So we had this track and we shared it with Carrie, with the publicity people and with the agency, CAA. We're working with him and talking it through. We were just feeling it out and working with one of producers, Chris DeStefano, who's a big country producer and did some of her No. And then Carrie Underwood apparently thought it'd be cool to bring Joanie in. Of course I loved it, and Joan was cool with it. And then Fred called us this year and said they want to bring it back. They didn't use our song for three years. So, this year, Joan finally agreed to be on camera for the Sunday Night Football video. She is political in her own way, but she's a Yankee Doodle. They're not necessarily anti-establishment.Įxactly. But Joanie is an all-American, and her songs are, too. You don't associate that because the punk movement maybe wasn't looked at that way. I liken it to Elvis when he went into the service. This year, Nike used "Bad Reputation" as the theme for their Women's World Cup thing. She doesn't make a big fuss about things like that. She sang the National Anthem when Cal Ripken tied Lou Gehrig's record. They gave us a citation for that in the early 2000s, but she doesn't do publicity around it. First of all, Joan quietly was the noncombatant who was in more war zones than anybody else for 15 years. It's interesting that Joan, known as a punk rocker, would become the anchor for this really patriotic, sports-focused program. And then they brought in Carrie Underwood. There's a version of "Bad Reputation" they did in Nashville it does sound like a country song when it's done by country people. That was a thrill for me because I'm a closet country fan anyway, and I've always felt like some of our songs are country-type songs. Pink did the first version of the song, right? The thought of being on a network television open-it just didn't fit in her head. To me, she's become a regular celebrity, but in her head she's still a punk rocker with the Germs and the Sex Pistols. You've got to do it." Fred actually offered Joan to be on television, but that's not really a Joanie thing. There's nothing more American than what they're offering you. That seems a little strange." But I'm like, "Joanie, listen to me. When Fred started doing Sunday Night Football on NBC, he came to our office with the idea of using the melody of "I Hate Myself for Loving You." Now, Joan's a purist, so originally she was like, "I don't know about that. Joan was very popular in extreme sports-to this day, she's popular with skateboarders. We did two of the first four theme songs for the X Games. He was behind the X Games, which in our world was a pretty cool thing. Can you believe it? The producer of Sunday Night Football is Fred Gaudelli. How did Joan get involved at the beginning? Muse: Hard to believe Sunday Night Football started 13 years ago.
Muse spoke with Kenny Laguna-Jett's longtime producer, songwriting partner and partner in their label, Blackheart Records-about her longtime association with SNF, working with Underwood on the new version of the song, and what it means to Joan to have been awarded this year's Clio Music Lifetime Achievement Award. The 61-year-old music legend worked with her own band, and with Underwood, on a rocking new version of the tune, and even-somewhat surprisingly-agreed to appear on camera with Underwood for the open. Underwood sang "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" from 2013 to 2015 before switching to her own song "Oh, Sunday Night" in 20, and then "Game On" last season.įor this year's 100th anniversary of the NFL, NBC's producers wanted to return to the classic "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night." And now, for the first time, Jett herself has been involved. And then the job went to Carrie Underwood, who had won American Idol in 2005-just a year before SNF's premiere. Faith Hill took over from 2007 until 2012. Indeed, "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" has since become an anthem in its own right. The melody of Jett's 1988 hit "I Hate Myself for Loving You" was used for the show's musical open-with rewritten lyrics that would themselves become famous. 6, 2006, it was the music of Joan Jett that powered the promos. When NBC aired its first-ever episode of Sunday Night Football, on Aug.