Lead vocalist John Gourley stans Twice after falling \u201cdeep into K-pop\u201d thanks to his daughter<\/p>\n
\n\tPortugal. The Man<\/a> are sealing the honmoon with some fiddles. On Friday, the band released a reimagined version of\u00a0Kpop Demon Hunter\u2018s \u201cGolden<\/a>,\u201d which features him singing the chart-topper as a folky, stripped-back ballad, on\u00a0Amazon Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019ve recently fallen deep into K-pop \u2014 big fan of TWICE and others,\u201d lead singer John Gourley said of the rendition in a press release. \u201cBut once \u2018Golden\u2019 found its way into my dreams, it was inescapable. I\u2019ve sung this song a thousand times with our daughter and always loved the idea of breaking it down with an acoustic guitar and strings.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe Portugal. The Man version spins the high-note, pop-produced version of the film and turns it on its head as a softer, acoustic ballad that almost gives it a new meaning. \u201cIt\u2019s just such a beautiful arrangement,\u201d Gourley said, adding in an Instagram post: <\/a>\u201cWe stitched together a monster of a cover.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tThe new rendition of \u201cGolden\u201d comes a week before the band is set to release their album Shish, featuring 10 tracks written about \u201cthe lessons he learned being raised in Alaska, but also some of the lessons he\u2019s already learned raising his daughter,\u201d who lives with a genetic disorder. The band is set to go on a tour immediately after the album\u2019s release, starting in Portland, before stopping in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Toronto, and more cities through mid-December.<\/p>\n \n\tA recent Rolling Stone story<\/a> looked into the impact of Kpop Demon Hunters<\/a> and how it became such a massive success, thanks to both the Netflix film and its accompanying earworm soundtrack, which included \u201cGolden.\u201d According to Luminate, the soundtrack had become \u201csingle-handedly responsible for around 43 percent of U.S. K-pop streaming volume\u201d by early August 2025.<\/p>\n \t