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Song of the Day #6,431: ‘What it Sounds Like’ – HUNTR/X

Concluding a look at my favorite movie music scenes of 2025…

Before I get to my final musical selection, I want to shout out a few honorable mentions.

One is the Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra performing during a South Bronx Puerto Rican Day celebration in Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest. The vibrant parade is cross-cut with the delivery of ransom money on an overhead subway train in one of that film’s best scenes (here’s a small taste).

Another is the anachronistic use of 80s music in the 50s-set Marty Supreme. I particularly liked a montage set to The Korgis’ ‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime.’

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Song of the Day #6,281: ‘Golden’ – – HUNTR/X (EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI)

Continuing my look at this year’s Songs of the Summer, I’ll skip over numbers five and six (Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s ‘luther’ and Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ ‘Die With a Smile,’ respectively) because they’ve shown up on the blog already.

At #7 on the Billboard summer chart is ‘Golden’ by the fictional K-pop band HUNTR/X, a song featured in the hit movie KPop Demon Hunters. The animated Netflix film follows the K-pop girl group, who are secretly (you guessed it) demon hunters, as they face off against a boy band who are secretly (again, you guessed it) demons.

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