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An official 'Plastic Love' music video is also finally released in full on YouTube
Recorded in 1984, “Plastic Love” is the song that continues to make comeback after comeback. This month, well over three decades after its original release, the song’s full-length official video was finally uploaded to YouTube. According to Warner Music Japan, its re-issued 12-inch single also broke the country’s top ten sales chart for the first time.
Written and sung by Mariya Takeuchi, “Plastic Love” is pure “city pop,” a loosely-defined, breezy genre that has been described as “music made by city people, for city people.” Few things evoke the heady 1980s bubble era Japan more than city pop tunes. “I was pregnant with a child at the time, so it wasn’t like I was really able to indulge in the bubble-era excess in the same way as others could,” Takeuchi told The Japan Times. “I was writing songs at the time because it was fun for me.” (Full disclosure: I am a columnist at The Japan Times.)
“I wanted to write a rock song, a folk song, a country song,” she added. “I also wanted to write something danceable, something with a city pop sound. I wanted to write something that had 16 beats and lyrics capturing what life in a city was like.” According to Takeuchi, the lyrics are about a woman who lost her true love. “No matter how many other guys would pursue her, she couldn’t shake the feelings of loneliness that the loss created.”
But when a 12-inch single was released in Japan in March 1985, it only reached #86 on the Japanese music charts; however, the album on which it appeared, Variety, was a number one smash hit.
Read the full article on Kotaku
