What Happened to Plastic Love? - Tales From the Internet

Mariya Takeuchi’s song, Plastic Love, became improbably famous online nearly 40 years after its release in large part due to a quirk of the YouTube algorithm that put it in nearly everyone’s suggestions. In particular, an upload of the song by a user named Plastic Lover received over 20 million views. This specific upload of the song became an online nexus point where fans of the music became exposed to an entire subgenre of Japanese Pop Music known as Citypop. The image on Plastic Lover’s upload of the so