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Speaker 1: From The Australian. This is the weekend edition of The Front.

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Speaker 1: I'm Claire Harvey. There's a band you need to know about,

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Speaker 1: Hunt Tricks, three smoking hot Korean girls. They're dominating music

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Speaker 1: charts internationally and they've got a smash hit movie on Netflix.

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Speaker 1: And they're not even real. They're cartoon characters. That is,

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Speaker 1: they're the stars of k pop Demon Hunters, a Netflix

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Speaker 1: animated blockbuster that has swept up every kid in Australia

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Speaker 1: and much of the rest of the world in the

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Speaker 1: magic of their adventure. But this isn't some ai nonsense.

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Speaker 1: This is real music, written and performed by real people,

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Speaker 1: all wrapped up in a kids movie that's like the

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Speaker 1: New Toy Story, a cultural phenomenon will be talking about

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Speaker 1: for a long time. Yet if you've never heard of this,

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Speaker 1: or if you're a super fan, you'll be singing along

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Speaker 1: by the end of today's episode. Here's The Australian's audio

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Speaker 1: lead and a musician in his own right.

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Speaker 2: Jasper League, a song from an American animated film about

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Speaker 2: Korean pop stars, is now topping the US charts.

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Speaker 3: I was a girls dog, Jasper.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the world might have ended. There's a

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Speaker 1: cartoon at the top of the Billboard Music charts with

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Speaker 1: a song that I actually quite.

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Speaker 3: Like to.

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Speaker 1: Go. Is this ridiculous this song Golden?

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Speaker 4: No, it's not. I watched this movie for quote unquote

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Speaker 4: research the other day, which was absurd in its own way.

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Speaker 4: Like this forty one year old man watching K Pop

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Speaker 4: Demon Hunters on my phone on my commute to work,

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Speaker 4: blow and behold, I found myself totally transfixed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you came into work and you will fully across

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Speaker 1: exactly what the Sarga voice had done wrong.

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Speaker 4: That is the magic of this movie. And it's the

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Speaker 4: magic of a lot of the songwriting as well, like

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Speaker 4: there is nowhere for your mind to wander when under

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Speaker 4: the onslaught of a K pop song.

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Speaker 1: So what is K Pop Demon Hunters actually about? I

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Speaker 1: asked the experts in my household.

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Speaker 5: Guys, we're going to talk about K Pop Demon Hunters?

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Speaker 6: Great, we love capop Demon Hunters. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: How many times have you watched it? For in all

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Speaker 5: the songs by heart? Right?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Okay, So can you tell me what the plot is?

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Speaker 7: Well, is there this big demon fire king called Geema

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Speaker 7: and he's the king of demons and he feeds on

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Speaker 7: soul he kind of keeps the demons at his prisoners sorta,

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Speaker 7: and so he was, like.

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Speaker 1: Things get a bit convoluted here, Fire King. Gema's goal

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Speaker 1: is to break the Honmon.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the Honmon is like a barrier that keeps the

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Speaker 6: demon world out of the human world.

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Speaker 1: And it's a mystical creative force harnessed and protected by

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Speaker 1: the all girl K pop group Hunterricks, made up of

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Speaker 1: singers Roomy, Zoe and Mirror.

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Speaker 6: Mirror is the black sheep of her family and she

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Speaker 6: also once wore a sleeping bag to the Medgala and

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Speaker 6: like everyone was praising her for that.

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Speaker 1: Because like Huntricks's sworn enemies are demon boy band Saga Boys.

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Speaker 1: They were sent to the human world to do Gema's

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Speaker 1: dirty work. They're fronted by Genu, who sold his soul

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Speaker 1: to Gema in exchange for the voice of an angel.

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Speaker 1: Like Blues legend Robert Johnson meeting the Devil at the Crossroads. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: Hunterricks need to beat Sga Boys at the Idle Awards

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Speaker 1: to save the Hornmone and all of humanity.

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Speaker 5: And how much do you love K pop Demon Hunters?

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 5: Out of ten.

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Speaker 6: Eleven me nine.

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Speaker 5: Is it the best movie you've ever seen. Yes.

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Speaker 1: I'm also joined by the Australians entertainment reporter Jordie Gray.

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Speaker 1: She's conveniently just come back from a trip to Soul.

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Speaker 8: There's so much bootleg merchandise and then you have the

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Speaker 8: music just blasting, you know, tinny little speakers, or you

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Speaker 8: go into the big K beauty stores and they'd be

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Speaker 8: playing it. It took me a while to clock it

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Speaker 8: because I hadn't heard the song Golden before going there,

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Speaker 8: but I kept hearing the same song because it is

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Speaker 8: so instantly memorable. I was like, what is this song

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Speaker 8: that is following me?

