Scene Stealer

EJAE Has Had A Golden Year

KPop Demon Hunters was the biggest movie of the year. And a lot of its success can be attributed to Inverse’s 2025 Scene Stealer, EJAE. The singer-songwriter behind Huntr/x’s hit songs like the chart-topping “Golden” tells us how it was all done, done, done.

By Hoai-Tran Bui
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