Our Lady Peace played “Whatever”, Chris Benoit’s theme song, for the first time in 22 years.
At a concert in Calgary, the band played “Whatever”. Lead singer Raine Maida noted that while the song had a “troubled past”, they wanted to “reclaim” it.
A clip of the concert was posted on Twitter:
“Whatever” was used as Chris Benoit’s theme song in WWE from 2022 until his death in June 2007. Benoit. Benoit murdered his wife Nancy and their son Daniel before he committed suicide.
Dark Side Of The Ring’s Evan Husney On Chris Benoit
Chris Benoit’s story was previously highlighted on Dark Side of the Ring. Executive Producer Evan Husney spoke with WrestleZone’s Managing Editor Bill Pritchard about Benoit’s story and including it in the show. He highlighted how it was a complicated story to tell.
“…We started developing the ‘Chris Benoit story’ as a separate documentary that we’d perhaps make somewhere else. We’d spent four or five months researching the story and through that, we thought that story was worth a reexamination.
“There are so many things in 2020 that we understand more than we did back in 2007—whether that’s domestic violence issues, mental health issues, physical and mental, or CTE—which plays a part in the story, and so that’s the original thought behind wanting to tackle the story. But then along the way once we started to talk to people involved with the story—and that all happened through Chavo Guerrero Jr—once we started talking we realized everyone wanted to tell the story. They’ve had this story on their minds, on their chest for a long time, whether they’ve been told not to talk about it or they didn’t have a platform to talk about it, because it’s such a complicated story.
“It’s such a complicated thing to have someone that was your best friend, your brother-in-law, your father, that actually committed these crimes. How do you come to terms with that, how do you process that? We just felt like that coming together to tell the story could help in some way, like a cathartic way and hopefully have a positive conversation around it.”
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