Covers that double as a response / tell the "other side of the story"

Really digging the Bettye LaVette (2003) cover of Robert Cray (1986)'s "Right Next Door" (Both produced by co-writer Dennis Walker), where she's another actor in the same scene. Any other cases like this out there in musicland or is it unique?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yftyjsm7JNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtYltpS1iaU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBuEkXsDCnU

The whole Roxanne, Roxanne saga comes to mind

How much change is allowable with it still being a "cover"? Is "No Pigeons" a cover or a parody? The thread title first made me think of things like that, but then of things (can't think of good examples) where maybe just a few lines are changed, but between the arrangement/vibe and who is singing it, it seems clearly like an answer/critique/addition to the story. Tori Amos's Strange Little Girls was generally going for the latter, for example.

this used to be common practice in country music (the most famous example being Hank Thompson 'The Wild Side of Life' -> Kitty Wells 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels'. it was a traditional melody, so Kitty didn't even need to give credit to Hank's songwriters)

...And the Answer Is: Great Country Answer Discs from '50s-'60s, Vol. 1)

this is pretty common in r&b/hip-hop and you'll probably see an example on most mixtapes, the various female responses to chris brown's "loyal" were brilliant last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAZzO6mdG_U

it was the concept behind tori amos's strange little girls, yeah, probably worked best on her creepy eminem cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0u8KeII-Io

Yeah, a lot of that kind of stuff in "urban" genre, fuck you/back comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.U.R.B._%28Fuck_You_Right_Back%29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr-ekKXuloM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHmoTN1AH4Y

^Thanks to Sheila B from WFMU for that one

Aretha's 'Respect' is the big one, right?

The rewritten/expanded lyrics of A New England that original songwriter Billy Bragg did for Kirsty MacColl's cover is a relevant example here. (Subsequently performed live by Bragg with female duet partners as an in-song answer record.)

The Etta James cover of Only Women Bleed surely qualifies here, right.

julie tippetts' version of robert wyatt's "god song" is definitely an answer song.

Do these count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3M3Igjnbhs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gV5C5mB7A