For some reason, WWE loves to have live musical performances at WrestleMania. Maybe its because they are harkening back to the Rock n Wrestling Connection. And Skylar Grey and Kid Ink performed the officials Mania themes, so at least they were there for a purpose. However, nearly every concert performance at WrestleMania deserves the same criticism of being woefully out of place and a waste of time. Basically, unless youre playing a wrestler down to the ring such as Living Colour for CM Punk or Motorhead for Triple H you really dont have much of a reason to be performing at WrestleMania. If WWE was so hellbent on having a musician perform at WrestleMania, have it at the tail end of the kick-off show to welcome fans to Mania, not right in the middle of the event to completely kill the momentum.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
