{"id":153176,"date":"2025-11-30T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=153176"},"modified":"2025-11-30T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:55:09","slug":"babymonster-fans-clap-at-the-2025-mama-awards-criticism-following-the-golden-vocal-performance-with-videos-of-kpop-demon-hunters-ejae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/babymonster-fans-clap-at-the-2025-mama-awards-criticism-following-the-golden-vocal-performance-with-videos-of-kpop-demon-hunters-ejae\/","title":{"rendered":"BABYMONSTER fans clap at the 2025 MAMA Awards criticism following the \u201cGolden\u201d vocal performance with videos of KPop Demon Hunters&#8217; EJAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <strong>BABYMONSTER<\/strong> faced heavy criticism for their November 29, 2025, performance of \u201c<em>Golden<\/em>\u201d at the 2025 MAMA Awards, fans came armed with videos and receipts. The internet suddenly resurfaced interviews from EJAE, the original singer and composer of \u201cGolden\u201d for the movie<strong> KPop Demon Hunters<\/strong>. EJAE revealed that the song was never designed for a human singer in the first place. It was created for an animated character and intentionally pushed into unrealistically high territory. <iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1TYYOw-815A?si=Yp854lJ-yuIWsKLV\" title=\"Golden #2025MAMA - PHARITA, AHYEON, RORA from BABYMONSTER | KPop Demon Hunters | Netflix\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1TYYOw-815A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BABYMONSTER fans shared two <strong>EJAE<\/strong> interviews: In the first one, the singer and songwriter confessed that if she had known she would end up singing it herself, she wouldn\u2019t have made it that difficult. She explained that the extreme high notes were crafted to fit Rumi\u2019s storyline, not a live stage in the real world. Another clip went viral where EJAE broke down the vocal concept. She said they purposely strained the character\u2019s voice to make it sound like someone singing with a tone that wasn\u2019t their natural one, as it reflected the struggle Rumi was going through in the story.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ahyconic_411\/status\/1994958518794031304?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So EJAE, the original singer &amp; composer of GOLDEN said that the song is not for a singer, its for an animation bcs the highnotes are unrealistically HIGH. She said the song is so difficult to perform &amp; if she knew she was going to sing it, she wouldn\u2019t have made it this difficult <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OtMvsPZ20Q\">pic.twitter.com\/OtMvsPZ20Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; rosefor_u\ud83e\udd8b (@ahyconic_411) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ahyconic_411\/status\/1994958518794031304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pinksbabymon\/status\/1995035661485875230?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/pinksbabymon\/status\/1995035661485875230?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Armed with this context, fans <strong>MONSTIEZ<\/strong> used EJAE\u2019s statements to defend Ahyeon and the other BABYMONSTER members. They pointed out that critics were judging the girls using standards the original composer and singers herself said were impossible. They argued that attempting a song crafted to be \u201cnon-human\u201d was already brave enough. The conversation changed, with fans calling out the unfair scrutiny placed on young performers replicating a track that was specifically made for a movie moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After BABYMONSTER faced heavy criticism for their November 29, 2025, performance of \u201cGolden\u201d at the 2025 MAMA Awards, fans came armed with videos and receipts. The internet suddenly resurfaced interviews from EJAE, the original singer and composer of \u201cGolden\u201d for the movie KPop Demon Hunters. EJAE revealed that the song was never designed for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":153177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1631,2264,16],"tags":[2657,3460],"class_list":{"0":"post-153176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-awards","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-babymonster","11":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}