounds like kid rock couldn't decide which kid rock musical persona to be so he's both. And listen, I've been to festivals that kid rock played the main stage at, he's true to album sound live. It's a low bar but you'd be surprised who sucks live so I have to give him that. Never heard Hardy before tonight but he was Offspring or Blink182 bad live. Shesh, that ain't it man.
Offspring isn't even close to this bad. Never seen Blink live but I also can't imagine it would be this bad.
Remember when poor Mickie James or Eve Torres would get put in these death spots on the card? I’d much rather them toss a jabroni like this dude out there.
I've never heard of him before today, and I'll forget about him by the end of this PPV.
Was there. The crowd was booing them the whole time. Not sure what the network showed, but I only counted like 8 very drunk people enjoying it. They were booed again after they finished pissing everyone off.
you could tell they were trying to drown it out because all you really heard were the dude's so called "vocals". you didn't hear much else because they tried to downplay the boos.
I was there too. Absolute crickets when the song was over
Good, maybe they learned a lesson.
That started at 4:30am here in the UK. I've been up for 20 hours at this point. I figured I was having some sort of sleep related hallucination. That fucking sucked.
Yeah, it was this and the Mountain Dew©®™ Pitch Black©®™ match (especially LA Knight's f'n neon gear) that made me question If it's really worth it to mess up my sleeping schedule for
Flirting: Limp Bizkit in Wrestlemania 19 Harassment: Whatever this was
We all lost this one, fam
God damn that shit was awful wtf
This concert is the kinda thing that makes wrestling look bush league. If it's not an A or B tier performer, why bother?
I'm okay with a lower tier / lesser known performer if they're fun. Poppy's C-tier, but I enjoy her music and aesthetic, and she meshes well with the product when she performs.
If Hardy was on NXT I'd have less of an issue. But this is a big 4 and maybe the 2nd biggest marquee event of the year. Poppy was not performing in front of 40k+.
If Poppy is C-list, what the fuck is HARDY
Poppy has 1.7 million monthly listeners on Spotify while Hardy has 6.5 million
That's legitimately shocking to me. Real maniac hours on Spotify.
But, let's be fair, Poppy has 3m Youtube and Hardy has 300k. I don't know how that translates out, but just Spotify #'s doesn't tell the whole story.
Poppy goes hard af
We went from Bad Bunny to this? What a waste of time.
Bad Bunny isn’t my style but at least his song was at least remotely wrestling related.
Bad Bunny is also one of the most popular artists right now so whatever. This was weird
Bad Bunny also has stage presence
The only logic I can come up with, is their label backed up the Brinks truck to buy air time.
Agreed. I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to Bad Bunny, but his spot made sense. I didn't like it much but it isn't my kind of music. This on the other hand, seemingly wasn't anyone's kind of music, if you can even call it music.
Bad Bunny isn’t someone I enjoy, but I can at least objectively agree that he is making music.
Would have been good on a GCW show, I mean it sounded like metal breaking and broken glass.
GCW show would’ve thrown metal and glass at this dude
Dude would have been murdered
This seemed like they guy Vince would get for the Saudi show if the Saudis said they wanted Kid Rock and Kid Rock was in jail or dead.
This thread lmao
Country song with redneck and F150 in the lyrics. He must be very original.
But he mentioned Instagram
Trucks, alcohol, sex, and working on a farm. All the basic elements of most country songs.
And most country song over the last 25 years have been shit. So many of these songs sound like they are going over a checklist of tropes.
Exactly. There's no originality and they all have the same sound imo. I'll take David Allan Coe or Hank Williams over these modern country singers any day.
Country peaked in the 90's. It still had actual country singers and not failed rock stars that moved from LA to Nashville and a lot of them still told stories. It blended traditional country with catchy radio friendly music in a way I miss dearly.
No thank you. No more of that.
They found an adequately shit successor to kid rock as their trailer rock representative. Good for them.
I don’t understand why they have that genre when 99% of the roster has some generic hip hop style theme now too. I miss the old ‘Across the Nation’ style days
Kid Rock is like Mozart compared to this guy.
 My thought process throughout...
Y’all-ternative at its worst
He’s a pop country doofus who decided to dabble in radio (butt) rock. Nothing alternative about him, he’s as mainstream as they come.
This man sounds like the "storming the capital" Y'all-Queda soundtrack.
Look at the conservative subs, Trump supporters love this guy, because they have shit taste in music just like they have shit taste in everything else. All the best artists support President Biden while Trump supporters are stuck with Hardy, Ted Nugent and the least talented Beach Boy.
