Making a cover doesn’t always mean that you play an existing song in your own way. It could also mean that you make an artistic cover, that you make your own version of a known or unknown work of art that already exists. There are many reasons to be a copy cat. To name a few:

- Learning by imitating. The copy cat is one an animal that for some reason has been given an undeserved bad reputation. I think it is time to restore the honor of the copy cat by lifting her up and stressing that what she does isn’t just good but also vital in many contexts. Vital is a good word that means something damn important. Being a copy cat is like biking with support wheels. It’s not good something you use to all your life but it’s a good start if you want to become a good bike racer some day. Or artist. Or photographer. Or high jumper.

- You can cruise a bit on the fame of original work of art. Just look at Jose Gonzales who made a cover of The Knife's song Heartbeats, or Andy Warhol that one could say made a cover of Marilyn Monroe's face with his paintings. Okay, Warhol didn’t really make a cover. You can’t make a cover of someone's face. Or can you?

- You can try different things and play around. Eventually you'll find your own artistic talent through a process of elimination. First, you might paint some naked ladies like Anders Zorn did and realize that it wasn’t your thing. Bears in mosaic like Ernst Billgren. Nope, not that either. Write things on the refrigerator like Miranda July. There we have something. And you build yourself from it.