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Audrey Nuna caught up with Kyle Meredith to talk about her whirlwind year — one that saw her debut record Trench making waves and her role in KPop Demon Hunters turning into a global phenomenon. The singer, rapper, and songwriter digs into how her singing role as Mira in the animated project came about, what it means to balance her own creative identity with a new pop persona, and how she’s approaching her next album with an eye toward imperfection and humanity. Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts.
Nuna tells Meredith that her entry into KPop Demon Hunters was almost accidental. “It was serendipitous,” she says. “Apparently there were people who recommended me for this project — people I’d met when I was 15 or 20. I just said, ‘Sure, sounds fun.’” What came next was surreal: “The song [“Golden”] went number one on the Global 200 the last day of my Trench international tour. Everything has felt really surprising but also weirdly predestined.”
She goes on to say how recording songs as Mira instead of Audrey Nuna led to her embracing a “beautiful new type of relationship to have with songs where you truly are the recording artist.” “It’s kind of really reinvigorating my relationship with recording as well,” she continues. “Just this idea that, I think sometimes when you’re involved in so many different things and your hands are in so many different parts of the process, you kind of can lose sight of the fact that recording is an art in itself. And I think also in the age of hype-nonchalance and also a lot of AutoTune and a lot of aesthetic-based music, you forget that at the end of the day, your job is to bring humanness to songs.”
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It’s a mindset that’s informing her next phase. “I think we’re all craving something human,” Nuna explains. “I want to hear my actual voice more. I want to be off-tempo, no click track — things that feel right but wrong.” She even laughs that she’s living proof of her own “simulation theory” jokes: “I never thought I’d be in a girl group. I’m like the least girl-groupy person ever, and somehow I’m in this all-time charting group. Simulation confirmed.”
Listen to Audrey Nuna talk about KPop Demon Hunters, Trench, and more in the new episode above or by watching the video below. Netflix recently announced that KPop Demon Hunters 2 is targeting a 2029 release.
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