{"id":7981,"date":"2026-01-12T02:33:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ejae-golden-globes-win-kpop-demon-hunters-1236152982\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:33:34","slug":"ejae-golden-globes-win-kpop-demon-hunters-1236152982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ejae-golden-globes-win-kpop-demon-hunters-1236152982\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Never Too Late to Shine\u2019: EJAE Gives Inspiring Golden Globes Speech After K-Pop Smash Wins Best Original\u00a0Song"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tKPop Demon Hunters<\/em> isn\u2019t done changing culture just yet.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Sunday (Jan. 11) night at the 2026 Golden Globes, the film\u2019s signature smash \u201cGolden\u201d became the first K-pop song to win the Golden Globes for best original song, motion picture. Performed by HUNTR\/X (EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI) with music by Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Park Hong Jun and lyrics by Kim Eun-Jae (EJAE) and Mark Sonnenblick, \u201cGolden\u201d won the Golden Globe for its aforementioned songwriters.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn her teary acceptance speech, EJAE (Kim Eun-Jae) opened up about rejection, \u201credirection\u201d and finding her purpose. EJAE said she worked \u201ctirelessly for 10 years\u201d as a young girl to become a K-pop idol, but was \u201crejected and disappointed\u201d when she was eventually told her \u201cvoice wasn\u2019t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo I leaned on song and music to get through it and now I\u2019m here as a singer-songwriter,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true to be part of a song that\u2019s helping other girls, other boys and everyone of all ages to get through their hardships and accept themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEJAE added, \u201cThis award goes to people who had doors closed on them. I can confidently say rejection is redirection. It\u2019s never too late to shine like you were born to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGolden\u201d became one of the biggest surprise hits of 2025, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks. Toward the end of 2025, the singers of HUNTR\/X talked to Billboard<\/em> about their pinch-me moments<\/a> of their breakout year.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Golden Globes are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Eldridge Industries and Billboard parent company Penske Media.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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KPop Demon Hunters isn\u2019t done changing culture just yet. On Sunday (Jan. 11) night at the 2026 Golden Globes, the film\u2019s signature smash \u201cGolden\u201d became the first K-pop song to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,2136,552,5046,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-film-and-tv","category-genre-kpop","category-golden-globes","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}