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  "name": "Mariya Takeuchi",
  "description": "Mariya Takeuchi appears 2 times in our City Pop and Sung to Someone lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
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      "title": "Plastic Love",
      "year": 1984,
      "label": "Moon",
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      "whyItMatters": "A woman announcing she will not fall in love again, over the most buoyant arrangement imaginable. Rediscovered by a YouTube algorithm thirty years later and now the genre's front door.",
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