Hear The Mountain Goats' Ode To WWE's 'Legit Boss,' Sasha Banks

By Lyndsey McKenna

Published June 19, 2018 at 9:10 AM CDT

Sasha Banks (shown here at a WWE Live Duesseldorf event in 2017 in Duesseldorf, Germany) is the subject of a new song by The Mountain Goats.

If you've written off women's wrestling, you're missing out. Once cringeworthy and blatantly misogynistic, the oft-maligned melodramatic art form is having a moment in pop culture, from Netflix's to Palehound's squared circle-set video for " ." Even on sports entertainment's highest stage, is actively course-correcting, with women taking top billing on its flagship program, Monday Night Raw, and at pay-per-view events.

One of music's most prominent wrestling aficionados, ' John Darnielle, has already covered the ins and outs of wrestling, from heel turns and the territorial circuit, on his 2015 record , an album's-length ode to sports entertainment of yesteryear. Upon that album's release, superstar 鈥� then a performer in the company's developmental organization, 鈥� , "Where's my song @mountain_goats?" Darnielle responded, vowing to write "Song for Sasha Banks" before the end of the band's 2015 Regional Heat tour. He finally delivered on his promise 鈥� albeit belatedly 鈥� yesterday.

Where's my song ?
— $asha Banks (@SashaBanksWWE)

On " ," Darnielle treats Banks' backstory with the dignity and reverence befitting her pioneering performances: Banks competed in the WWE's first women's Iron Man and Hell in a Cell matches, and has held both the NXT women's championship and the WWE Raw women's championship. Her matches against Bayley at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn and NXT TakeOver: Respect demonstrate enough narrative and athletic prowess to turn any viewer, this author included, into a devotee.

"We here in the @mountain_goats acknowledge @SashaBanksWWE as the Boss," Darnielle said , a nod to Banks' confident, cocky "legit boss" gimmick. The lyrics pay homage to Banks' : from her itinerant childhood spent moving between California, Minnesota and Massachusetts, to her early career in independent wrestling, to her success on the main roster.

This isn't the first notable musical moment in Banks' wrestling career. Back in 2016, ahead of a triple-threat match at WrestleMania 32, Banks as her cousin performed her entrance song, " ."