Seam Kpop Demon Hunters Continuing to take over the world and dominate the film and music diagrams with its contagious songs and badass heroins, it is not surprising that two who strengthen women behind the scenes played an important role in bringing it all to life. Director Maggie Kang and songwriter (as well as the singing voice of the protagonist Rumi) Ejae recently sat with the press to talk about their collaboration to create the film’s iconic pop idols and their music catalog.
And yes, “Golden” started on a trip to the dentist.
Ejae clarified Lore behind the hit song while talking with IO9 and other business at a press conference for Kpop Demon Hunters today. “It was on the way to the dentist – and guess what I got in the dentist? Gold fillings. Isn’t that insane? “Ejae remembered the experience that seemed like one with a huge payment when visiting the dentist typically involves a painful cost. I got the track [idea]“She continued.
Ejae added that she didn’t know at the time of writing the songs for the film’s soundtrack that “Golden”, among other hits, would go viral after Kpop Demon Hunters‘Launch, so much less becoming one of the summer songs. But she thought the golden dental visit felt like a special moment when she cracked the song’s tune on the drive home.
“I was so excited about getting my gold filling done and going home and putting it down. [I] Had my co -author [Mark Sonnenblick] Come on zoom now and that’s how we would write. And I was like, ‘Oh my God, Mark, I have this tune. I think it’s pretty epic, ”she continued, moving toward kang that too played an important role in the brainstorming of the title track. “It was all meant to be, and then the melody idea came out really quickly. But there was obviously fine tuning that was back and forth. But the most important hook idea we got and we are like,” We’re done with it. “And we’re like ‘wait’. Literally Mark and I and I and Zoom like, ‘WE ARE WORKE ARE ALWAYS A HIT?’ As it sounded so good.
Kang shared it shortly after that she heard the rough early version of “Golden”. “I think it was in Vancouver. I know exactly where I was. I was going to the airport,” Kang remembered, saying that the film’s performing music producer, Ian Eisendrath, had called her to come on a phone call with him.
“We were on a phone call and he’s like,” Maggie, I just want you to, I just need you to listen to it Right now‘“Kang continued.” I was like, “Okay,” so I just take out my AirPods and I listen to it. And I’m like … I heard the few notes in the beginning and then I just had tears. I knew it was. I was like ‘This is it‘It’s so magical; Like from the very beginning, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, we finally got it.’ Then I started crying, and then I cried more because it gets better and better. “
The process of landing on the song as we know it came down to the perfect balance between k-pop and film music magic. “It is definitely a different approach because you have to follow the story a lot and you have to understand the characters and what they go through [in] Each scene, ”Ejae said of beating the balance between making a good pop song and a good song for a musical. Kang would have the trio of Huntr/X-Rumi, Mira and Zoey-to feel like a fully elaborated band, to the point where the co-instructor requested that Ejae continued as the song voice for Rumi.
Kang also guided the Ejae and Sonnenblick on how to use the music they created to operate Kpop Demon Hunters‘History. “I come from a k-pop world, so I’m about, ‘What’s a great tune? What’s a catchy hook? What’s a good concept?’ That’s always what I’m thinking about, ”Ejae explained. “Even with ‘Golden’ I needed a title that just clings – ‘Golden’ sticksDo you know? That’s what I focus on and Mark focuses on the story, so many of us went back and forth and politicized each other. “
“I love by the way, but in pop form it can be a little different,” she continued. “Sometimes you could musical because you say a lot of things it could be order sometimes. As a pop writer, we try to avoid it.”
In the end, Ejae and Sonneblick leaned on each other to remind themselves to balance the fine line of making the film’s songs. “[I’d] Say, ‘Oh, that sounds weird’ and then Mark would tell me, ‘Hmm, it’s out of story. I know it’s a really cool line, Ejae, but let’s return to the story, ‘”Ejae concluded.
“So it was a lot back and forth; it was really, really challenging, and I remember Mark and I was like, ‘This is so hard, but if we pull this off, we are freaking geniuses.’ And we pulled it off.
Kpop Demon Hunters now streams on Netflix.
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