In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.