The Plastic Love Photo Incident - Tales From the Internet
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- Опубликовано: 1 янв 2025
- Mariya Takeuchi's song, Plastic Love, became improbably famous online nearly 40 years after its release in large part due to a quirk of the RUclips algorithm that put it in nearly everyone's suggestions. In particular, an upload of the song by a user named Plastic Lover received over 20 million views. This specific upload of the song became an online nexus point where fans of the music became exposed to an entire subgenre of Japanese Pop Music known as Citypop.
The image on Plastic Lover's upload of the song, however, was not the artwork for the Plastic Love single nor the album it appeared on. In fact, it was a photo taken by a man named Alan Levenson, originally intended for the Miss M album artwork. After finding a video about Plastic Love by a RUclipsr named Stevem, Alan learned of the song's sudden popularity.
Although at first he was excited to hear about the image's newfound fame, he became embroiled in copyright disputes over the image with Mariya Takeuchi's current and past record labels and ultimately, this led to the removal of Plastic Lover's video, causing major online backlash.
Stevem's video: • What is Plastic Love ?
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My man plz make a vid about Time Machine Modulus. It's /mu/-related, it's a great meme and I want that fucking album released.
Do a video on Wing.
Really diggin' that long hair of yours! i have long hair too.
Great video, i know. Im not just some guy.
I love 80's j-pop. Thanks for making this! Any new Bio Hazard cast news?
Once again, a record company earned a windfall profit from a meme, meanwhile the little guy got the shaft.
@Leopold nope, you pay them for their work not some of their work. You order photographer to take thousand of photo and you decide to only pay for one photo, how's that fair?
@Leopold hmm I see, I think it's different between countries. Or maybe the photographers my family used just not using industry standard I guess
Professional successful entertainment industry working in major American cities, work viewed by millions.... "little guy." God damn but corporate PR has that mind control technique DOWN.
@Leopold this is so wrong, and youve probably never had a photo gig or a job in that field. They hire a photographer for an hour or two to take some photos then they pay the person for the amount of time the job has taken. They should have payed him, they ripped him off.
Leopold my dad is a wedding photographer and he gets paid hourly idk what you're on about
She still looks great at 64
For real, look her up. It's surreal
Brrack don't crracku.
@@hansjuker8296 lmao!!
Asian women tend to do that, is like, literally, they are one day like beautiful and BOOM MENOPAUSE and they become tiny Asian old ladies that judge you from afar
Asian don’t raisin. _points to my mom as evidence_
Commander Shepard not that they weren’t already judging you from afar. Based on my ex fiancée and my other ex girlfriends
"Unable to come to terms that were mutually satisfactory"
Alan: Pay me something, anything
Warner Bros: No
Poor Warner Bros. Enormous corporation with more money than you can fathom, doesn't want to pay a photographer properly for his work. They had no choice but to say no to him so that he has almost no options to exercise control over his copyrighted work.
@Yotecai Luz He's not "selfish and stupid," he's unfamiliar with RUclips's absolute shit policies. Wanting help for compensation ain't selfish. It was an innocent mistake with very huge consequences. People have been wanting a way to edit videos without reuploading for a very long time because replacing uploads just feels intuitive, so him thinking a huge website owned by Google can do that is kinda not hard to get mad at. He just has no idea how the system works and the hate mail making him go on the defensive hurts this all.
Edit: and to further solidify you're being a jerk, Plastic Love is up now with credits to Alan and no ad revenue.
Lol. Right
@Yotecai Luz this is such a millennial comment jesus christ
More like:
Alan: Give me munny.
Warner Bros: Why? We didn't use your pic. Some random youtuber did.
Alan: REEEEEEEEEE
Man, imagine if Alan had just started selling posters, t-shirts, etc. of the images he owned.
I'd still buy that Plastic Love t-shirt.
a niche market like this is very profitable.
Yes just imagine! What a lost opportunity
@@syncsummitPeople prolly still buy her work or support her in some way. When you are not greedy people tend to help you out more. People will tell you life doesn't work that way but most people don't know shit about life.
@@lucaswiens1884 I asked him myself and Alan told me he can't legally do that without Warner or Mariya permission/contract which they won't give. Even if it's his copyright he doesn't have permission from the brand to sell related merch.
