Geez...how long has it been since thanks to that lucky YouTube algorithm, the world became cognizant of Mariya Takeuchi's（竹内まりや）famous "Plastic Love"? A couple of years, I gather. Well, along with the multiple videos of the singer-songwriter's 1980s single that have materialized on the site, plenty of the amateurs and professionals have also plied their vocals to the tune that has also ended up on Takeuchi's comeback 1984 album "Variety".
Among the pros is vocalist for the Neo City Pop band BLU-SWING, Yuri Tanaka（田中裕梨）, and in 2019, she released the sequel to her 2016 album of covers "City Lights", "City Lights 2nd Season". It even starts off with a cover of "Plastic Love" which doesn't stray too far off from the original and retains all that groovy goodness with the boppy bass and the horns. On listening to this, I had to go "Naruhodo" on Tanaka, one of the new generation of City Popsters, taking on this 80s City Pop classic.
I don't think that this has been released as an official song in her discography, but seiyuu/singer Saori Hayami（早見沙織）performed an unplugged version of "Plastic Love". Takeuchi has created songs for Hayami and I gather that this could be Hayami's way of paying tribute and saying thanks to the lady. Boy, wouldn't it be something if Blue Mountain Aoyama were to perform this one at Rabbit House during Amateur Night there? Sorry, just geeking out a bit.
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