Originally Posted by
Akuratyde
The similarities between AWP and Crystal Japan are obvious, we don't need to get into that, but I was listening to them both last night when a thought occurred to me;
How would Trent even have heard Crystal Japan?
Crystal Japan was released as a single in Japan in 1980. TR would have been 15. This is well before the days of the internet and file sharing. Obscure singles like that didn't get heard by American teenagers. So, how could he even have heard it in the first place?
Another thing which baffles me; he obviously didn't steal the melody intentionally, but it's also unlikely he could have heard it so many years prior that he forgot he'd ever heard it, yet remembered the melody almost verbatim.