She looked soo beautiful in that photo. Life is crazy.
Crazy to think she's like almost 70 year old now
@@kamada2068 I mean she is 64 years old.
@@tombkings6279 ik she is but it's crazy honestly that she kinda just disappeared for so long until just now. It's nice she's getting more recognition
@@kamada2068 i get you
Simp
"He just wanted to remove the image, but he didnt know how youtube would handle it"
Oh
ohno
ahegaofish rude much?
harime nui
I don’t get it
Truck -kun why am I an idiot.... I do not understand
Blonditi hi please explain this wooosh to me
One of the few times RUclips Recommendations actually does something right
That woman is over 60 years old and I CANNOT find a picture of her where she looks over 30, and that’s generous.
Fuck Alex, I’m going to HER for immortality, Jesus Christ.
She's like Masahiro Sakurai. It's almost like they age backwards.
Orpheus
Yes, but her hands are a different story
Cool comment. Not weird at all.
@@user-id8ih homie knows how to really tell the age
Plastic Lover's video is back, now with a copyright to Alan for the image, and with no ad revenue. I think that's pretty win-win, I honestly feel bad for Alan because artists and photographers going uncredited on RUclips videos using their work as thumbnails IS a huge problem. For example, a lot of Touhou fanart is now completely gone from how the artists, in response to rampant art theft, took down their artwork.
So, I'm glad everyone wins here.
To the Touhou fanart, do you have source to the rampant?
@@tereziakovacikova9738 you can try wayback machine circa 2008-2012 that's when I remembered a ton of touhou art and niconico videos in general being on RUclips without the creators permission
@Blan_K Nah touhou has been around for many years. Omae Wa Mou isn't really the first time touhou got some sort of spotlight.
True true, your explanation is way more mature than most peeps bitching around on Alan's respond.
@Defqon they are paid in such circumstances and have generally sold these pieces. Whereas alan owned the photo, it was his right to takedown what was rightfully his, No one else gets to decide what happens to the photo other than alan. The same should be true for the song but say if mariya didnt want the song on youtube a million entitled brats would probably send her hate mail too about how her decision was stupid and she should put it back up even though she should have the final say on what happens to it
Still livid that they actually removed the original, it had so many views
+Nörmal_ What difference does it make when there are other uploads of it? The amount of views affect your enjoyment of it? That is a strange thing to be "livid" about.
Nothing much it was just that the video was in recommended and I absolutely loved the song. Sad to see it gone, but it’ll never be forgotten.
@@normal_2956 That's I mean though, the song is still available. So why are you sad?
Just like they removed a vinyl upload of Roundabout by Yes that had over 100 million views.
@@fuchfred4646 the video had sentimental values to a lot of people .-.
I have no idea who you are but this video showed up in my recommendations feed.
Thanks youtube algorithm.
Same
Subscribe, he’s really good, trust me
I can't believe RCA didn't pick that photo for the cover of her album. It has so much energy, and Mariya is a knockout. I'm so glad we got to see what should've been.
Tatsuro Yamashita, her husband, also makes some amazing music just like hers. They are such a great couple.
zeranzeran they are!!! 💓
They're the king & queen of city pop, mate!
I love Tatsuro Yamashita and his songs much like Mariya Takeuchi
He's a lucky dude he basically is married to a goddess
@@cm9231 They're both lucky because he's a legend as well
"Old Man Doesn't Understand How Internet Works"
Nope "fucker wants to Jew old work he was already paid for" is more appropriate
I know it very well
It's a series of tubes.
The internet is not something that you just dump something on
@@Poperol "Fans are entitled pricks over a copyrighted image that wasnt being used in accordance to fair rights." do your research kiddie.
AND NOW the photo of Mariya Takeuchi, clicked by Alan Levenson is now the cover art for the official vinyl release of "Plastic Love" in 2021. How great is that !
If he'd just been a little more savvy then Alan could have auctioned off original prints and the rest of the photoshoot while maintaining a positive presence on the internet. He wouldn't have got millions, but he would have been popular and attracted interest to the rest of his portfolio.
Lessons in learning, straight from Whang!
