‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Stars Audrey Nuna, Ejae and Rei Ami aka HUNTR/X on the Global Success of Netflix’s Most-Watched Film of All Time [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
Emotionally resonant story aside, you can’t talk about KPop Demon Hunters without talking about the soundtrack. Songs like “Golden,” “Takedown,” “Your Idol,” “Soda Pop,” and “How It’s Done” have been looping on every playlist and radio station.
In addition to reaching number one and Top 10 positions on multiple music charts, the film is the first film soundtrack to reach the Billboard Hot 100 with four of its songs occupying the top ten. It’s another surreal achievement when HUNTR/X and the Saja Boys – the two fictional music groups in the movie – surpass real K-Pop groups like Blackpink and BTS on Spotify.
Even the sing-along version of the film – which was released two months after its Netflix release – managed to gross $19 million at the box office. It is the first Netflix film to ever finish in first place over the weekend box office, and it’s not even for its opening.
When it came time to speak to HUNTR/X themselves – Ejae (Rumi’s singing voice), Audrey Nuna (Mira’s singing voice), and Rei Ami (Zoey’s singing voice) – I asked them about their experiences recording the film’s music, but I also had to ask them how they’ve been reacting to the film’s global success.
Clearly, they’re still trying to make sense of it all.
KL: You guys put so much personality and heart into your respective characters through music. I was just really curious about that creative process and whether you guys collaborated with your respective voice actors, since the characters of Rumi, Mira and Zoey have two voices.
Ejae: We didn’t get to physically collaborate with the voice actors, but we definitely knew. I knew who was casted and I think it was just… the directors did an incredible job of being able to kind of balance that out with our voices and their acting. But yeah, in the end, the result was just amazing. It was really cool to see them.
KL: You guys are so experienced in dance choreography as singers, as performers. Was it different at all when you were performing these songs knowing that the choreography that your characters are going through was fight choreography?
Rei: You know, I actually never really thought of that! I think I was more so looking at the actual stage choreography than the fight. But now that you say that, I’m going to have to rewatch it and get back to you on that!
Audrey: I definitely think that kind of energy was asked of us, whether we even realized it consciously or not was just like…
Rei: Yeah.
Audrey: A lot of energy. So I think it organically kind of figured itself out in a way.
Rei: I feel like “Takedown” and “How It’s Done” were…
Ejae: Yeah, especially those two.
Rei: Those were really heavy bangers.
KL: As I’m listening to the songs again, I just picture, were you guys given props? It sounds like you guys are actually jumping around. You guys are slaying demons in that recording booth!
Audrey and Rei: [laughs and proceeds to hack demons]
Ejae: Well, Ian [Eisendrath] (music producer) did direct some parts! So there was a dancing practice scene and he made me do burpees [laughs]
Audrey: Really?
Rei: That’s hilarious.
Ejae: I had to be out of breath! But no, he wants it. He wants the perfect take, you know what I mean? Which I totally want too. So yeah, it was a lot of fun recording.
KL: I was at the karaoke party in Toronto.
Audrey: Nice
KL: Incredible experience. Does it surprise you guys at all, at just how much this movie has been resonating with people of different cultures?
Ejae: Yes.
Rei: Yes.
Ejae: Like, even now, I can’t believe it.
Rei: Every day.
Ejae: It doesn’t feel real still. Not fully yet.
KL: When was that first “Oh. Oh God, this is huge” moment for you?
Audrey: I can’t even–
Rei: There’s been so many…
Audrey: They just keep coming! They just keep rolling in. What was the first one for you guys? I’m really trying to think.
Ejae: Honestly, for me it was H Mart. I was at H Mart in my pajamas and my cap on. And I’m hearing my friend’s like “Wait, is that Ejae’s voice?” And it was going “this is what it sounds like~”
Rei: Wait, it was “What It Sounds Like” and not even “Golden”?
Ejae: Yeah!
Rei: See, that’s even better!
Ejae: “Golden” happened right afterward!
Audrey: H Mart has good taste, man.
Ejae: We love H Mart.
Rei: I was eating at 설음탕집 (seolleongtang restaurant) in K-Town like a week ago, and there was a TV on and all of a sudden I see Maggie, our director talking, and then I hear “We’re going up up up” and I’m like [stares] and I almost got triggered! I was like “[hands shaking] Oh my God.” And then I look over and then my boyfriend’s like “[pointing at the TV] Oh my God.” And I’m like, oh my God.
Ejae: Those are the best moments.
Rei: And then I think the 아줌마 (auntie) behind the counter saw and I was like that [hides face], and I just kind of quietly exited. Obviously paid and then I exited.
Audrey: [laughs] No, just dipped.
Ejae: Did you have one too?
Audrey: Yeah. When I was in Korea, a few weeks after the movie came out, I saw this grandpa street performing on a very… I don’t actually know what the traditional Korean instrument is… but he was doing a cover of “Golden” right outside the train.
KL: Wow.
Audrey: And also just these little street food stalls had started playing tracks from the movie. And I was like… that’s some deep inside the crevice of culture type of stuff.
Ejae: Yeah, that really is. Like street performance? Yeah that’s it.
Audrey: From like a Beats pill! Like selling tteokbokki type of thing!
Ejae: That means it’s a hit!
Rei: It’s the older gen too!
Audrey: Yeah.
Rei: So it’s like… if they’re listening…
Ejae: That’s really cool.
KL: I think those are just incredible examples of just how much of a global phenomenon your music and your movie has become. One more time, congratulations. Thank you so much for an incredible movie.
Ejae, Audrey, and Rei: Thank you!
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