A city-pop career rediscovered decades laterSourced
Her 1980s records were not hits.
Decades later, listeners found them.
Tomoko Aran released nine albums between 1981 and 1990, without major hits under her own name at the time. Interest returned with the city-pop revival in the 2010s. Her 1983 song Midnight Pretenders was sampled in the Weeknd's 2022 track Out of Time.
A song can find
its audience decades later.
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