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How the West was won: K-pop’s great assimilation gambit
['Sheldon Pearce']
TPR: The Public's Radio
Rojas was the first musician recruited to work on the Netflix animated musical KPop Demon Hunters, and he quickly recommended Ejae to co-creator Maggie Kang.
KPop Demon Hunters is one of several properties born of the modern K-pop industry to be nominated by the Recording Academy this year.
But KPop Demon Hunters is, first and foremost, a musical, and it is more a musical about K-pop than of K-pop.
As a result of its many cooks, KPop Demon Hunters has a complex, sometimes contradictory view of what makes a song K-pop.
There is a sense in which you could think of KPop Demon Hunters, “APT.” and Katseye as K-pop’s commercial ideal: the promotional system working as intended, moving toward ubiquity and maximum profitability.