K-Pop Demon Hunters: All Huntrix songs ranked from worst to best

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K-Pop Demon Hunters has invaded countless homes in the past few weeks, whether in the form of repeated rewatches, soundtrack relistens, or both. We as a civilization are clearly not over this movie quite yet.

Throughout the movie, we hear many tracks performed by the fictional K-Pop group Huntrix, or HUNTR/X, performed by real K-Pop stars EJAE as Rumi, Audrey Nuna as Mira, and Rei Ami as Zoey, and they are all so incredibly catchy. Yes, "Soda Pop" level of catchy, and even more importantly, iconic. Huntrix's tracks have an emotional depth and meaning to them that goes over the heads of the younger audience, yet hits us adults right in the feels, making us think back on our own journeys and how we've changed through time and with experience.

We open the movie with "How It's Done", and continue with "Golden" and "Takedown", ending with "What It Sounds Like". Each of these tracks is wonderful and quite the earworm, but... how would they rank against each other? Which HUNTR/X track takes the gold for being the best one of them all?

Let's find out.

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Ranking all four Huntrix songs from best to bestest

Now, just because there can only be one Best Song™, it doesn't mean they're not all amazing. I, therefore, cannot state I am ranking them from worst to best - hence the slight modification above.

Anyway.

4) "Takedown"

"Takedown" is the angst-iest of all four tracks - it was specifically made as a diss track aimed at the demon K-Pop boy band Saja Boys, which is why the lyrics are a bit more... aggressive. I am beyond glad the Huntrix girls made the conscious decision not to perform it at the Idol Awards because they were right. This was not the song for the occasion, an occasion where celebration and joy should be spread, not the desire to send demon boys back to the hell they came from.

This doesn't mean it's not a good track at all, though. On the contrary - it's a fun song about kicking ass and taking names, Huntrix style.

3) "How It's Done"

The movie opens up with this track in one of the most fun, funny, and overall entertaining movie openings and introduces us to the Huntrix trio in the most authentic ways possible. We get to see how normal they are behind the scenes: they love food, their couch, and rest. And their fans - this whole fight began because their fans' lives were threatened. This song's beat is fantastic, and its video has one of the best moments of the entire movie when Rumi, Mira, and Zoey abandon their broken plane and ride demons down to the stadium in the sassiest of ways.

These girls are so badass. But, there can only be one Best Song™, and though "How It's Done" is great, it's not it.

2) "Golden"

I have a love-hate relationship with this song. It has all the elements that make a song the song, but there's one thing that automatically makes it less enjoyable for my sensitive ears - EJAE's high notes are unnecessarily too high, and I literally cannot stand them. At first, I'd skip this song entirely because I did not find any joy in my auditory sensory being triggered, now I just brace because I know it's coming, and listen to it at a much lower volume than I do the other tracks.

Also, on a deeper level, though this song is about hope and conquering challenges, it doesn't summon emotion as a true Best Song™ should. And, though this is quite the bop (just not for me), it'll sit pretty and on low volume at number 2 on my list.

1) "What It Sounds Like"

You want an anthem? Look no further.

"What It Sounds Like" doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should, always sitting in the shadow of "Golden", and I highly disagree with that opinion. This is such a superior track by far - the lyrics, the beats, their voices, the absolute emotion in all of their voices, but mainly EJAE's. This song hits so hard that it never fails to overwhelm me each time I listen to it. There's something cathartic about chanting "The scars are part of me, darkness and harmony" and just... letting it go.

We hear this incredible track at the end of the movie when Rumi is coming to terms with who she is and what that means for her, for Huntrix. Huntrix is finally fighting against the Saja Boys and Gwi-Ma, and it's an already very emotional scene that includes the sacrifice of Jinu and the downfall of Gwi-Ma, the Demon King. Having "What It Sounds Like" playing while the movie reaches its climax is quite the experience with every single rewatch, and I've watched this movie a lot by now.

You just can't beat this song.

Honorary Mention: "Free"

Though this isn't a Huntrix song, I'll include it here since Rumi sings in it. This song is so good, and both EJAE and Andrew Choi nail their parts in this track. It's sweet, soft, and it doesn't fail to hit hard with "We can't fix it if we never face it, let the past be the past till it's weightless."

K-Pop Demon Hunters absolutely nails it. It combines the fun of animation, an amazing story about self-discovery, trust, and found family, and a tracklist that has no right being this hot, making it the movie to watch this summer.

What's your favorite Huntrix song? Let us know in the comments.

K-Pop Demon Hunters is now streaming on Netflix.