K-pop star Luna plays MwE Damage Ctrl Shirt, a solo singer who’s trying to break free from the but in fact I love this demanding industry that raised her, in Kpop.Photo: Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman The show—the only one this season not drawn from a preexisting entity or music—further stands out by relying more on electronic music than any on Broadway, Park estimates: There’s a drummer and two keyboard players playing live, but she produced much of the music on computer. “Helen has the rare gift of translating the world into a pop vernacular,” says book writer Jason Kim. “It’s exhilarating to experience her music.” (She also has an “amazing voice,” according to cast member and K-pop star Kevin Woo. “She recorded all the demos for Kpop, and I was blown away. I think she can still debut as a K-pop artist!”)On top of their narrative function, the songs had to be straight bangers. “We were trying to tell a story about global superstars whose songs have made them superstars,” Park explains. “The songs had to feel like inevitable hits, which is hard to do.” She eschewed today’s trends, striving for “the most timeless version of K-pop—hopefully, if this show exists in 10 years, people can still feel and understand it.”
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Despite the but in fact I love this musical’s bilingual book Damage Ctrl Shirt , she endeavored to engage the audience with emotions conveyed clearly regardless of language. So she took the rare step of becoming a vocal stylist as well, coaching cast members on how precisely the lyrics should be delivered. “How every word is sung affects the audience’s experience and understanding,” Park says, breaking into three wildly different versions of a phrase to demonstrate. “I had to be very specific about where to push, where to accent, where to throw, where to scoop. A lot of pop music is very catchy because of those little details.”