{"id":312273,"date":"2026-02-23T01:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312273\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:57:08","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-performance-gets-crowd-singing-at-baftas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312273\/","title":{"rendered":"‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Performance Gets Crowd Singing at BAFTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, the singers behind Huntr\/x from \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/a>,\u201d got the BAFTA Film Awards<\/a> crowd grooving with a performance of their megahit \u201cGolden.\u201d It was the first performance of the hit track outside the U.S., proving the film\u2019s global domination \u2014 despite being ineligible for a BAFTA Award.<\/p>\n

\n\tChase Infiniti, who has made it clear she\u2019s a big fan of Huntr\/x, was seen singing along from the crowd as EJAE, Nuna and Ami \u2014 dressed for the occasion in shades of red, brown and gold \u2014 performed the track alongside a slew of dancers. The performance started out with EJAE crooning solo on stage before Nuna and Ami appeared from different locations around the venue, working the audience as they made their way to the BAFTA stage.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough the trio were invited to perform, BAFTA ruled that \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d did not meet the eligibility criteria for the Film Awards \u2014 despite a formal appeal by Netflix \u2014 specifically because it did not have a qualifying theatrical release. Netflix tried to argue that the film\u2019s later theatrical run, two months after it debuted on the streamer, should count under BAFTAs<\/a> \u201cexceptional circumstances\u201d clause, which will sometimes make allowances for distribution models such as event cinema releases. However, BAFTA rejected this argument.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, the organizers were clearly happy to sprinkle a little Huntr\/x stardust into the ceremony \u2014 much to the attendees\u2019 delight.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite not being eligible for a BAFTA, the film is on track to storm the Academy Awards where it is nominated for original song and animated feature film. On Saturday it dominated the Annie Awards, taking home 10 gongs including for best feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, the singers behind Huntr\/x from \u201cKPop Demon Hunters,\u201d got the BAFTA Film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[123269,120229,93,61,60,3622,278],"class_list":["post-312273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bafta-film-awards","tag-baftas","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kpop-demon-hunters","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}