In Stop Making Sense, the studio overdubbing present in the original “Once in a Lifetime” is replaced with live backing from an extended band including Bernie Worrell, Steve Scales, and Alex Weir. That keyboardist Jerry Harrison was able to recruit, among others, Parliament-Funkadelic’s Bernie Worrell demonstrates the artistic connections and funk heritage of Talking Heads and the new wave genre more generally. Additionally, Byrne performs in a comically oversized suit, an artistic decision which he endeavors to explain in a special feature for the 1999 DVD re-release. His numerous reasons for wearing the suit include: emphasizing the body over the head (“because music is very physical and the body often understands it before the head”), making a somewhat obscure reference to costumes from the Noh theater in Japan, and supplementing his stage persona: “a Mr. White Man trapped in his inhibitions, etc.” (Demme, Stop Making Sense). Byrne retains the jerky, sweaty, out-of-control choreography present in the original music video, furthering the narrative of moving mechanically, not fully consciously, through life. Together with his oversized suit, this appearance can be construed as a reflection of struggling with the pressures of modernity and business life.