{"id":332650,"date":"2026-03-16T18:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/332650\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:13:11","slug":"how-ejae-wouldve-ended-best-original-song-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/332650\/","title":{"rendered":"How EJAE Would\u2019ve Ended Best Original Song Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

EJAE\u00a0is\u00a0looking back on what could have been a golden moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though the singer-songwriter and her collaborators made history at the 2026 Oscars<\/a> with their Best Original Song win for\u00a0Kpop Demon Hunters\u2019 \u201cGolden,\u201d their speech was abruptly cut off<\/a>. As for what she would have said to close out the historic moment, she admitted she had a few special people they hoped to acknowledge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t get to because they just cut us off but I wanted to thank\u00a0Rei Ami\u00a0and\u00a0Audrey Nuna,\u201d EJAE told reporters of her\u00a0Kpop Demon Hunters<\/a>\u00a0bandmates\u00a0after the win at the March 15 event. \u201cThey killed it with their singing and they\u2019re just incredible people and I love them so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the track\u2019s historic win as the first-ever Kpop song to win in the category, EJAE, 34, took the stage alongside five of her collaborators. (Mark Sonnenblick,\u00a0Joong Gyu Kwak,\u00a0Yu Han Lee,\u00a0Hee Dong Nam,\u00a0Jeong Hoon Seo\u00a0and\u00a0Teddy Park all shared in the honor).<\/p>\n

EJAE began the speech<\/a> by thanking those who made it possible for her to achieve the award, before one of her cowriters approached the microphone with a piece of paper in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EJAE\u00a0is\u00a0looking back on what could have been a golden moment.\u00a0 Though the singer-songwriter and her collaborators made history…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-332650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}