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Speaker 1: Are you surprised that Golden is the top of the

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Speaker 1: Billboard charts? That there are three other songs or at

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Speaker 1: least two other songs from K pop demon Hunters right

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Speaker 1: at the top of the child was there six?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 8: Six songs in the top fifty. So Golden is number one,

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Speaker 8: which is wild. But I think it also speaks to

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Speaker 8: summer this year. Despite major releases from Lord Miley Cyrus

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Speaker 8: the weekend, nothing has really crystallized into the song and

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Speaker 1: Jess, But what's going on in these songs? Why are

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Speaker 1: babies emotional? Sort of love bar?

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Speaker 4: I'm no K pop expert, but I've spent a lot

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Speaker 4: of the last few days listening to K pop, and

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Speaker 4: first of all, I've become a twice fan. I love them.

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Speaker 4: Maybe if there's a musical formula, K pop is totally derivative,

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Speaker 4: but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's very creatively derivative.

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Speaker 4: So K pop songwriters and producers borrow from all these

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Speaker 4: different styles. But what's interesting about it is their ability

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Speaker 4: to combine different styles and elements into one tightly packed

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Speaker 1: There's a bit of Kelly Clarks and vibes, isn't there,

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Speaker 1: And that the lyrics is sung at like full volume.

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Speaker 1: I felt like my lungs were going to burst listening

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Speaker 1: to the pre chorus of Golden.

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Speaker 4: Maybe the one thing that the genre doesn't do at

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Speaker 4: all is subtlety. Everything is kind of cranked up to eleven.

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Speaker 4: So in a song like Golden, with this huge romantic

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Speaker 4: melody starts to build in the pre course, Room, who

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Speaker 4: is voiced by EJ in this case, she is kind

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Speaker 4: then you go, Okay, surely that's it, and then it

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Speaker 4: kind of explodes in the post chorus, and then she

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Speaker 4: starts belting like what is at the absolute threshold of

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Speaker 4: her vocal range, which was totally intentional to put the

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Speaker 4: song in that key to sort of elicit that kind

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Speaker 4: connects to the moments where she's really struggling to hit

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Speaker 4: those notes in certain rehearsals and she starts to kind

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Speaker 4: of lose her voice voices, and then the main melody

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Speaker 4: is then also provided some amazing material for the film

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Speaker 4: composer to use throughout the movie in different ways as well.

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Speaker 1: This is taking me back, you know, fifteen years to

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Speaker 1: of songs around that had these massive, kind of romantic melodies.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, when I heard it, it made me think of

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Speaker 4: songs like you Know Somebody that I used to know

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Speaker 4: by Gautier or seas Chandelier. These sorts of songs are

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Speaker 4: so hard to write, and I think when writers get

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Speaker 1: It's interesting too that these songs are coming out of

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Speaker 1: is an industry, government funded industry, and yet they're able

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Speaker 1: to manufacture music that seems to me quite magical.

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Speaker 4: And you're not wrong, I mean, underestimate them at your peril,

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Speaker 4: Like these songs are enormous, the singers are good, they're

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Speaker 3: I get it. Imagine that, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 4: You know, in US pop music, if you look at

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Speaker 4: whereas with K pop it's unapologetically commercial and will the

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Speaker 4: results speak for themselves.

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Speaker 1: I want to geek out for a minute here. You've

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Speaker 1: been in the office talking about something called six eight times.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I studied music, but I have no

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Speaker 3: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, it means that I'm punishing co worker,

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Speaker 4: an annoying employee. Most rock and pop music is built

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Speaker 4: around four to four or also known as common time,

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Speaker 4: and the difference between four four and six eight is

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Speaker 4: how they're subdivided. So an example of a four to

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Speaker 4: four song would be something like this, Golden's in six eight,

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Speaker 4: six eighty is really having a moment with hits like Daisies,

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Speaker 4: you lose control ordinary?

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Speaker 3: Hang on, I know you hate ordinary?

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Speaker 4: Come on, it's ordinary?

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Speaker 1: Is that why you're so into Golden? Because you just

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Speaker 1: want the ordinary to stop being played in shop shopping?

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Speaker 4: Maybe?

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Speaker 7: Yeh?

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Speaker 1: How big is this achievement for a Korean animated group

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Speaker 8: Going by charts, they're more successful than both BTS and

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Speaker 8: Black Pink, who are the two tent pole K pop

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Speaker 8: acts in the UK. In the past decade, they have

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Speaker 8: only been three bands that have hit number one. One

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Speaker 8: of them was Little Mix, the other was like a

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Speaker 8: Hunter Tricks. It's also interesting because the writer on a

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Speaker 8: lot of the Little Mix songs worked on the K

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Speaker 8: pop demon Hunter's soundtrack.