Also, kudos for getting Stevem involved instead of trying to hog the credit - details like that are why I stay subbed.
He's a bitter old stooge, what do you expect?
Old man didn't understand the new age and the internet.
Psh, I would have done what he did. I want $$ for my work
@@thewanderingrey8830 Film studios and music corporations still earn money from their products decades after its release. Why should this photographer be any different? Copyright is copyright doesn't matter if people think they have the right to steal it.
@@redkittyproject Yeah ppl are dumb as hell. He should get money for his work.
Whang is one of those insta-clicks as soon as the notification pops up.
Literaly the only Insta click for me
Who doesn't love when Whang pops up... wait what?
yuuuup
No joke, some RUclipsrs make a 10 minute video and I'm like "eh I'll watch it later". With him, I click it right away because it's worth it.
Exactly.
Wait, this was recommended to everyone? I thought this just happened cause I listen to a lot of Japanese bands
I think it is because I always listen to larc en ciel's songs too. Plastic love came to my recommendation
Same realised just now
It's duvit😍
Plot twist, everyone listens to a lot of Japanese bands...
I never got it recommended to me until I clicked on some siivagunner rips with her in them. Granted I mostly listen to metal, so that might explain it, even though I do listen to Japanese bands.
Thank you for informing us about Alan's side of the story. I hope Alan will get what he deserves for the photo he took that became the face of Plastic Love.
Martin Green He deserves a different thumbnail that’s all he wanted .He didn’t understand what he was doing cut him some slack ,try thinking from other people’s perspective. Ignorant.
@@Bran_Flakesx7 it's his photo you idiotic asshole. He have took the picture ( professionally ) he have the right
@@Bran_Flakesx7 lmao how butthurt can you get. ignorant.
@@Bran_Flakesx7 you are very rude. I would consider you ignorant, but you are much worse than that.
@@Bran_Flakesx7 whoa what a long butt hurt sentence without any coherent argument. Fascinating, you want to say more about your ignorance?
City Pop is such a magical genre, and Mariya Takeuchi helped me discover it. ...as well as Whang.
Vaporwave
the wink when she singing c:
Simp
@Babe the pig shut up 11 year old
@@xcx000 simp 2
@@gregory7320 you and ur six subscribers cant say crap
@@funkifroggi1727 I got no videos on my channel so me having subs means something.
Imagine if Alan sold the photo as an official poster or something.
Maybe even do a collaboration with City Pop/Vaporwave artists to make renditions.
Would be a good way to make more money than he is now AND be friendly with the people who love his photo so much.
If he sold t-shirts and removed the strike...
Unfortunately he was a fucking idiot.
He can't sell it I believe. He has to have Maria's permission.
WOW. SO E A S Y. ITS LIKE HE CAN JUST MONITIZE SOMEONE ELSES IMAGE?!?
@@k-aw-teksleepysageuni8181 alright buddy pal, calm down
Im a metalhead, but damn, I love Japanese City Pop from the 80´s, Thanks to Plastic Love
Same here, my man
Rock on brother
Same
Same bro
Same, I feel like I shouldn't love it but I can't help it.
You guys should check out Demetori and Band Maid
As an artist myself, I can’t help but take Alan’s side here, especially because he wasn’t even compensated in the initial run.
el emm eyy ohh
Didn't he sell the rights for Warner Brothers to use the photo initially though?
I was actually really curious about why the video was removed!
I became a massive city pop fan because of it tbh.
Thanks for the info as always!
@Trantor The Troll Fuck you I was a fan of City Pop before the big bang even happened
@@TheAkrillion fuk you, i was a fan of city pop before the creation of the first city.
BREAKING NEWS: Older gentleman doesn't quite understand how the internet works, more at 11
LMAO
UPDATE: Fans abuse old man after said old man files a copyright strike on his own work despite asking for removal of image. More at 12.
@@markky3050 Still doesn't change the fact that he tried to seek justice via the wrong means by not understanding how RUclips works. I can understand why you want to defend Alan but learn to understand what the comment is - it is just saying an old man accidentally cause harm (without ill intent) by not understanding how internet works. It's not condemning his action in seeking proper pay for his hardwork.
