I'm with you, man. I've heard that a few times lately. It's bad enough in pop music - you seem to diminish your own performance by calling it a 'cover', and it conveys to me a sense that you don't really have that much respect for the song itself: it's merely something to be 'covered'.

But what can you do? Young adults now do not remember a time when 'cover', 'self-titled', etc., did not exist as music-industry terms, so .......