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n/m. After a few minutes of looking, it's Half-Remembered Homage I was thinking about.
See the subject. More of a real life Trope.
Basically someone is telephone'd, like the old game, a description of a work or event, without ever experiencing it themselves, and then makes something based off that idea.
Like Talking Heads making a Joy Division-like track, with The Overload, after only hearing of Joy Division, but none of their music.
Edited by Asuyuka