@@OutdatedLeon More like youtuber doesn't know how copyright works by using a picture he doesn't own without permission of the creator.
Outdated Leon that was his right from the beginning and the person who should be claimed theft is plastic lover for using the photo and song
Remember when every single RUclips video had "Racist Mario" recommended?
yes, I remember that I had the thumbnail blocked out of memory until a while ago.
I didn't know it was everyone, I liked to watch Mario back then
@Blan_K tbf he still puts out a lot of great stuff
Damn
Damn
I don't feel that Alen's that bad of a guy. He kinda got screwed over. That picture is iconic and as a photographer myself I can imagine being upset if a piece of my work became so influential and generated so much revenue for someone else without receiving any credit or compensation (you can say that Mariya's song is what really generated the revenue, which is definitely true in part, but I know for a fact that I clicked on that video because of the thumbnail initially and THEN got hooked by the song). The unfortunate thing is that he didn't understand how RUclips or the internet really works and, in trying to just get his name attached to what became his most famous piece, ended up being hated by masses of people who grew so attached to the song. Whole situation kinda sucks really. :/
Hi Lifg the job of the model also depends completely on someone else: the photographer. Have you ever shot a professional set? A lot of work goes into it. You have to find the perfect lighting, setting, action, camera settings, etc and make sure they all fit together perfectly to produce the most flattering and effective shot possible. You’re also responsible for your own equipment which is hella expensive. Sure I think the person who’s in the photo should have a say, but just as a painter who paints a portrait is the artist of that piece so too is the photographer who takes a well done portrait. It’s an art form and like all arts it takes a metric fuck ton of practice patience and talent to get professional, and that should be respected, rewarded, and defended.
True true. I think if we kinda explore in how Alan see things or from his perspective we could feel how bad and bertrayed he is. I think you explained this in a very mature way compared with some other peeps bitching about Alan's respond.
@Hi Lifg you have no idea what you are talking about, you are just being purely disrespectful and stupid, your idea of it being impressive is irrelevant anyways, its his photo he gets to decide what happens to it. btw try looking into how much photography gear costs someday.
@Hi Lifg uhm i think many jobs depends 100% on someone else...... a photo wont be there if there's no photographer nor a model.
being a healthcare worker also depends 100% on someone else. if there are no sick/dying people what else would you do? mop the hospital?
being an architecture depends on someone else. if there are no people/companies asking for designs of structure/s what else would you do?
lol i hope you get my point
@Hi Lifg It's a good photo. I doubt very much you could make something look that good if you had all week to do it. But unfortunately we live in an age where everyone thinks they're an expert on everything.
The funny thing is how the Algorithm itself brought me here 😂
Same
Full disclosure: I had no idea Plastic Love had a "story" like this around it. I was an anime fan in highschool, then adapted to have a taste for 70s-90s era J-rock/pop as I started college. Also, to my understanding, unless it's anime or vocaloid or idol group stuff, Japanese music is harder to come by on RUclips in full albums; I can only find one studio version of a Kazumi Nikaido song, and before Tatsuro Yamashita did some music for the movie Mirai in 2018, it was hard to find many of his songs and albums even when you searched. So when Plastic Love was recommended to me, I thought the algorithm was just picking up on my interests and it was just one random single that managed to be uploaded. I didn't even think to look at the comments or view count at the time. It's wild to think Plastic Love was such a big deal to such a broad and bizarre audience!
Ladybird G It’s relatively easy to find full Japanese albums not correlated to other media, you just gotta know where to look. Granted, we’re lucky songs like 4:00 AM by Taeko Ohnuki and I love you so by Junko Ohashi are available on RUclips or anywhere for that matter because both the Vinyl and cassette versions of those albums are very difficult to come by and very expensive.
@@jerrell1169 taeko is (to me) a goddess
Holy shit! I was just hearing Maria Takeuchi and Tatsuro Yamashita and your video came up. What kind of Whang magic is this?!?!
Magic Ways
Same here dude been binging on 80’s jpop for the past few days
Dude same!
I feel like I heard her name in the past? But I can't place it. I mean Takeuchi probably a pretty common name but hmm
Provisorio
Fellow Space Ghost lover.
