10:03am Big In Japan by Alphaville from Forever Young
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Alphaville - Forever Young (Sub. Español + Lyrics)

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5:10am Forever Young by Alphaville
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✨Alphaville✨Big in Japan

"Big in Japan" es ese temazo de 1984 que puso a Alphaville en el mapa y que, curiosamente, mucha gente baila sin pararse a pensar de qué va realmente.

No es una canción sobre ser famoso en el extranjero, sino que tiene un trasfondo mucho más oscuro y real: habla de la lucha contra la adicción a las drogas en el Berlín de los 80.
La frase "Big in Japan" era una expresión que se usaba para decir que, aunque aquí seas un desastre o no seas nadie, en algún lugar remoto (como Japón) podrías ser alguien importante.
Es una metáfora sobre el autoengaño, sobre crearse un mundo paralelo para no afrontar la cruda realidad que tienes delante.

Es ironía pura envuelta en un sintetizador impecable.
Un himno del synth-pop que demuestra que se puede hacer música para las pistas de baile con una letra que te deja el cuerpo helado si te paras a escucharla de verdad.

🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

#alphaville #biginjapan #synthpop #80s #musica #realidad #clasicos

An old sketch of secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) in Jean Luc Godard’s SF classic Alphaville (1965) #alphaville #jeanlucgodard #movies #scifi #sciencefiction #lemmycaution
I love Alphaville’s Forever Young since discovering it when I was a teenager. This version by David Guetta, Alphaville and Ava Max is rather awesome. I am happy it exists.

https://youtu.be/JMtack-i2vw

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David Guetta, Alphaville & Ava Max - Forever Young (Lyric video)

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Ikiryō 生霊: Diamonds are Forever (*)

#FanFiction #KaigaIdol #Phoebee (Commissioned by Phoebee)
#Wss366 3/1 Side #MastoPrompt #asterisk

The music stopped with a sound like a needle scratching across a record. The club fell silent. Penlights froze in the air.

Just as the audience began to murmur, Phoebee spoke. “This is my last performance…”

The noise in the hall threatened to become a roar. The penlights drooped. Faces too stunned to cry stared at their idol. Heartbreak was moments away.

But the performer held up her hand and continued in her perkiest voice. The twinkle of little mirrors on her tea-green costume matched the gleam in her eyes. “But don’t worry, you’ll see me up here on stage just like always. It’s okay if you don’t understand. The most important person in the world does. I can sense them here. Now, I would like to sing part of a song. It’s not mine, but it’s how I feel.”

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever, and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever young

          [Forever Young, #Alphaville, 1984]

I stood in the back watching all this. With what I knew, the lyrics took on a decidedly sinister sound. The words weren't uttered by the real Phoebee, but by her doppelgänger. Young indeed, not more than a month old.

But there was someone else I was looking for: “The most important person in the world.”

I pointed to a figure stage #side. “Look, there she is.”

The figure in question was difficult to see in the sea of fans. She was petite and wore a floppy hat and heart-shaped sunglasses.

“Is that the real Phoebee?” Kao asked. She was obviously having trouble seeing our employer. “I told her not to come.”

“I guess she couldn’t resist,” I replied.

The woman onstage—the doppelgänger or perhaps an ikiryō—came up to the stage barrier and took the real Phoebee's hand. I couldn’t hear what the performer said to our client, but she joined the singer onstage.

“We need to get backstage right away,” Kao said, and we hurried toward a #side door.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Idol #NMFic #Yokai