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"Plastic Love" is a song performed by Japanese singer Mariya Takeuchi. The song was included on Takeuchi's 1984 album, Variety, and also released as a single on November 19 that year. A twelve-inch single was released on March 15, 1985, which included an "extended club mix" and "new re-mix" of the song and reached 86th on the Oricon Singles Chart. The single, embodying the city pop style, was moderately received and sold around 10,000 copies.
"Plastic Love" was written and performed by Takeuchi and produced by her husband, Tatsuro Yamashita; he also played guitar for the song, while Yasuharu Nakanishi played electric piano, Kōki Itō played bass guitar, and Jūn Aoyama played drums.
On July 5, 2017, an eight-minute remix of "Plastic Love" was uploaded to YouTube by a user known as "Plastic Lover". The video showed a cropped version of the cover of Takeuchi's earlier single "Sweetest Music", taken by Los Angeles-based photographer Alan Levenson. Coinciding with the vaporwave genre's rise in popularity, which itself takes cues from the city pop scene, the video spread rapidly throughout YouTube through the platform's recommendations algorithm. Its spread was also aided by internet memes, discussions on Reddit, and fan art of the "Sweetest Music" cover on platforms such as DeviantArt. The video garnered 24 million views before being taken down for copyright violations, but has been restored in 2019.
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