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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2705 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 10, 2025

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I have been absolutely addicted to the song "Golden" from k-pop demon hunters on Netflix.

I'm not the only one, apparently it's a huge chart topper.

The story of the lead vocalist is pretty fascinating. She was part of some k-pop training academy but they never launched her career cuz she was "too old" 7 years ago. She left them and went into composing songs. She was good at that, got some of her songs picked up by other famous k-pop groups and then got tapped to write the songs for the k-pop demon hunters movie. Well she was demoing the songs for the studio, and they thought "you sound great" so she got the lead role. Now she is the biggest (maybe second biggest) k-pop star ever.

The group just recently did their first live performance on jimmy Kimmel.

I have been absolutely addicted to the song "Golden" from k-pop demon hunters on Netflix.

It sounds to me like one of these songs that parody a genre by ticking every box. Designed to be perfect, but disturbingly generic. Like a "house style" PonyXL face.

Designed to be perfect, but disturbingly generic.

That's the movie's whole shtick. It's the emotional equivalent of ludicrously empty calories. This takes real skill to accomplish, and I'm genuinely impressed with how well the movie and the music really present as the apotheosis of pop. It's the perfect emotional dessert--utterly devoid of nutritive value.

That's interesting. I thought it had a lot to say about how shame can fester and turn into something worse, about how you don't really accept someone if you try and cover up the unsavory parts of them, about how when you lie to your friends because you're afraid of what they might think, the LIE is much more important than what you originally were afraid of them judging you for.

Maybe these seem really straightforward or trite, but it's a kids movie, and those are pretty good kids movie morals.

I found it really confusing on mixing up shame and guilt together. Rumi is ashamed of being half demon but she's not guilty the same way the guy who sold out his family for a comfortable life.

This sounds like something a Douglas Coupland's character would say.

Generation X, baby.

More like Shampoo Planet. IIRC, that's the book with the protagonist celebrating stuff like nationwide homogeniety of goods and services.

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