Meme or not, CityPop has some bangers. Interesting genre.
Until I heard this song I never knew what to call the genre of the soundtrack to Dan Bell's Dead Mall videos.
@@bille.pogrom3148 I think it's more so a mix of city pop, vapor wave, and future funk. I love his Dead Mall series. Nice to see a fellow fan!
Yep. Basically any song from Tatsuro Yamashita. Haruomi Hosono, Meiko Nakahara, Taeko Ohnuki, Tomoko Aran, and more have great hits
@@dipp1511 dead on!
plastic love is what got me into japanese jazz fusion. After plastic love got recommended to me and a couple of other things along the same line that my friend sent me. I kept getting this one album recommended to me. "An Insatiable High" by Masayoshi Takanaka. I finally listened to it and oh my god, it was like nothing I had ever heard. After that I feel further down the rabbit hole and Takanaka, Katsumi Horii Project and Casiopea are some of my favorite bands/musicians. So glad I got recommended plastic love in the first place
One Japanese producer I know who also does jazz fusion is Mushi-p I think you should check it out
i can confirm that youtube recommendations got me hooked onto city pop. I otherwise would have had no idea 70s-80s japan was making music I like alot, but I am very happy to have found it.
- loves his photo's newfound fame
- removes the video that made it famous
- expects people to be on his side
Insert confused Jackie Chan meme
-confused when people aren't on his side
Surprised Pikachu
I mean, according to the video, he didn't intend to remove the video. He just wanted his credit on the picture. I guess he doesn't really understand that when you copyright strikes something on youtube, it will be immediately removed.
This is the case of an old man didn't understand how's things on the internet work.
@@randodox8375 I call bullshit. You don't just take legal action against something without understanding the implications.
Perhaps he should've made his intentions known before he did what he did.
@@randodox8375 Then what is he doing on the internet in the first place? And Steve, Plastic Lover, and those thousands of Twitter users probably explained to him "RUclips doesn't work that way", so the fact that he still hasn't changed his mind means he's either stupid, an asshole, or both.
And let's just talk about the principal of wanting the image removed from the video. I can understand wanting WB to compensate him for his work, but how does having the image removed from a fan's video accomplish anything? This is literally that South Park "Step 3) Profit" meme, complete with Step 2 just being a bunch of question marks.
Hes a jew
I discovered the song just a few days ago and I'm in love with it. It keeps disappearing even this week and even today, as I write this. And searching about it, I stumbled upon this story. So this is going on for 5 years at least? This is astonishing.
I understand the photographer's position on things, but what he does really is hurtful to many...
Whang, keep making these videos man. You do these deep dives no one else talks about. It feels like every RUclipsr talks about and covers the same news and topics over and over. When one of your videos comes out I know I'm gonna get a video about something unique and interesting.
Plastic Love is basically like the Hydra of the internet, take down one, ten emerge.
That’s the Streisand effect in a nutshell.
Nothing exclusive to Plastic Love.
Yep😂
Guess Alan will just have to find a way to cauterize those videos.
Plastic Love brought me into the city pop rabbit hole and I don't regret it.
She's so beautiful! That album cover of her is just stunning! I used to play the song video and just enjoy looking at her picture.
"Months after the takedown, Plastic Love has been fully restored! And it's all thanks to Alan's willingness to negotiate and tell me more about the case, and Stevem's support throught this journey"
~ Plastic Lover's pinned comment under his restored video.
“Willingness to negotiate” If that isn’t damning with faint praise, then I don’t know what is. Not surprised, guy seems like a petty egotist. You’d have to be to copyright troll over a 40 year old photograph of someone else.
this song has been part of my daily routine for some time now haha.
i clicked this notification so fast when i saw it.
Poor Alan. It's worse to be forgotten but then to be recognized by the very thing many remember him by yet gets no respect.
Bro im so sad that video got taken down, the top comment was the sweetest story ever. Its about how the commenter met their lover in a bookshop while the song was playing in the background
Someone in another video of Plastic Love luckily didn't lose the comment. go check the video uploaded by a user named Gun.
God that's so sad. Im glad he got at least some of the recognition he deserves. Im glad everyone knows his photo because its really nice. Thanks for making this video
Vaporwave music had a big part too. Vaporwave artists would sample that song.
