More to the point, despite the apparently updated production, the new cover is so note-for-note that it seems almost completely pointless except that future generations will credit the Halloween radio staple to the wrong has-been jheri curl drum-machine 80s act. Chalk one up for Morris, I guess.

But the thing I'm most curious about is, given the movie's lead actor, if they wanted someone with a track record of releasing lite-funk radio singles with vocals that sound exactly like Rockwell's, why didn't they ask Eddie Murphy himself? "Party All the Time" is more than qualification enough for doing a Rockwell update, and it might have given Eddie one of those Will Smith-style excuses for getting back in the recording biz via a film career.

Perhaps Eddie is no longer willing to indulge his musical career or to emulate Michael Jackson's singing voice. Mr. Murphy, Whatzupwitu?