Over the previous few weeks, I’ve been requested no less than a dozen occasions whether or not I’m going to overview the songs from the favored Netflix film Okay-Pop Demon Hunters. The reply continues to be “no,” although with this put up I assume it’s form of a semi-“sure.”
I need to apologize to anybody who acquired an more and more dismissive response from me when asking this query. Don’t take it personally and it wasn’t my intent to be impolite. It’s simply that it’s come up so typically that it’s turn into a working gag within the feedback part. Now, there’s a full put up to comprise all of the discourse!
In any case, as I posted on Twitter/X final week, I’m not a fan of those songs general. What’s wonderful to me is how many individuals on social media took that as an ideal offense, defending this challenge with the identical fervor they’d decide to a flesh-and-blood idol group. I assume I’m glad the challenge has hit such a nerve, even when the music isn’t for me.
The factor is, the songs are… high quality. They’re very generic and constructed upon comparatively sturdy Okay-pop tropes. There are just a few massive obstacles I can’t get previous. First, I’m not an enormous animation fan to start with — particularly this newer CGI model that merely jogs my memory of characters in an commercial for bathtub tissue. So, I haven’t watched the film and am possible lacking numerous essential context. Second, I dislike when massive tent tasks like this clean over any intricacies of an artwork kind (and at its finest, Okay-pop is artwork!) to create essentially the most palatable product potential. Regardless of the preliminary intentions had been behind these songs, that sanitized high quality is what I hear before everything.
Of the favored songs on the soundtrack, I suppose Soda Pop is my favourite. However because the web’s resident lover of vibrant boy group ideas, I’ve heard tons of of songs on this soundscape and Soda Pop doesn’t do something enjoyable or fascinating sufficient to face out. It appears like a survival present competitors monitor.
In the meantime, I get that followers are liking Golden as a result of it sounds a bit like IVE’s finest hits, however to me the execution and fake self-empowerment message really feel extra according to Rachel Platten’s Battle Track — a monitor I’ve a critical distaste for. I simply can’t get previous this. I discover it actively annoying.
Then there’s Your Idol, which is simply too cringe for me to take pleasure in. If an precise idol group had carried out it, I would be capable of look previous the lyrics but it surely simply looks like the obvious Okay-pop pastiche in an eye-rolling method.
So… yeah. In some methods I needs to be the target market for this entire challenge however the music has fallen flat for me and I don’t actually see why it’s turn into so common (past the plain attain of Netflix).