I mean, before I clicked on the vid what caught my eye was the pretty girl on the thumbnail
While he did handle the situation wrong, I don't blame him. He probably knew very little about the internet at all let alone was a pro at navigating the art of it.
It was a whole 'nother world back then, and a lot of people haven't caught up. Conversely, a lot of people who currently use the internet either never experienced, or barely remember a time without internet. That's why my boy Whang! can cover all of these topics with a fond layer of nostalgia. It's a blessing to be able to look back so easily with perfect 20/20. Thanks for another great upload, your hard work is appreciated by many!
Didnt Whang use a VPN to get a Japanese Spotify account to listen to Mariya takeuchi and other city pop music?
He definitely used it to get the Japanese account so he could listen to his “weeb music”
You can get plastic love on Spotify. Look up "Miki J. - Playing Games"
In my old times we just download the music we want. And I did it recently, downloading all the album.
@@mcbill7352 is no longer there :(
I don’t like Japanese Spotify because you can only use it for a limited amount of time, then it keeps promoting to get premium. It’s not like the free version of Spotify where you can still use it but all the songs are shuffled.
Dude I just refreshed my feed after clicking on this vid to see what to watch after this and plastic love was the first video to come up in my recommendations
Opening with the Puzzle Fighter version of Sakura's theme?
Good shit dude.
And magical sound shower from Outrun.
BenGmanUk Outrun was boss , turbo Outrun was the real shit though .
@@teddrewflack400 You think? It's okay but not nearly as iconic.
they also removed macintosh plus, its an attack on our internet values!
WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTT
@@maxxcreese9911 yea the version w/ 40 mil views was removed by sony
Thank you so fucking much!!! I had no idea what happened behind the scenes and of course felt outraged. I truly appreciate having this insider info into the real deal as to how things played out!
As a Photographer I could understand however; even I understand that once a photo you've taken becomes a meme, the best thing to do is just leave it be. Just make sure you have proof that it's yours.
Finally. Plastic Love is one of my favorite music albums.
My love for it is wonderful.
You mean Variety right?
@@bigcoolboy96 Ye, plastic love is the second track.
I found this song because of a search for Vaporwave music, it didnt just pop up in my RUclips on its own. It was the starting song in a city pop compilation that i discovered. I was hooked right away by the incredibly catchy tune
as someone who works in the creative field, I can't help but wonder who ACTUALLY owns the rights? there should have been a contract or agreement written up, disclosing who owns the picture (photographer or client)
No wonder the video got nuked off my playlist late last year. Again it's youtube not having the adequate measures set for these things. I wish they had a team set to think and implement their ideas for better implementation of the copyright system. Great video btw, I didn't know the history behind the cover art of the song!
I feel for Alan. He took the pictures, he helped in making the song iconic. He deserves his share
No. He did not. He took a photo. The artist of the song made the music iconic. The song would of been the same and performed just as well with anther photo. Crediting a fucking photographer with a good song. Now I have heard everything.
@@JungleMan777 The video is so appealing to click on partially because of that photo. It’s a beautiful photo and he does deserve credit and compensation for his property that is being distributed on the internet
@@JungleMan777 so its okay to steal other people's images and put it on a song?
@@JungleMan777 yes, the song would still be the same and no he has nothing to do with the success of the song, but he still deserves credit for the photo, thats the point, its an iconic image even if it was made iconic by the internet years after it was taken, he deserved to get paid then and even more so now
@@JungleMan777 man, even if i pirate a lot of games i would never even go as entitled as being mad to the developer for putting price on their games. The picture is part of the music success, its iconic, and i highly doubt the music would be as popular in the internet if it use the original album cover. People like free things, thats good, but those who produce have their right for compensation or at least credit.
Its baffling on how many people commenting and hate Alan just for wanting credit for his work, like it or not, the dude deserve at least credit. Its RUclips that decide to handle it by taking it down, the fans being angry to a guy that just want his work to be compensated is just trashy behavior.