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Speaker 1: Ah yeah, se, what do we know about the creatives

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Speaker 8: So the film's director, Maggie Kang pitched this idea of

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Speaker 8: secretly to Sony seven years ago, the peak of BTS.

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Speaker 8: So you've got greenlit basically immediately, and from what I've read,

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Speaker 8: she met very little resistance, and I think it's because

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Speaker 1: It's super confident, isn't it so confident?

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Speaker 8: Like within fifteen minutes, you're like, I've never seen anything

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Speaker 8: like this before, and this is not what I thought

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Speaker 8: something to the fact that it feels like scrolling TikTok

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Speaker 8: soup in a very pleasurable way. Like it's very overstimulating

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Speaker 4: Okay, this is our biggest show yet to the most.

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Speaker 7: Songs, the most moves, which means the most garbloading for the.

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Speaker 8: I was particularly taken by the early scene when they're

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Speaker 8: they're all like scoffing food, which is something that actual

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Speaker 8: katee pop stars are not allowed to.

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Speaker 1: Do, no famously because Korean beauty standards don't allow for

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Speaker 1: any scoffing.

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Speaker 8: No, no, no scuffing whatsoever. But that they are gorging

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Speaker 8: on carbs. And it's a very specific choice of instant

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Speaker 8: ramen pots okay type pre game ramen happy fans happy,

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Speaker 8: which I thought was like so sly and in tune

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Speaker 8: with the culture because there is an entire like stream

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Speaker 8: of content, social media content where it's just people doing

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Speaker 8: Korean grocery store halls and you just watch them eat.

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Speaker 1: Oh there's bane. Yeah, so that's just like stuffing your face.

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Speaker 8: It is stuffing your face, but this is piper specific

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Speaker 8: to stuffing your face with food you buy at Korean

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Speaker 8: So watching that, I was like, oh my gosh, it's amazing.

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Speaker 8: It's just like being on my phone.

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Speaker 1: This is why TikTok with revolutionaries because it was actually fun.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and the algorithm was so lawless and it just

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Speaker 8: have I sat down being like, my thing is watching

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So they're stuffing their faces on this plane and

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Speaker 1: then the demons take over the plane, right, and that

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Speaker 8: Yes, and they get into a fight, and I think

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Speaker 8: you know, everything's kind of pink and purple and not

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Speaker 1: There's quite a lot of mockery of the fandom, isn't

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Speaker 1: there the scenes when crowds are going wild. The crowds

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Speaker 8: Yes, but that's just how crowds are these days. I'm

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Speaker 8: know sudden people that wore a nappy to Laneway so

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Speaker 8: how that is the standard of fandom. Now, like you,

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Speaker 8: it drives people crazy.

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Speaker 3: You've got to commit. You have to commit. Coming up,

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Speaker 3: Jordi breaks.

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Speaker 1: The news that'll make my kids explode with excitement. It

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Speaker 1: was intriguing at the end of the movie, how we

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Speaker 1: twice performing one of the songs.

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Speaker 8: Yes, I believe that everyone that sings it's either a

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Speaker 8: like they are major pop songs.

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Speaker 1: It is amazing how Netflix just keeps getting it right,

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Speaker 1: Like Adolescents for good or that's all anyone was talking about.

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Speaker 3: Three months ago.

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Speaker 8: Both K Pop Demon Hunters and Adolescents arrived with very

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Speaker 8: and organically became these massive hits. I mean cap pop.

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Speaker 8: Demon Hunter's premier two months ago and now is the

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Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if it was a mistake not to release

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Speaker 3: it in cinema.

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Speaker 8: They're releasing it in cinemas this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god. Yeah here in Australia.

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Speaker 8: In Australia, so there are special single long sessions for

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Speaker 8: K Pop Demon Hunters.

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Speaker 3: I will be at one of those.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, maybe I will too.

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Speaker 5: You can come with us.

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Speaker 1: Jordy Gray is the Australian's entertainment reporter. You can read

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Speaker 1: her work anytime at the Australian dot com dot au.

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Speaker 1: This episode of the Front was hosted by me Claire

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Speaker 1: Harvey and produced by Jasper Leek, who edited the episode

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Speaker 1: and also wrote our theme.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us on the Front this week.

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Speaker 1: Our team also includes Kristen Amiot, Leat, Sam mcglow, Tiffany Dimack,

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Speaker 1: Joshua Burton and Stephanie Coombs.