Plastic soul
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Plastic soul is a stylized form of soul music produced largely by white pop artists in the 1970s and 1980s, marked by deliberate imitation and an openly synthetic character.
Paul McCartney referenced the phrase as the name of the Beatles 1965 album Rubber Soul,[1] which was inspired by the term "plastic soul".[2] In a studio conversation taped in June 1965 after recording the first take of "I'm Down", McCartney says "Plastic soul, man. Plastic soul".[3]