Issue #303: Asking About What One Already Knows

Crystal Kay is a (great) pop/R&B artist from Japan. Most prolific through the 2000s, her style fits right in with late 90s and 2000s U.S. music in the same style. She especially has all those distinctive synth sounds, samples, and intangibles to make her music sound familiar. I was listening to 637: Always and Forever (2001) and noticed something when I…