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My 20th birthday special, this is basically my own concept of "In The Virtual End" esque video, with the music Big in Japan by Alphaville. Just like In The Virtual End, I decided to remake nearly shot per shot of the original music video albeit with simplifications. About Big in Japan: "Big in Japan" is the debut single of the German synth-pop band Alphaville from their 1984 album Forever Young. Marian Gold developed most of the lyrics while visiting a dentist. The theme was based on two friends who were involved in the sordid drug scene of Berlin's Zoo station. The refrain "big in Japan" symbolises the idea of being successful in another world, a fantasy about being drug-free. Gold said: "That line has a certain meaning. It means that if you're a complete loser, you're telling other people, 'I'm not a loser because in Japan I'm really big.' It's the lie of the loser and it fitted perfectly into the story of these junkies, which the song is about, in a very tragic way." Gold later explained: "We originally weren’t sure whether we should put it on the album, because it’s a bit autobiographical in that it reflects my time in West Berlin in the late 70s, with the drug scene around the train station and the zoo, and all the underground things. It has nothing to do with Japan." Thank you for geuninely watching this! #anniversary