Board Thread:Decisions/@comment-29512888-20170111223307/@comment-1465604-20170112165713

Further information on "Mickey (Hawaii Version)":
 * It is not a cover covered in-house by Ubisoft or even commissioned by Ubisoft but a 2004 song by Gorie with Jasmine & Joann released commercially. If you look at the official music video, the coach is actually based on Gorie's (the male singer) Cheerleader get-up in the music video.
 * The song is less of a cover and more of a re-imagination of the original. They didn't try to make the song sound like the original, with a different arrangement and sound and featuring a male vocalists for parts of the song and, most importantly, being mostly in Japanese. It's not even the same length as the original, being 30 seconds shorter. Also, if you take a look at the lyrics, they're actually quite different. While the original is all about Mickey being so "fine" and wanting to make him one's own, the Hawaii Version speaks of love (instead of lust).

Is it very clearly a cover of "Mickey"? Yes. Is it quite different on a fundamental level? Also yes.