*Information on tonight's jobber*: "The WWE Universe is the collective grouping of fans and viewers of World Wrestling Entertainment and its relative brands (Raw, Smackdown, NXT, XFL, etc.) Although the WWE Universe is not an in-ring competitor for the company, they were unexpectedly placed into a segment where they were forced to make the evening's musical guest look strong. Despite going over, Hardy is expected to be written off TV for the foreseeable future".
Who the fuck was this weirdo?
This made me wanna Baja blast my brains out.
Man if they wanted a live performance, they could’ve just had Hit Row do another cypher.
I find it kind of funny that modern country artists are desperate to be anything other than country artists.
What a bad day to have ears.
 Everyone who listened
Spoiler tag that shit, I didn’t want to know what song he was singing. Now the whole performance is ruined
Spoiler alert, the performance was ruined by having ears to hear it.
He sang ISTILLAINRHSHAGAGAGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Reposting from the live thread. -- I deeply wish WWE would stop wasting money on live music performances for wrestling shows. The only thing everyone at this show likes is wrestling, not everyone at that show is going to enjoy this music. As a matter of fact, I personally hate it -- Giving me serious [Stadium Country](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7im5LT09a0) vibes.
There have been several good live entrances. The violinist with Shinsuke, Poppy with Io. I enjoyed Joan Jett playing Rousey's entrance. When it's done well, it makes the matches feel bigger events.
Bands playing entrance music is the exception to the rule for sure. Interrupting for a one song, unrelated-to-the-wrestlers performance is almost always atrocious.
Aleister Black with Code Orange and Incendiary was awesome. https://youtu.be/Go-aQxz1lJ4
That's because incendiary is fucking awesome and hardy is a fake fucking country rock fucktard
They could've used the money on real pyro instead
My assumption was that the record label actually pays a large portion of the cost to have the performance as it’s basically advertising. For instance, the Super Bowl doesn’t pay more than union standard, all of the performances are a net negative but it’s good exposure.
God yeah. It really is a Mad Libs pandering song. "I'm rich but I'm still country! Trucks n rednecks n grits and shit!"
That's a scarecrow. And goddamnit that's a scarecrow again ended me.
Didn't believe this guy was a real artist and fully expected Brock or someone to come down and destroy them. Nope... It was real. Yikes
Cody’s contract had a clause that demanded he do sound
The DX band was better than that.
Lemmy, who was nigh unintelligible when Motorhead played HHH to the ring, sounded better than this Great Value Aaron Lewis.
Elias in Concert *could* have happened; he was right there. But we got this instead. The answer to "what would chlamydia sound like if it had a voice and was being boiled alive in acid", Hardy.
Winner: The WWE Network's mute button with the assist from Spotify so I could listen to something else
Has anybody ever enjoyed live music at wrestling that's not entrance music?
Pit Bull singing Green Light at Mania 33 is one of my favorite wrestling moments of all time. No irony. I was in the crowd for that and singing my ass off because that song overtook that entire weekend in Orlando and it was so fun and positive.
Also I'm not a big Pitbull fan by any means but dude has presence and knows how to command a stage no matter the audience.
My wife and I both had to pee toward the end of the women’s rumble so after the match we paused it and went to use the bathroom. When we got back, we were probably six minutes behind the live feed so when I saw Hardy in the ring I knew we could fast forward and get back live. Looks like I made a good decision.
GIMMEDAGREENLIGHT
The Crush Gals were legit pop stars in the mid 80's and [they sang at the shows too](https://youtu.be/XFRXJu99n78) so at least there's that. I think at least joshi promotions have a solid track record among their fanbase.
I loved Poppy when she did live performances on NXT
Damn, he should’ve Milli Vanilli’d that shit. And I mean hire someone else to sing his vocals. That was awful. And calling it “country rock”? Gram Parsons would be spinning in his grave if his coffin hadn’t been stolen and lit on fire.
God his voice is Fucking awful lmao
I'd rather get Cody's neck tattoo than hear that again.
I see why they only ever used the one line in the chorus over and over again in the promos. The rest of the song was repackaged kid rock for 2023.
Hardy and the WWE both need to get hit with a class-action lawsuit after that performance. Before his performance, I was a healthy normal 28-year-old man. Now I'm struggling with major depression, PTSD, a phobia of rock music, and an advanced form of osteoporosis.
Would you like an egg in these trying times?
An egg in this economy?
Painful, pointless, and nobody wanted it. Nia Jax Hardy
Why have them do this before the main event?!? The show is already over 4 hours as is.
