Shawn Michaels wasn’t sure about his “Sexy Boy” entrance music at first. The WWE legend was the latest guest on Chris Van Vliet‘s YouTube channel, and he explained his initial hesitation toward the now-iconic theme.

“Still one of the greatest songs ever if you ask me. I’m one of the few guys who’s never changed his theme song and I never will,” Michaels said. “At 60, it’s hilarious to me that we’re still doing it. But that’s the thing… I feel like HBK, that character, even at 60, can get away with it. That’s one of the things I’m most proud of, because nobody takes me or that character that seriously now, and that was part of who he was.”

Michaels continued, “When it first came out, I can remember hearing it and thinking like, ‘Ugh, geez.’ When you go singles and you pitch yourself as a singles star, everybody sees themself more as the action hero guy. Kevin Nash always describes it as the guy who’s flying the helicopter with the cigar in his mouth, the M-16 in his hand and the girl on his arm… doing everything cool.”

“My character obviously was not really close to any of that, but then as I got with [Sensational] Sherri and then began to embrace it and then just be able to find out who this was — a boy toy that was in the song — it was so helpful in helping me find out who HBK would eventually become. Jimmy Hart and that song deserves a lot of credit for everything that I accomplished, because it was the tool that I used to find that character.”

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Michaels even spoke about the day he went into the recording studio to track his vocals.

“I remember talking with Jimmy and telling him, ‘I don’t have a good voice.’ My voice is so deep and I can’t get high pitches. I was self conscious anyway, but Jimmy said, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll make it sound great baby.’ It was icing on the cake when it goes from Sherri singing it to me singing it.”

HBK summarized, “It was just so ludicrous. I can’t express it enough… it was just not where I saw myself going. I felt I could be more of who I maybe was later on when I was 35, 36… with a little bit of grit. At that time, that just wasn’t something I was going to pull off.”

“Once I heard that song, that’s when I began to think about, ‘Who are two people I can think of that I can connect with on that level that are this type of showman?’ It was Freddie Mercury and Elvis. Those are the two people I began to focus on and that’s what got me to the point to where I could be comfortable out there. I can’t dance a lick, I can’t sing, I had no ‘game’ as the kids say. When it came to girls and stuff like that I was very shy. All of that character was 100-percent based on a bunch of BS that I’ve never actually really had.”

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