Shia LaBeouf

"Shia LaBeouf" is a 2012 song by singer-songwriter Rob Cantor that portrays Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf as a hermit cannibal. In 2014, Cantor released an expanded music video with a cameo from LaBeouf himself. Development After a friend began "dramatically whispering" the name of actor Shia LaBeouf, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Rob Cantor wrote "Shia LaBeouf" in 2011, inspired by "nothing but the sheer silliness of imagining Shia LaBeouf, face and clothes smeared with half-dried blood, terrorizing helpless victims in a dark wood." The song describes an encounter and battle with LaBeouf, portrayed as an "actual cannibal" who lives in a forest and hunts people for sport. After writing the song, Cantor had hoped Funny or Die would be interested in using it in a video featuring the actor, but that arrangement never materialized. In 2012, Cantor posted "Shia LaBeouf" to his SoundCloud page, from where one of his fans found and shared it on Twitter. By May that year, both Boing Boing and BuzzFeed had featured the song, though the eponymous actor had not publicly commented on the work, which was selling at Cantor's site for .