EJAE Reacts to Her 'KPop Demon Hunters' Song "Golden" Hitting No. 1 on Hot 100 & More | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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EJAE, who trained to be a K-pop idol before transitioning to songwriting, is finally getting her much-deserved moment in the spotlight thanks to the success of the Netflix animated film 'KPop Demon Hunters' and its soundtrack. The singer-songwriter chats with The Hollywood Reporter about her song "Golden" hitting No. 1 on Hot 100, the craziest part of this whole journey and more.

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00:00Hi, Hollywood Reporter. I'm EJ.

00:06Hitting number one is absolutely crazy. I cried all day, literally. And the first thing I thought

00:15about was me as a kid. And, you know, I'm just so happy I made little 11-year-old EJ's dream come true.

00:30That's the part that is so validating, I think. That's the part where I'm like, wow.

00:40To have something, because writing songs is very personal. It can feel like you're showing

00:45people your diary or even melodically or anything. So it feels really, really gratifying to have people

00:51really connect with something I wrote and, you know, co-wrote. And yeah, that song, the melody

00:58came out so fast. So it's so cool. Like seeing people sing it and hearing my voice in the radio is so odd.

01:13Everything's been crazy. It's literally just happening so fast. I think the craziest is truly

01:22when I'm on TikTok and I see a person I don't know in their house and them singing Golden.

01:28And the kid's just loving it. That's just crazy. It's so interesting.

01:40Thing is, like, so I was on the project for a long time. And I remember when the directors told us

01:46that they found Mira or Zoey and Rumi, like they were so excited. So I was really curious. I did know

01:53generally kind of talking to the directors, like what their voices would be like. So it was really cool

02:01to see it in the movie and exactly be what I imagined. So that was very exciting. And they did

02:07an incredible job. Seriously, like, so fun.

02:17That I'm honestly just so humbled and grateful and honored to have people actually love

02:26the song that I worked hard on. Lots of sleepless nights and all-nighters. And I'm just really, really grateful.

02:37So I think definitely the fact that I'm Korean American, being bilingual was truly helpful because

02:48I did write all the Korean lyrics in the movie, except for Sookoff. And so that was really helpful in,

02:56you know, when I'm writing the mantra and, you know, knowing the old school Korean kind of speak

03:01and, you know, being able to weave in Korean and English lyrics seamlessly. And also growing up,

03:08I grew up half in the States, half in Korea. So having that knowledge is really was super key

03:15in finding a sound that can work both in both ways and also lyrically. And I think that was important.

03:24And also me also training as a K-pop idol for over a decade was very, very helpful. And just being

03:32a K-pop writer myself, I definitely incorporated that knowledge in. And also, interestingly, like,

03:38K-pop is really, really maximalist. So it translated like very naturally into cinematic

03:43songs, sound. So yeah, I think those are the two very helpful things.

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