Eddie Murphy - "Party All the Time"
Sometimes famous people don’t know how to stick with what they do best. “Party All The Time” is just another example of a star who started thinking a bit too highly off themselves. Comedic, Eddie Murphy, reaches new heights with this 1985 hit. The song hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the major hit of his music career. I wouldn’t exactly call this jam a career. But that’s neither here nor there. I guess he couldn’t stick to Beverly Hills Cop (1,2,and 3) and bananas in the tail pipe. He just had to branch out and ruin it for all of us.
In case you don’t know this jam, repeat “My girl wants to party all the time” ad nauseam and I’m sure you can get it. Eddie laments that he buys “you champagne and roses and diamonds on your finger/ Diamonds on your finger/ Still you hang out all night/what am I to do?” Poor Eddie is whipped. If you have tried everything in the book, including diamonds, I’m not sure that you can keep her around. Couldn’t one of his friends let him down easy.
Since no one was there to tell him how bad the leather track suit gracing the cover art for the single was we couldn’t count on anyone to let him know to let his party animal go.
The best he could do after this single was some Michael Jackson video appearances and the Shrek tunes. Give him a round of applause. I have to admit he sounds better on the Shrek soundtrack (ex. “Believe”) compared to the forced high pitch voice he uses on “Party All the Time.”
But where would we be without stars who decided to hit the record booth? In twenty years, I can only imagine what someone would say about “Party in the U.S.A.” To each generation, it’s own. But I happily rest, “Party All the Time” in the time capsule.
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