K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Takedown: What if BLACKPINK Killed Demons?

HUNTR/X, EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami make up the talent behind K-Pop Demon Hunters track Takedown. This Netflix animated manga is taking over the world, while the soundtrack is at number one. The key is that this sugar seizure of a movie is backed by solid pop meth. Netflix did not go cheap and used talented K-Pop acts like Twice and others to create genuine hits.

K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Takedown is almost a shot by shot remake of BLACKPINK’s biggest hit Pink Venom. The electro beat structure of high energy verses with breakdowns for the hook is the identical structure. Think Nirvana and the Pixies…they were not identical, but Nirvana emulated the same song structure. K-Pop Demon Hunters are similar in how they emulate the same song strucutre and breakdowns as BLACKPINK. Let me be clear, this is not a bad thing. It’s probably good to emulate a K-Pop band with over 800,000,000 listens on some of their bigger tracks. It also has a K-Pop familiarity that immediately gets its hooks into you.

Vocally, it hits all the same notes as women led K-Pop bands like Twice or BLACKPINK. There are Korean verses, hip hop breakdowns and sugary harmonising. Moreover, this track has the same breakneck speed as other K-Pop, which gives you pop in such a distilled manner that it will burn a hole in your head. This is a K-Pop diamond with the density of a white dwarf star. Any more distilled and it verges on imploding on itself and creating a K-Pop black hole…which is what he have with BLACKPINK’s new single Jump…but I’ll save that for another review. This is pure K-Pop, which has a pace and speed that takes pop to a whole different dimension.

Good K-Pop is like eating pink jellybeans…the first one goes down so sweet and sugary that you think it might be a bit too much, but 10 minutes later you’ve eaten 75 of them and are on the verge of sugar induced psychosis. Takedown is like that. You listen to it and you think “Ok. It’s a cool K-Pop song about taking down demons…not much there.” Then you look up and you realise that you have listened to it on repeat for 80 minutes. Takedown is everything great about K-Pop. It’s fun, high energy and supernaturally catchy…and you may even take out a few demons as well….

Listen to Takedown