It seems like NBC heard fans who ripped apart last season’s musical introduction to Sunday Night Football, a song called “Game On!” sung by Carrie Underwood.
That, in turn, had replaced “Oh, Sunday Night,” a rewritten version of the “Somethin’ Bad” that Underwood performed with Miranda Lambert. And the song that replaced was “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night,” a version of Joan Jett’s “I Hate Myself For Loving You.”
Good news for those of you who enjoyed that original tune: It’s back, according to NBC, and it looks like Jett will join Underwood to perform the original SNF opener:
As Awful Announcing pointed out, however, there are legal proceedings attached to “Game On!”
This June saw a (still-ongoing) lawsuit from Heidi Merrill, who said she created “Game On” in 2016 and uploaded it to YouTube in March 2017. She claims she pitched it to Underwood producer Mark Bright in August 2017, but was turned down. She then saw Underwood come out with the “substantially – even strikingly – similar, if not identical” version of “Game On” that was used last fall. That lawsuit names nine defendants, including Underwood, Bright, the NFL, NBC, and music publishing affiliates of Sony and Warner.
Regardless, SNF viewers will be extremely happy.
