EJAE Says DiCaprio Made Her Crack at BAFTAs
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- EJAE told the Times she "cracked a little bit on the high notes" during the BAFTAs performance after locking eyes with Leonardo DiCaprio in the front row who "was not smiling," saying the encounter "put me off"
- Leonardo DiCaprio attended the London ceremony as a nominee for "One Battle After Another" and lost to Robert Aramayo of "I Swear"
- EJAE performed "Golden" with Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami — the three vocal voices of Huntr/x from Netflix's "KPop Demon Hunters" — in the trio's first performance of the song outside the United States
- "Golden" won the Oscar for best original song despite the BAFTAs not having that category, making EJAE a trophy winner as one of its writers, and became both the first K-pop song to win a Grammy and the first to win an Oscar
- Beyoncé told EJAE at an afterparty that "my girls sing it" when asked about the track; Jay-Z introduced himself as "Shawn," per EJAE
- "KPop Demon Hunters" has a sequel in development, meaning EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami "will have to work hard to one-up themselves"
Why it matters: The anecdote reframes a small BAFTA-stage flub into a humanizing moment for one of Netflix's biggest 2025 breakouts: "Golden" still went on to claim both the Grammy and Oscar — both firsts for a K-pop track — and the franchise now has a sequel in the works, putting pressure on EJAE and her Huntr/x co-vocalists to top themselves.
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