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Pam & Tommy fall into Seth Rogen's skeezy clutches in the first trailer for FX series Hundreds Stung as Extreme Storms Unleash Scorpion Plague in Egypt “I was writing songs at the time because it was fun for me.” (Full disclosure: I am a columnist at The Japan Times.)Ī-Rod, listen close, if you want your baseball career to end with the ultimate honor, you need to stop the cheatingĢ0 Movies So Bad, They're Actually Really GoodĪpple Finally Lets You Repair Your Own iPhone “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. 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. This month, well over three decades after its original release, the song’s full-length official video was finally uploaded to YouTube and, according to Warner Music Japan, its re-issued 12-inch single also broke the country’s top ten sales chart for the first time. Recorded in 1984, “Plastic Love” is the song that continues to make comeback after comeback. The official music video reminds me of those overwrought karaoke videos that play at Japanese karaoke parlors, which suits the vibe. Enjoy the recommendations! 1.A woman sits in the back of a taxi while "Plastic Love Mariya Takeuchi" flashes on the screen. This is now a fond inside joke of ours but I thought I would share a couple of the songs somewhat inspired, even if a little bit, by “Plastic Love.” I feel I should mention: This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, serious research. We concluded his current favorite tracks sounded too similar and we discovered the red thread connecting them all was Takeuchi’s popular hit, as Friday Night Plans’ cover softly played in the background. “I couldn’t find any song in my library that would nicely flow to and from,” I said. This realization happened while we were driving south of Kanagawa Prefecture for a weekend day trip, as I explained to him that I found it impossible not to group his songs together at the beginning of the playlist. Before Matsubara though, it was Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plastic Love” that went viral on YouTube in 2018.Īnd my boyfriend loves “Plastic Love.” In fact, he loves the song so much that any recent releases he enjoys enough to add to our collaborative Spotify playlist, we realized, vaguely exude the “Plastic Love” nostalgia of the ’80s (despite my boyfriend being a ’90s baby, but I have learned to not challenge him on that). Just as recently this past January, Miki Matsubara‘s “Stay With Me” was at the heart of a leading trend on Tik Tok and Instagram. In Japan, the last five years have seen a rise in new music inspired by the ’80s, especially city pop. With the millions of tracks at our fingertips, millennials and boomers alike revisiting their high school favorites, up-and-coming artists have the largest pool of inspiration in human history at their disposal. This is a common occurrence when listening to music, especially of the pop genre. It’s like a tickle in the brain, when you hear a song for the first time and there’s something that sounds familiar.