KPop Demon Hunters, Netflix’s smash deed animated philharmonic film, conscionable had a large nighttime connected television. The singers down the movie’s cardinal KPop group, HUNTR/X, made their precocious nighttime speech amusement debut connected The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon connected October 7 — and needless to say, they brought down the location with a peculiar show of “Golden.”
The singing voices down Rumi, Mira, and Zoey — EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami, respectively — took to the signifier to execute the HUNTR/X azygous that changed everything for the radical successful the narrative. The women performed the way successful all-black outfits successful beforehand of a surface playing moments from the unveiling and show of the opus wrong the film.
No surprises here, but the show was so good, it astir decidedly sealed the Honmoon.
— The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) October 8, 2025But, if you tin judge it, that wasn’t adjacent the champion portion of the nighttime for the trio. In fact, during their sit-down interrogation with Fallon, the big revealed to them that the azygous they would execute connected the amusement had officially gone platinum — a large accomplishment. Fallon presented the set with a platinum grounds plaque to commemorate the moment, and tears were shed.
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— The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) October 8, 2025Fallon besides made it a constituent to item each of the records the film, the band, and “Golden” specifically person breached truthful acold — and determination are a ton of insane ones. EJAE besides opened up astir penning the song, which she did connected her mode to the dentist aft receiving the instrumental way from producers. The melody came to her astir instantly, and past aboriginal she had a Zoom league to hash retired the lyrics specifically.
EJAE besides told a communicative astir seeing a shade successful the workplace portion signaling “Golden.” She claims the ghost, who donned a flannel garment and bluish jeans erstwhile she saw him for a divided second, got her measurement knob backmost successful moving bid erstwhile it stopped functioning during the session. When she brought it up to workplace staff, they were unphased and knew precisely what she was talking about. Spooky.
But possibly the astir absorbing portion of the communicative was erstwhile EJAE mentioned that her parent reminded her of a Korean superstition aft the encounter: if you spot immoderate paranormal enactment portion signaling a song, it’s going to beryllium a hit.
EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami are surely connected a rotation lately with an unthinkable precocious rollout strategy that decidedly intends to support the immensely fashionable movie successful the forefront of minds successful the months since it was released. Just a fewer days anterior to their Fallon appearance, they sang unneurotic connected Saturday Night Live arsenic a astonishment during a sketch.
That said, it’s no astonishment to spot Netflix instrumentality this way with the singing voices of specified a deed philharmonic film. After all, “Golden” held the apical spot connected the Billboard Top 100 for a whopping 8 weeks erstwhile the movie was released. Folks emotion this happening — and they surely aren’t going to halt aft specified a slayer (not to notation wholly endearing) precocious nighttime appearance.
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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.