Reply To: Not a cover, not a parody, YOU figure it out.
Paul, you’re right, the word I was looking for is “pastiche”, but I’m light-headed from a touch of the flu and I wasn’t going to wrack my brain. It certainly started out as a pastiche (and I guess it still is, as I would never think to write a song about an attention-starved self-immolating robot monkey in any context otherwise) but as I do the arrangement it’s getting more and more of me in it. I suppose it’s OK, being my song, especially considering that I put “me” into my JoCo covers. This will probably be the first song I’ve shared that I’m going to multi-track, though. I don’t do drums, so we’ll have to see how that goes.