RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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It's understandably hard to focus when an unsmiling Leonardo DiCaprio is staring at you. Kpop Demon Hunters singer EJAE reflected on experiencing exactly that while performing the group's mega-hit "Golden" during the BAFTA Film Awards in February.
"The BAFTAs haunt me," EJAE said in a recent interview with the Times . "I made mistakes. I cracked a little bit on the high notes. Leonardo DiCaprio was [in the audience] right in front of me and he was not smiling."
She explained that just before she sang the lyric "born to be" a high note in the song, she looked right at the actor. "That's what put me off," she said. "He made me so nervous. It was already so nerve-racking to be in front of all these celebrities, and then I look up and lock eyes with Leonardo DiCaprio? Come on."
Elsewhere in the interview, EJAE recalled crossing paths with one of the music industry's biggest power couples, Beyoncé and Jay-Z. "I was at their afterparty and Jay-Z came up to me and said, 'Hi, my name's Shawn,'" she said. "I was beyond starstruck. Beyoncé is my idol and she said, 'You have an incredible voice.'" She added, I asked her, 'Do you know 'Golden?' She was like, 'Yeah, my girls sing it.'"
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