{"id":145990,"date":"2025-07-29T15:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=145990"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:07:51","slug":"monsta-x-and-shinee-some-of-the-inspo-behind-the-kpop-demon-hunters-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/monsta-x-and-shinee-some-of-the-inspo-behind-the-kpop-demon-hunters-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"MONSTA X and SHINee: Some of the inspo behind the KPop Demon Hunters movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KPop Demon Hunters<\/strong> dropped on<strong> Netflix<\/strong> on June 20, 2025, and it has become a colossal hit in its own right. The animated film is topping charts, turning heads, and even landing its original song \u201cGolden\u201d at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. But have you ever thought about actual, real-life idols who inspired the characters in this K-pop-influenced film? BLACKPINK&#8217;s Jennie, BTS&#8217; Jimin, and Felix from Stray Kids have been name-dropped by the movies&#8217; creators, but guess what? They&#8217;re not the only references!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/983bBbJx0Mk?si=S5f8Y3em9hGk9o2I\" title=\"&quot;Soda Pop&quot; Official Lyric Video | KPop Demon Hunters | Sony Animation\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/983bBbJx0Mk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Designers<strong> Wi Hyun Song<\/strong> and <strong>Min Hong<\/strong> spilled the tea to media outlet Hankyung about how the antagonist of the story, Jinu, references <strong>EXO\u2019s Kai facial <\/strong>expressions. And when it comes to Jinu&#8217;s boy group (Saja Boys), Min Hong dove deep into<strong> MONSTA X<\/strong> and <strong>SHINee<\/strong>\u2019s choreographies to create \u201cnatural movements\u201d from &#8220;local groups.&#8221; These references couldn&#8217;t be more on point, as the choreography for &#8220;Soda Pop&#8221; could take inspiration from dance routines like &#8220;Married to the Music&#8221; by SHINee and &#8220;Beautiful&#8221; by MONSTA X.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1950215732853174567\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The animator of Kpop Demon Hunters said he referenced the choreography of Monsta X and SHINee while working on the dance scenes for Saja Boys. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/chVBxWev13\">pic.twitter.com\/chVBxWev13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; About Music (@AboutMusicYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1950215732853174567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>KPop Demon Hunters revolves around the girl group <strong>HUNTR\/X<\/strong>, and especially their leader Rumi, voiced by Arden Cho, protecting South Korea from demons as they slay the stage and make bops. But Jinu, voiced by Ahn Hyo Seop, and his boy group (Saja Boys) will seek to destroy HUNTR\/X\u2019s plans to protect humanity. In the end, KPop Demon Hunters definitely feels like the ultimate love letter to K-pop with a story like this and references from some of the most iconic groups in the genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KPop Demon Hunters dropped on Netflix on June 20, 2025, and it has become a colossal hit in its own right. The animated film is topping charts, turning heads, and even landing its original song \u201cGolden\u201d at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. But have you ever thought about actual, real-life idols who inspired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":145994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,1399],"tags":[3460],"class_list":{"0":"post-145990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-movies","10":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}