Living Colour vocalist Corey Glover explained how CM Punk‘s use of Cult of Personality has benefitted the band over the years.
For the majority of his career, CM Punk has used Living Colour’s song Cult of Personality as his entrance theme. Lead vocalist Corey Glover recently spoke about Punk in an interview on the Drinks with Johnny podcast, explaining how cool it is that the star has used the song since he was a young upstart.
“I am now (a pro wrestling fan) now that (CM) Punk’s around. Yeah, sure.
And then to find out that this guy, who went from backyard to the WWE, WWF to back to (AEW) and then back to WWE and the whole time, he never let go of Cult of Personality as his entrance music, and the way he tells it was like, when he was in Little League in the suburbs of Chicago, the team’s entrance music was Cult of Personality. Evidently, they had a very progressive coach and he really dug the song. So he kept it his whole career.”
Glover also explained that WWE has to license the song for different occasions, and the band sees financial rewards every time it’s used.
“That kind of stuff keeps my children very happy. How about that? (Glover responded when asked about the business side of Cult of Personality being used by the company CM Punk is with) … Whatever pair of sneakers they want.
With the WWE, they license it for a particular point for a particular time… We’re licensing it for WrestleMania, we’re licensing it for Raw for a season. Because Punk is gonna be like the middle card on every place they play for this season and you know, there’s a fat check for it.”
“Car Payments Are Good Because Of CM Punk” – Living Colour Vocalist Corey Glover
CM Punk brought the song with him during his time in AEW from 2021-2023, and it came along once again when he made his shock return to WWE at Survivor Series. Glover pointed to the fact that after WWE was acquired by Endeavour, the company has a lot more money to play with when it comes to securing talent and licensing rights.
“They had it for a minute, yeah (Glover said about AEW using Cult of Personality), and I think once WWE, WWF got sold, I think the McMahons — once they sold, it’s like a huge, ridiculous amount of money.
There’s some ridiculous deal. They called back a bunch of people. Everybody but of course Chris Jericho because Chris (is with) AEW. But I’m sure he’ll be back soon too. We met Chris too. We did his podcast a couple years back…
Like I said, back in the day when Punk was first going to WWF, they were like, ‘Okay, so we’re gonna get you your own entrance music.’ He’s like, ‘No, I already have entrance music.’ He made it a point that I’m not changing my entrance music. Because they had their own music division of the WWF and they were gonna have somebody make up a song that sounded similar to Cult of Personality. But that was gonna be his entrance music. ‘No, I don’t want that. I want the real thing.’
He’s like one of the talent that actually got that in his contract that wherever he goes, that goes with him… Car payments are good because of CM Punk (he laughed).”
Punk did use Killswitch Engage’s song This Fire Burns from 2006-2011 during his time in WWE before switching back to Cult of Personality.
h/t POST Wrestling