"The creators said they wanted to establish this as a group with some smashes. This song needs to stand on its own as a K-pop banger. It's giving Blackpink. It's got those big 808 electronic bass drums and very dexterous rapping and then you have that moment before the chorus with lush vocals in English and Korean."
"KPop Demon Hunters mania - that stretch last summer and fall when the movie placed four songs in the Billboard Hot 100, Huntr/x became the first K-pop girl group to have a No. 1 song, Netflix made $24 million at the box office off a movie that had already been streaming for two months, and a third of every elementary-school classroom dressed as Rumi for Halloween."
KPop Demon Hunters transitioned from peak summer-fall mania to Oscar contention, where it leads for Best Animated Feature and Best Song. The film's soundtrack, featuring K-pop group Huntr/x, demonstrated remarkable cultural impact through chart dominance, box office success, and widespread Halloween costume adoption. The movie's songs possess significant staying power beyond initial viral moments. Music analysts examined five tracks from the soundtrack, breaking down their effectiveness through production techniques and narrative functions. 'Golden' achieved historic status as the first K-pop song to win a Grammy in February. The film's opening track 'How It's Done' establishes the three protagonist demon hunters as K-pop superstars while functioning as a standalone K-pop hit, incorporating production elements reminiscent of Blackpink with electronic bass, multilingual vocals, and character development.
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