You never know when you record a song if it will top the charts. But for the real-life singers behind the KPop Demon Hunters Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 smash “Golden” by HUNTR/X hope springs eternal. Asked to describe what it feels like to have a late-summer chart-topper on the red carpet at Sunday night’s 2025 MTV VMAs, member Ejay noted that there is a myth in South Korea that if you see a ghost when you’re recording a song, it will be a hit.
“I saw one at the studio, so…” she said with a sidelong glance and smile in a video you can watch above. Audrey Nuna added that the ghost happened to be wearing a “flannel.”
With the animated musical quickly becoming the most-watched original title in Netflix history since dropping on June 20 — and the soundtrack the highest-charting of the year to date — naturally the question on everyone’s minds is: when is the sequel and what will it be about?
“I would really love to know Mira’s back story,” said Rei Ami of HUNTR/X’s main dancer, whose singing is performed by groupmate Ejay. She also wants to know more about main rapper Zoey (whose singing voice is provided by Rei), as well as how the girls in the group originally got together and who is lead singer Rumi’s father.
Ejay doesn’t have a specific story line in mind, saying she trusts the directors — Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans — and writers to figure it out. Nuna, however, definitely had some ideas. “I want the romantic tension between Rumi and Jinu [the leader of the Saja boys] to just slowly continue burning and then for them to not break it until the third, or fourth, or fifth, or sixth or seventh movie,” she said with a laugh.
May Hong had a simpler idea: to just see more of her three fellow vocalists and “hear their voices.” And also, not for nothing, she wants to hear “more bangers.”
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