i want to make a cover for a song that i really really like, that has been performed by many different artists in my country. the cover will include a genre-shift, but for this specific one i will most probably not write new parts, but take some of the things that i love from those different versions, change the sound, arrange the traffic. it feels more like a collage than a cover. does it count as "my version" now, or am i a fraud?
listen to 100 cover songs that other people have done, and decide which of theirs you think are frauds and then listen to the original Richard Marx version