Chantal Chamberland's version of U2's Miss Sarajevo
Inger Marie Gundersen's version of (Sittin' on) The dock of the bay
"Better" is probably the wrong term in the above cases, but they are both very different but valid arrangements of the originals.
what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?
The first ones to come to mind are Whitney’s version of I Will Always Love You and Allen Stone’s Georgia On My Mind but I would love to hear other contributions as well! I feel like there are a lot of songs where a covered version gets more popular than the original and people end up not realizing that it is a cover (ex. i had a friend that genuinely believed the Jonas Brothers wrote Year 3000). so, what‘a a song that was written by one artist but (figuratively) owned by another?