Liv Morgan and Dirty Dominik Mysterio sat down with Billboard ahead of WrestleMania 42 to talk about their first WrestleMania moments, title victories and the parts of their relationship that keep spilling into the spotlight. Morgan also used the interview to tease her single “Trouble,” which is debuting exclusively with Billboard this week.
The conversation moved easily between wrestling and music, and that was the point. Morgan returned to New Jersey’s Elmwood Park Diner and said she grew up on chicken tenders, Shirley Temples and the sounds of Fetty Wap. She said, “We were the first to get him, though,” adding, “He was right next door in Paterson. We had ‘Trap Queen’ before everyone else.” Mysterio, meanwhile, said he came up as a West Coast kid on 2Pac, Ice Cube and N.W.A., and that high school felt like “a little bit of everything.”
That mix of sound and identity is what gave the piece its shape. The pair also rattled off some of their favorite records while building their ultimate Billboard Mixtape, a reflection of how their wrestling personas are tied to the music they grew up with and the songs they still carry with them. Morgan said she would “sing it herself” when the discussion turned to entrance themes, a small line that fit the larger picture: for both wrestlers, the performance does not stop when they leave the ring.
The tension in the story is that their public image keeps stretching beyond wrestling at the same time the sport is still the center of it all. The Billboard feature is built around their music tastes and personas, but it also lands just before WrestleMania 42, where the attention will turn back to what they do under the lights. Morgan’s new song, “Trouble,” adds another lane to that push, and the interview makes clear she is not treating it as a side note.
What comes next is already lined up. Morgan’s single is set to debut this week, and the WrestleMania 42 spotlight will give both her and Mysterio another chance to turn personal history, ring character and pop-culture reach into one story.