Its as good as piracy, and i dont think anyone that got stuff for free (stolen) have the right to be angry against the one that have produce the items you enjoy. If the photo is not there, that iconic photo, you think the music would be as popular? Will people click the vids? I would wager not. His action is far from greedy, just a man asking for what is within his right. A credit for the photo, and a compensation for future use.
I don't know how you always find such interesting topics to cover but im always happy to see your videos in my inbox. Great job as always!
Man that sucks. Hopefully he is able to get somewhere with his image.
this is random but I like the steve aoki hair, it looks good on you
The song is gone from Spotify too. I'm saddened
Bernie Gil didnt even know it was on spotify
+Justyn Lim
Yeah I just converted the youtube video to .mp3 with a program and put it on a cassette tape. I didn't even know the video got taken down until now.
Glam Stachee ive been using soundcloud most city pop songs can be found there
Magical Sound Shower for bg music?
*Respect +100*
I became a subscriber today, I have been binging your stuff for the last week and I learned a lot about what Ive been missing since I fell into the Army and later Marvel work life where its almost impossible to keep up with whats been happening online. Thanks for this site Whang. Its very interesting to see the history of social internet, even from the outside.
Future funk / Metro pop are really good niche genres. It's not like J Pop; the women tend to sing in normal tones. And the heavy use on wind instruments with heavy bass added by modern remixes really make them a distinct, and genuinely enjoyable form of music.
CAPSLOCKCAPSLOCK CAPSLOCKCAPSLOCKCAPSLOCKCAPSLOCK its called vapor wave you idiots.
Hiley Moon It isn't vaporwave, douche.
@M Suzuki Good list, but DAOKO uses a lot of autotune.
@@LaYamiUwU no, the definition of future funk is same as vaporwave. Music that use of samples from 80's J-Pop / dicso / funk
So let me get this right Alan had no problem with the record company using his images when she was "kinda" known without getting paid but once she blows up on the internet he then has an issue with it? interesting
He's greedy bastard. Good riddance
No he was quite disappointed. And the video was using his art without even a credit. All he wanted in the video was to be credited.
@@brendalee1215 well he fucked that up then didn't he?
From now on people will know it's a lovely photo taken by an old git that doesn't know how RUclips works.
フレドリックフレドリック Yep using other peoples work without credit is how youtubers should go about their content...
@@jazzmaster909 the photo was NOT, WAS NEVER the point of the upload.
it's been deleted again... :(
Warner Music probably took it down because they just released a music video 10 days ago.
I've found that some 95% of conflict stems from misunderstanding. We need to spread the word on this situation, and hopefully help poor Alan restore his reputation.
*Your videos are like the good type of flashbacks*
Never new this song was so popular, just thought it was recommended to me because I occasionally listen to 80s - 70's Japanese funk and jazz
4:08 Man, the O player screwed that one up...
Also, yeah, I saw the Brian Peppers video in my feed waaaay before I actually watched it and subscribed to you. Actually, it was Vinny from Vinesauce recommending your video on John Titor that got me hooked. The Peppers vid was my second watch, though, growing up with YTMND and all.
I was already subbed when Vinny rec’d but if I hadn’t been, that would have done it
I listen to a lot of Japanese music so it wasn't a crazy recommendation for me. Absolutely loved the recommendation of course!
I'm glad the whole thing has been cleared up now.
You should make an update on the reupload.
Oh wow 😂😂 i thought “Simon Gotch Buried Enzo Amore” was popping up more than other videos, but I have a bunch of shoot interviews in my recommends, so I didn’t think anything of it.
Noel Torres same here! are all of Whangs subs here cause of a recommendation off of a wwe video???
DUDE THATS CRAZYY!! I always thought of it because I watched an old WWF clip never thought of it like that
Czech M8 I was bingeing wwe vids about this time last year and then whang’s vid on the wwe arcade game’s various endings and have been watching ever since
Yea! I think my first Whang! (hehe) was for that Fire Pro Wrestling “Darkest Video Game Ending) vid.
What an epic & sad tale for so many involved, it's like a blessing and curse at the same time for Alan
Thank you Wang. You got me into some of the best music that I have ever listened to. Thx alot. 🔥🔥🔥❤❤❤
The crazy thing about this is how the record labels were apparently ok with pirated uploads of the song...
