{"id":658846,"date":"2026-03-16T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/658846\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:50:09","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-stars-sing-golden-at-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/658846\/","title":{"rendered":"KPop Demon Hunters Stars Sing ‘Golden’ at Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami \u2014\u00a0the singing voices behind Huntr\/x in Netflix\u2019s \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d<\/a> \u2014 joined forces on the Oscars<\/a> stage for a rendition of their smash hit \u201cGolden.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of the telecast, the segment was teased as a fusion of traditional Korean instrumentalists and dance, drawing on the folklore and cultural roots at the heart of the animated blockbuster. And they delivered with a celebration of \u201cGolden\u201d and \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/a>.\u201d Watch the performance here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur music ignites the soul and brings people together,\u201d said the narrator before the curtain lifted on Huntr\/x standing on a set of stairs at the back of the stage. They descended the stairs as the camera cut behind them, showing the audience waving illuminated orbs across the venue. Though the song was apparently shortened, EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami rounded out their exuberant rendition of \u201cGolden\u201d by striking a pose in front of the backup dancers clutching flags behind them.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety predicted that \u201cGolden\u201d was poised to make Oscar history as the first K-pop song to win the Oscar for best original song, which it did shortly after the performance. Earlier this year, \u201cGolden\u201d made separate history at the Grammys when it picked up the award for best song written for visual media, making it the first K-pop song to win a Grammy.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe singers behind Huntr\/x have been on a promotional whirlwind over the past few months. They played across several parties during Grammy week, including the famed Clive Davis event, and just last month appeared together to perform \u201cGolden\u201d at the BAFTA Film Awards and BRIT Awards.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGolden\u201d was written by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, IDO, 24 and Teddy Park, and became a massive hit since debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 2025. It scored five non-consecutive weeks atop that chart, becoming the longest-leading hit on the tally by an animated act.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe success of the song is \u201cvindicating\u201d and \u201clong overdue,\u201d Rei Ami told Variety in a cover story last month. \u201cWe worked our asses off. We\u2019ve had the door shut in our faces. We were told we were too little, too much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami \u2014\u00a0the singing voices behind Huntr\/x in Netflix\u2019s \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d \u2014 joined…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":658847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,30075,975,15801,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-658846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-oscars","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116236820433549296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}