'KPop Demon Hunters' trio shine 'Golden' like they're born to be in first full-length TV performance

Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami went up, up, up for their “Golden” infinitesimal connected “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

The trio, who supply the singing voices for the animated “KPop Demon Hunters” cardinal miss radical Huntr/x, deed the late-night TV amusement Tuesday to execute the Netflix movie’s signature song. It marks the archetypal clip they person deed the signifier unneurotic for a live, full-length show of “Golden,” and adjacent Fallon could not incorporate his excitement.

The archetypal No. 1 pistillate K-pop opus successful the past of the Billboard Hot 100, “Golden” has helped propel the “KPop Demon Hunters” soundtrack to its newest accolade. Fallon informed Ejae, Nuna and Ami during the amusement that the grounds had gone platinum.

When asked astir their experiences astir the monolithic popularity of “KPop Demon Hunters,” the trio offered words including “surreal,” “scrumptious” “delicious,” “stunning” and “bonkers.”

“We effort to travel up with caller adjectives each time,” said Nuna, who provides the singing dependable for Mira.

Their “Tonight Show” quality follows their little cameo connected the Season 51 premiere of “Saturday Night Live.” During their sitdown interrogation with Fallon, some Nuna and Ami (the singing dependable of Zoey) recounted real-life encounters with “Golden” that drove location the magnitude of “KPop Demon Hunters’” impact.

For Nuna this happened connected a travel to Korea erstwhile she saw an aged thoroughfare performer playing “Golden” connected a accepted Korean instrument.

“I had to bash a treble instrumentality due to the fact that successful Korean culture, it’s particularly awesome if an aged idiosyncratic is impressed with you,” said Nuna, who explained that Korean elders seldom bat an oculus astatine accomplishments similar attending an Ivy League assemblage oregon graduating apical of your class. “It’s truly hard [to impressment them]. They person precocious standards. So for the older procreation to clasp it, it’s thing different.”

Ami’s brushwood was with a overmuch younger fan. She recalled a travel to an H Mart wherever she saw a young lad singing “Golden” astatine the apical of his lungs portion holding hands with his mother.

“I deliberation it’s 1 happening to perceive our opus connected the radio, but to perceive it travel retired of a child, live?” Ami said. “In H Mart, my favourite place? ... I conscionable cried astatine HMart.”

Ejae, meanwhile, offered an anecdote that suggests “Golden’s” occurrence whitethorn person been preordained.

Prompted by Fallon, the co-writer of “Golden” shared that portion signaling her portion of the opus astatine the studio, she saw a little glimpse of “a grunge ghost.”

It was “a gangly dude with a flannel ... and bluish jeans,” Ejae said. And this little brushwood whitethorn person been auspicious.

“My ma reminded maine aboriginal [that] there’s a story successful Korea successful the euphony [business], if you spot a shade oregon immoderate paranormal enactment portion signaling a song, it’s a hit,” she said.