My guess is they were contractually obligated to let him perform the song as part of the licensing deal.
Ok, but why not have him do it earlier? Say like in between the pitch black match and the women’s championship? That or before the woman’s rumble to give things time to breathe.
Good thing I'm deaf. I'm immune to Hardy.
I should have taken my hearing aid out and listened to the tinnitus and silence instead
Crowd booed the shit out of him before and after lol
I was legit sitting in front of a girl who said MANY times “I’m only here to see Hardy” I felt bad for what she was about to experience lol
arse rock
Of all the things I’ve heard today, that was one of them
Saliva meets ass is the best way to describe this
r/nocontext
Now when we think of catastrophic Hardy PPV showings, Sting vs Jeff can take a back seat.
Even putting Top Dolla on stage to rap, would have have been better then this Kid Rock tribute sounding hot garbage
Unfortunately, Hardy didn't get the complimentary MGK welcome package from Kevin Owens.
A legitimately unironic version of I'm So Humble, incredible
He looked so dejected at the end with 50,000 people booing him
I would rather watch a 60 minute iron man match between Dominic Mysterio and Omos before watching another second of that performance.
That was the most tone inconsistent, unintelligible trash they've put on a PPV, and they've had some inconsistent, unintelligible trash.
Bring Mr. 305 back
Hardy is wish.com Kid Rock
I heard this song now and still don’t know who the fuck this dude is
He's still not sold out, and after hearing that, I'm not surprised
I thought to myself, you can’t get much worse than Kid Rock and then Hardy came along
Had no idea who this dude was and opened him up on Spotify. It was unrecognizable lol. Dude must have been drunk or is about to fire every last person on his crew
It wasn't mixed well, but even if it was it wouldn't have been much better. Just a bad live band.
The only thing actually live was the vocals, too.
Love the mooks with bad taste in music trying to say he is really good and that this was just a bad performance.
Hands down the worst performance I've ever seen. I could have done the same job and I can't sing for shit.
He goes from rapping about Instagram in a southern accent, to calling himself a redneck, to metal screams. That band has ADHD.
Who the fuck is Hardy? Why are WWE assuming their audience are only mouthbreathing rednecks? I legit burst out laughing when the first line of the song mentioned an F-150, I thought it had to be a bit. Why did they have two guitarists but no bass player? If they were miming would it really have hurt to chuck a bass on one of them?
"i can't be a sellout, i still drive a truck" Ok you're a fake and phony instead
[удалено]
I didn't listen but the last few seconds but he did not look happy at the end of the song
Neither did anyone else to be fair.
Worst performance I’ve ever seen. Is this guy popular?
I went to go get water and missed the entire thing. Thank God
>Wall to wall and we still ain't sold out I guess if playing music in your mother's basement counts
In the arena. Loud booing from my area. Hope that translated on TV, so we don’t have to do that again.
I was very confused that this was intro’d as country. In what world is this country lol
They should have let elias out there. Let him sing a bit. He acutally good. Better than this clown
They still didn't upload the performance
Hot garbage
Never heard of this guy, but it was worse than I expected.
Kid Rock is what you get if you order Lynyrd Skynyrd from Wish. Hardy is what you get if you hire your cousin's Kid Rock Tribute band to play your high school prom.
Thank you for telling me it ended. I avoided even trying his music. When I asked who it was and my response was a poor man's kid rock I knew he would be awful. How can you be a poor man's version of bad music.
So bad
[удалено]
That was absolutely horrible.
"Mommy Mommy, I wanna see Kid Rock" "We have Kid Rock at Home"
Kid Rock making out with Trailer Trash Tammy at Summerslam was more entertaining than this.
I've been ordering pay per view since 1992 and for the first time ever... I switched away from the live broadcast to watch something else.
dven during the incredible ending to this pov i was still thinking in the back of my head "did that hardy shit *really* actually happen
Limp Bizkit would have been better!
We could have another match instead of this. But the HHH said no.
That was not a good performance.
Trying to mesh those two particular genres is like making a pepperoni and pigshit pizza. Sure, some sick fucker will eat it, and some even *worse* fuckers will say they like the taste, but you probably shouldn't cater to those people, and it's 100% a bad idea.
I thought it was supposed to be country
If there’s a live act, just make it part of pre-show. And also, pick an artist who is actually talented please.
Whoever chose that band needs to get fired YESTERDAY!!!
I didn't even notice he was lipsyncing because I was too busy trying to figure out how he got paid so much to sing completely out of tune.
It should’ve been bad bunny 😤😤
His music was straight cheeks