Here’s an interesting take.

The multi-ethnic female group The Ronettes had a hit with “Be My Baby,” written by white composers Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, and Phil Spector. It’s a real classic.

Fifty years later, the Madagascar ensemble Tarika performed a multilingual cover: first in English, then in French (the colonial language of Madagascar), and finally in their own language, Malagasy.

As Tarika goes back chronologically and culturally, they discover new depths that Greenwich / Barry / Spector probably didn’t anticipate.

Tarika is not appropriating the original song; they are expanding it, by placing it in a larger and richer context.