Michael Shannon’s aggressive dad vibes grow stronger with each passing day. Appearing on Late Night With Seth Meyers to promote Nine Perfect Strangers (in which he wears a lot of polo shirts tucked into jeans), the actor and musician played a song he wrote at 15 for his band, Jehovah’s Suspects. Titled simply “The Armadillo Song,†it’s a Southern rock ditty about the trials and tribulations of a young desert mammal. “I remember the day when I left home / My mama started crying and my pop gave me a comb†the second verse goes. “He said you gotta look presentable otherwise they don’t care / He never seemed to notice we ain’t got no hair!†Shannon admits, though, that he had never seen an armadillo when he wrote that song. On a camping trip years later, he discovered that armadillos do, in fact, have hair — it’s just on their underbellies. Still, he didn’t feel the need to change the lyrics, because, “when you’re at MSG playing the song you don’t want people getting confused.†We’ll be front-row center when Jehovah’s Suspects headline Madison Square, but until then just imagine your dad Michael Shannon pulling out his guitar at a backyard barbecue and serenading everyone with “The Armadillo Song.†Ah, soothing.
Michael Shannon’s Armadillo Song Isn’t Quite Zoologically Accurate
