After a brief hiatus following 2004's Longtime Favorites album, Takeuchi returned to the scene in 2007 with the number one album Denim, and repeated the number one feat with 2008's Expressions. Along with her success as a solo artist, however, Takeuchi has become something of a go-to songwriter for Japan's pop industry, penning songs for a series of top artists. Since 1984, Takeuchi has released seven studio albums, each holding the Oricon number one slot, and a 1994 compilation (Impressions) became one of the higher-selling Japanese albums with three million copies sold.
Upon her return in 1984, fame was awaiting in a grander fashion. After marrying fellow musician and sometimes collaborator Tatsuro Yamashita in 1981, Takeuchi took a leave from the industry to raise their young child. The albums fared similarly, each hitting the weekly Top 20, but only 1980's Love Songs hit number one on the charts and became a strong seller. She released a total of five albums between 19, with a series of singles scratching the Top 100 or Top 40 of the Oricon charts, but never gaining a number one hit (though "Mysterious Peach Pie" did become a strong player, peaking at a number three position). How Japanese city pop’s quintessential clip lodged itself in the YouTube. The single garnered moderate success, ultimately launching Takeuchi into wide recognition. Talking to the Anonymous YouTuber and the Photographer Who Helped Mariya Takeuchi’s Plastic Love Go Viral. Months later, he came in contact with me and said he wanted to restore the video.A Keio University student with a penchant for singing, Mariya Takeuchi took it upon herself to jump-start her career, releasing a single in 1978 without a label. Everyone just moved on, and I thought that was it. We began negotiating about getting the video back on air, but people were sending so much hate mail that he wasn’t very willing to negotiate. That’s when I realized that the song and the picture pretty much had been a combined experience.Īlan and I were pretty much contacting each other through other people-that’s where Stevem came along. That video is now private, but it got like 30,000 views, maybe, which is very low compared to the 20 million that it used to have. I re-uploaded the song with a different picture, and it was very unsuccessful. People began re-uploading the song again, this time crediting him as the photographer. I was expecting something from Warner Music Group or Alfa Moon Records. PL: When I got the message that it was taken down by Alan, I thought it was an error or that he was a troll, because I couldn’t find any information about him on YouTube. Plastic Lover, how did you react after your video got taken down?
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