{"id":407184,"date":"2026-05-01T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/407184\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:23:08","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-controversy-erupts-from-recent-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/407184\/","title":{"rendered":"KPop Demon Hunters Controversy Erupts From Recent Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

KPop Demon Hunters<\/a> is set to return with a sequel following the smash success of the animated musical on Netflix, but the second chapter is still years away. Luckily, Huntrix is still finding new ways to stay in the headlines, though the latest is a news bite that many might not have seen coming. Recently, at the Billboard Women in Music event, the stars of KPop Demon Hunters, Audrey Nuna, Ejae, and Rei Am, were in attendance to be honored for the night. During their speeches as a part of the festivities, the trio didn\u2019t hold anything back when it came to the difficulties they experienced in the music industry.<\/p>\n

To start, Rei Ami, the voice of KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 Zoey, didn\u2019t pull any punches when discussing her history as a part of show business, \u201cBeing a woman in this male-dominated industry is honestly a**. Sometimes we have to work twice as hard with a smile on our faces as the world nitpicks every part of our being. First, we\u2019re too skinny, and then we\u2019re too fat. It goes from, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s giving nothing\u2019 to \u2018Why is she being so extra?\u2019 It seems utterly impossible to exist. Oh, and God forbid you\u2019re confident, they\u2019ll crucify you for that. But I think that\u2019s why they\u2019re so obsessed, because, well, there\u2019s nothing more intimidating than a confident woman who knows what she wants. Our ability to persevere and show up is an absolute superpower. So thank you to all the women in this room for using their superpowers to inspire, lead, and protect. We are not too much; we are not too loud. We are exactly who the f*** we think we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huntrix Holds Nothing Back<\/p>\n

\"\"Netflix<\/p>\n

Joining her fellow band member, Ejae, the singing voice of Rumi, shared her past experiences, \u201cI rarely saw other artists who looked like me on western stages,\u201d so she aspired toward \u201cbecoming a K-pop idol. When that didn\u2019t work out, I thought I was done. But when I found songwriting, I realized that music itself never questioned me, because music doesn\u2019t see race or gender. It only asks for the truth. And when I brought my full truth into it, my voice, my Koreanness, my womanness, everything began to shift. I realized that as a woman, our power has never been in fitting in, but is in our resilience to speak our truth. So I just want to say to every woman who may feel unseen, your voice is something to honor. Your story is not something to dilute. It\u2019s something to amplify. And your identity is not a barrier; it\u2019s your power. Because when we create without apology, take up space, and lift each other up, we don\u2019t just make music. We can change what it sounds like.\u201d<\/p>\n

The upcoming sequel for KPop Demon Hunters remains a mystery<\/a>, though the creative team for the original has hinted at where they want the second entry to go. Director and screenwriter Maggie Chang hinted at the world expanding in part 2, and considering we\u2019ve only seen a brief window into the demon-filled universe, the sky might be the limit for the franchise<\/a>. <\/p>\n

What do you think of KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 talk about the entertainment industry? Leave a comment below and\u00a0join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Via Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KPop Demon Hunters is set to return with a sequel following the smash success of the animated musical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,1096,157,1094,111,139,69,63636],"class_list":["post-407184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-kpop-demon-hunters","tag-music","tag-netflix","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-regular-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}