SYNTHETIC POP CAN NOURISH THE SOUL. . .
Five and a half decades later, the dog days have once again been livened
up by a cartoon combo serving up high-gloss bubblegum. In what has
turned out to be an
extremely dull 2025 musical summer,
we needed a rescue—and South Korea has sent us, quite literally, some
superheroes: the stars of Netflix’s smash animated movie
KPop Demon Hunters,
a power-vocalizing, monster-slaughtering girl-group trio who call
themselves Huntr/x (stylized in all-caps as HUNTR/X and pronounced
“HUN-tricks”). Like the Archies, Huntr/x does not technically exist,
even though actual flesh-and-blood humans performed the group’s songs.
That includes “Golden,” the soundtrack’s lead single, which hit No. 1 on
the
Hot 100
this week after a steady climb through most of the summer. Like the TV
movie it came from—the sleeper hit of summer ’25, and now
Netflix’s second-biggest movie of all time—the stirring “Golden” is a reminder that
televised confections have generated some of our sturdiest hits. Synthetic pop
can nourish the soul.
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