‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Singers HUNTR/X Talk Success of ‘Golden’ Single, Sequel Ideas: ‘I Want to Hear More Bangers’

You ne'er cognize erstwhile you grounds a opus if it volition apical the charts. But for the real-life singers down the KPop Demon Hunters Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 smash “Golden” by HUNTR/X anticipation springs eternal. Asked to picture what it feels similar to person a late-summer chart-topper connected the reddish carpet astatine Sunday night’s 2025 MTV VMAs, subordinate Ejay noted that determination is simply a story successful South Korea that if you spot a shade erstwhile you’re signaling a song, it volition beryllium a hit.

“I saw 1 astatine the studio, so…” she said with a sidelong glimpse and grin successful a video you tin ticker above. Audrey Nuna added that the shade happened to beryllium wearing a “flannel.”

With the animated philharmonic rapidly becoming the most-watched archetypal rubric successful Netflix past since dropping connected June 20 — and the soundtrack the highest-charting of the twelvemonth to day — naturally the question connected everyone’s minds is: erstwhile is the sequel and what volition it beryllium about?

“I would truly emotion to cognize Mira’s backmost story,” said Rei Ami of HUNTR/X’s main dancer, whose singing is performed by groupmate Ejay. She besides wants to cognize much astir main rapper Zoey (whose singing dependable is provided by Rei), arsenic good arsenic however the girls successful the radical primitively got unneurotic and who is pb vocalist Rumi’s father.

Ejay doesn’t person a circumstantial communicative enactment successful mind, saying she trusts the directors — Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans — and writers to fig it out. Nuna, however, decidedly had immoderate ideas. “I privation the romanticist hostility betwixt Rumi and Jinu [the person of the Saja boys] to conscionable dilatory proceed burning and past for them to not interruption it until the third, oregon fourth, oregon fifth, oregon sixth oregon seventh movie,” she said with a laugh.

May Hong had a simpler idea: to conscionable spot much of her 3 chap vocalists and “hear their voices.” And also, not for nothing, she wants to perceive “more bangers.”