There were probably fans who bought the official tracks as well, I guess they reckoned that the piracy was worth money they otherwise wouldn't be making.
The label did at first but then they were like “fuck it it’s too big to deal with”
A lot of old japanese songs are just uploaded by random people lol, not by any official channel I think its that japan uses niconico
They were copyright claimed. So all the revenue went to the labels
@@SpeakerFan Incorrect they were claimed but no money was going to the label in the Plastic Love situation for two reasons
1. The 8 minute version of Plastic Love is not an official released single most likely some kind of mythical fan upload.
2. They didn't have the rights for the photo and that could of done them in, in court.
3. They also were gaining mad press from it so yeah it did in a roundabout way benefit the new Mariya Live documentary, several 40th anniversary editions of older Mariya Albums and a new mini EP
I bet Mariya is super stoked to have more fans internationally to enjoy her work.
I want to thank the RUclips algorithm for making the original video so popular, just to have it taken down, and Whang to come in and make a video about it, that ended up on my suggestions, just so I could discover this channel.
That Brian Peppers is how I found out about your channel and never left
"The record label f'd me over, so I'm going to f the 10s of millions of fans over."
As always this channel is a great way to keep up with these stories of the internet!
Good video!!
Welcome back to Wavywebsurf, and today we'll be looking at whatever happened to Plastic Love.
smocaine lmao so true
ITS YA BOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIII
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Wow, what a story. One photo, changed history basically and revalued an old photographer's work. That's pretty amazing!
This video introduced me to the story and the song, and in turn to citypop. Thanks Whang!
Me: *browses RUclips watching wrestling videos*
RUclips: SIMON GOTCH BURIES ENZO AMORE
2:35 Magical Sound Shower? IS THAT F'N MAGICAL SOUND SHOWER FROM OUTRUN? WHANG!! I LUV YOU SOOOOOO MUCHHH
its funny i was watching di-cast restoration and your video about the thrift store mystery body showed up in my feed im not complaining your now one of my favorite youtubers.
THIS IS WHY WE BOOTLEG THINGS!!!
Before it’s gone forever.
I bootleg things to litterally not contribute to the corrupt companies.
Most movie, music and even a lot of video games are just manufactured propaganda.
And that's why we save crazy clips off of RUclips. I have a clip of two dudes arguing on a subway about boning women. It's been deleted twice over on RUclips, yet I still have the clip 😁
@@Diggy22 That sounds like something you could see every Tuesday lol
@@Stinkyremy you dont buy anything/support particular artists?
@@jeppyjep Not at all, I dodn't think I have bought any music for myself since the early 00s when I grabbed 2 or 3 CDs at xmas. I have bought others a few CDs for gifts.
I don't buy movies either.
I do support video games but not souless corpo devs like EA, activision ect
And here I thought my 'impeccable music taste' was the reason it was in my recommendations xD
Loving the magical sound shower you snuck into this video
I watch so many shoot interviews that I didn’t realize “Simon Gotch Buries Enzo Amore” was an algorithm thing lol.
The fuck is a "shoot interview"?
@@michaelhaydenbell "Shoot Interview" is an interview where a pro wrestler speaks honestly about his or her career and about the professional wrestling industry as a whole. In wrestling two terms used often "work" which is working a match, scripting ect. the term "shoot" comes from shoot fighting aka Mix Martial Arts, legit fighting or just being legit.
Alan has the right to do this. Imagine if one of your works has been used without any thanks to you. I would be even more mad than him.
LETS GO! I love that the absolute classic S tier SF balrog theme is playing while you speak 💯
Alan should showcase all of his work around different countries in major cities and sell his work if he owns it. I'd buy some of his stuff!!!
Alan handled the situation extremely wrong
+CJ alicea He wanted the picture removed not the song.
CJ alicea The dude is like 55+ years plus.
Yeah but no. I was his art and he was left in the dust with nothing. One big thing artists get angry over is not crediting art.
@@fuchfred4646 yeah we watched the video. What he still did was in bad taste. Him not removing the strike further proves that.
Okay
hey man thank you for putting your research in the discription!
Only real fans remember when "Plastic Lover" was actually "Sona Main"
damn
I can still feel the nostalgia..