{"id":407543,"date":"2026-01-12T04:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407543\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:06:08","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-golden-wins-best-original-song-at-2026-golden-globes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407543\/","title":{"rendered":"Kpop Demon Hunters\u2019 \u201cGolden\u201d Wins Best Original Song at 2026 Golden Globes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The songwriters and lyricists behind Kpop Demon Hunters\u2019 global smash hit \u201cGolden\u201d\u2014Ejae, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun, and Mark Sonnenblick\u2014have won Best Original Song at <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/golden-globes-2026-nick-cave-jonny-greenwood-max-richter-nominated\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 2026 Golden Globe Awards<\/a>. They beat out <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/5996-miley-cyrus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miley Cyrus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/5304-mark-ronson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Ronson<\/a>, Andrew Wyatt, and Simon Franglen (Avatar: Fire and Ash\u2019s \u201cDream as One\u201d); <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/14945-raphael-saadiq\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raphael Saadiq<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/ludwig-goransson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ludwig G\u00f6ransson<\/a> (Sinners\u2019 \u201cI Lied to You\u201d); Stephen Schwartz (Wicked: For Good\u2019s \u201cNo Place Like Home\u201d and \u201cThe Girl in the Bubble\u201d); and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/710-nick-cave\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Cave<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/27735-bryce-dessner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Dessner<\/a> (Train Dreams\u2019 \u201cTrain Dreams\u201d). This is their first-ever Golden Globes nomination and win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGolden\u201d singer Ejae and her cowriters accepted the award from presenters Charli XCX and Joe Keery. \u201cThank you so much to Golden Globes for this incredible honor. I\u2019m just so honored to be alongside the other nominees,\u201d Ejae said while fighting back tears and hyperventilating. \u201cWhen I was a little girl, I worked tirelessly for ten years to fill one dream: to become a K-pop idol. I was rejected and disappointed that my voice wasn\u2019t good enough. So I wrote songs and music to get through it. So now I\u2019m here as a singer and a songwriter and it\u2019s a dream come true to be part of a song that is helping other girls, other boys, and everyone from all ages to get through their hardships and accept themselves. So thank you, Golden Globes, for accepting my voice and our voice.\u201d She took to the mic again at the very end to add one final note: \u201cI can confidently say rejection is redirection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/ludwig-goransson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ludwig G\u00f6ransson<\/a> won Best Original Score for Sinners. He took the trophy home over fellow nominees Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein), Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another), Kangding Ray (Sir\u0101t), Max Richter (Hamnet), and Hans Zimmer (F1). Several other musicians appeared onstage throughout tonight\u2019s Golden Globes as official awards presenters, too, including Miley Cyrus, Blackpink\u2019s Lisa, and Snoop Dogg.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Golden Globe Award for <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/trent-reznor-and-atticus-ross-win-best-original-score-at-golden-globes-2025-for-challengers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Best Original Score<\/a> went to Nine Inch Nails musicians Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for their work on <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/trent-reznor-atticus-ross-challengers-original-score\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Challengers<\/a>. That same year, Camille and Cl\u00e9ment Ducol won <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/camille-and-clement-ducols-el-mal-wins-best-original-song-at-2024-golden-globes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Best Original Song<\/a> for \u201cEl Mal\u201d in Emilia P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE BaseLink-eTpkqh ContentCardEmbedImageLink-eELFBx deqABF jfBpVC fyUolD XqBtt content-card-embed__image\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedImage\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/the-50-best-movie-soundtracks-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stills from Purple Rain, Marie Antoinette, and more\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P4K_SoundtracksHeader.jpg\"\/><\/a><a class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE BaseLink-eTpkqh ContentCardEmbedHedLink-kqBDz deqABF kxtjOE gJzqjx hEvJqU content-card-embed__hed-link link\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/the-50-best-movie-soundtracks-of-all-time\/\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedHedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The songwriters and lyricists behind Kpop Demon Hunters\u2019 global smash hit \u201cGolden\u201d\u2014Ejae, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,25671,134,1689,136,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-407543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-award","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-film","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}