WWE: Roman Reigns getting a new theme song soon?

Since The Shield initially severed ties in early 2014, fans have leveled many complaints toward Roman Reigns’ presentation as a singles star. One of the many that flew under the radar was the continued use of a version of The Shields’s “Special Op” entrance music, as combined with Reigns entering arenas through the crowd and wearing his signature bulletproof vest, fans viewed it as a transparently lazy way for him to retain much of the cool factor the trio had built up.

Now entrenched as WWE’s top heel in 2021, Reigns has left behind much of what defined him as one-third of The Shield and as the company’s top babyface for the better part of five years. His “The Truth Reigns” theme song is the last vestige of his time with that popular trio, but “The Tribal Chief” might be shedding that, too.

Is Roman Reigns getting a new song to match his heel persona?

In an interview with Bleacher Report (written by our own Graham Matthews), Reigns said that WWE is indeed working on getting the current Universal Champion some new music (h/t to Fightful’s Jeremy Lambert for the transcription):

"“We’re working on it. It’s not easy because I’m not going to… With this character, it has to be the right vibe. We can’t just hire a rapper and check out this guitar riff. It can’t be some rock music. The Shield music, I wasn’t even really into it back in the day; but over the years, it just started working. You get so used to it that I just time my pace to it. But yeah, it takes some time and it has to be right. In order to move away from something you’ve had for so long and is so recognizable like the music that I have now, it’s got to be perfect. It’s taking some time, but we’re definitely working on it, so please be patient.”"

Reigns gave no exact timetable for when this new music would debut, but when it does, fans can only hope that he gets a cool theme song right out of the gate like Big E did and not a generic one like Keith Lee’s initial main roster track.