\nIs \u201cK-Pop Demon Hunters\u201d just \u201cKidz Bop\u201d K-pop? Get in. Let\u2019s talk about it. The most popular music in America right now is coming from the film \u201cK-Pop Demon Hunters.\u201d It\u2019s an animated Netflix movie about a girl group charged with saving the world and defending it against an evil boy band. I want to talk about the finale song, which is called \u201cWhat It Sounds Like.\u201d This is the song that has the most ambition, the biggest scale and maybe the most heart in all the film. You\u2019re hearing an R&B intro sung a cappella by Rumi, the main character. It almost has a Mary J. Blige tragic heaviness to it. And then as the other singers come in, Zoey and Mira, what you end up with is something like an up-tempo club number. It doesn\u2019t quite go full EDM, but it does feel like it\u2019s designed for a Hamilton- esque chant along. What started as a tender, warm, introspective ballad ends up as a powerful fight song. The movie essentially focuses on a face off between Huntr\/x, the good girl group, and Saja Boys, the evil demon boy band. Huntr\/x has \u201cGolden.\u201d Saja Boys has \u201cSoda Pop.\u201d These songs have leapt off of the Netflix screen onto the Billboard charts. When I listen to these two main songs, I do feel like there\u2019s something missing. The K-pop of the last 10 years has been sonically aggressive, chaotic, adventurous. But in the context of a film designed for children, that\u2019s probably a little too much. They do feel like almost a children\u2019s-music take on what K-pop has been, but when I hear what it sounds like, I\u2019m hearing something different. I\u2019m hearing what happens when folks who come from a K-pop background sense the scale of an audience that\u2019s waiting out in the world and are trying to reach it using any tool in their tool kit.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nytimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: The Best Song From \u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 transcript Back transcript The Best Song From \u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 The most popular music in the country right now comes from an animated Netflix film. But the big hits aren\u2019t its strongest music, according to our critic. Is \u201cK-Pop Demon Hunters\u201d just \u201cKidz Bop\u201d K-pop? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[374842,21800,23191,30286],"class_list":["post-2031942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-k-popkpop","tag-music","tag-netflix","tag-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Best-Song-From-\u2018KPop-Demon-Hunters.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}