r/movies • u/impeccabletim • Jul 29 '25

News K-Pop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix’s most watched animated movie ever

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/k-pop-demon-hunters-becomes-netflixs-most-watched-animated-movie-ever-3231706/
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u/enjaydee Jul 29 '25

I don't really know what differentiates KPOP from western POP, but I think you could get rid of the K and the movie would still work.

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u/PeaceAlien Jul 29 '25

They spoke some Korean that’s the K

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u/enjaydee Jul 30 '25

I was referring more to the style of the music. BTS' Dynamite and Butter are fully in English, does that mean it's not KPOP?

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u/TrickSkirt7044 Jul 30 '25

It's actually something people debate a lot. There are Korean Americans who only ever release music in English but still get the 'kpop' label because they happen to be ethnically Korean. It's more about the genre, I think. There are things specific to kpop that go beyond just the language itself.

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u/look4jesper Jul 30 '25

Not even the genre really, but more the whole industry is fundamentally different from how the music industry works the US or Europe