# Mariya Takeuchi — Plastic Love

Mariya Takeuchi’s Plastic Love (1984) appears on 2 of our lists — City Pop and Sung to Someone, highest at No. 1 in City Pop. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1984
- **Label:** Moon
- **On:** City Pop and Sung to Someone
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30
- **Artist:** [Mariya Takeuchi](https://waxonia.com/artist/mariya-takeuchi/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/mariya-takeuchi--plastic-love/

## What 2 lists say

### No. 1 in [City Pop](https://waxonia.com/genre/city-pop/)

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.

### Picked by [Sung to Someone](https://waxonia.com/theme/sung-to-someone/)

The most misread record here. It sounds like a city at three in the morning, and what it actually is is one woman telling someone not to take her seriously — which she only has to say out loud because he has started to.

## Analysis

8 sections, the first drop of 2 at 0:21, 7% of the way in, 10% of it spent climbing.

- **Tempo:** 103.4 BPM — holds throughout
- **Dynamic range:** 6.7 dB — moderate range, typical of a modern master
- **Length:** 5:09

- `0:00` A · **intro** (bar -4), instrumental — opens the record below its own average energy — playing: drums, bass, other
- `0:57` B · **steady** (bar 20), sung — holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other
- `1:17` B · **breakdown** (bar 29), sung — energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other
- `1:35` C · **steady** (bar 36), sung — holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other
- `2:30` A · **build** (bar 60), instrumental — energy and brightness climbing without a break — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other
- `3:00` C · **peak** (bar 73), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other
- `3:19` C · **lift** (bar 81), sung — a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other
- `4:02` D · **outro** (bar 100), sung — the closing fall — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other

**Drops** at 0:21 (bar 5), 2:31 (bar 61). A drop is a moment, not a stretch.

**What is playing.** Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.

- **drums:** the drum kit, separated from the mix
- **bass:** the bass part, separated from the mix
- **vocals:** the voice, separated from the mix
- **other:** everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings

Measured from the YouTube master on 2026-08-29. Section labels describe how the energy
moves, not musical form. Anything we were not confident enough to state is omitted
rather than hedged.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Mariya%20Takeuchi%20Plastic%20Love) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lC2O1oIew)

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