{"id":50577,"date":"2025-10-31T17:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/portugal-the-man-covers-kpop-demon-hunters-golden-listen\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:20:38","slug":"portugal-the-man-covers-kpop-demon-hunters-golden-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/portugal-the-man-covers-kpop-demon-hunters-golden-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal. The Man Covers Kpop Demon Hunters’ ‘Golden’: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Lead vocalist John Gourley stans Twice after falling “deep into K-pop” thanks to his daughter<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\tPortugal. The Man<\/a> are sealing the honmoon with some fiddles. On Friday, the band released a reimagined version of\u00a0Kpop Demon Hunter<\/em>\u2018s \u201cGolden<\/a>,\u201d which features him singing the chart-topper as a folky, stripped-back ballad, on\u00a0Amazon Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve recently fallen deep into K-pop \u2014 big fan of TWICE and others,\u201d lead singer John Gourley said of the rendition in a press release. \u201cBut once \u2018Golden\u2019 found its way into my dreams, it was inescapable. I\u2019ve sung this song a thousand times with our daughter and always loved the idea of breaking it down with an acoustic guitar and strings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Portugal. The Man version spins the high-note, pop-produced version of the film and turns it on its head as a softer, acoustic ballad that almost gives it a new meaning. \u201cIt\u2019s just such a beautiful arrangement,\u201d Gourley said, adding in an Instagram post: <\/a>\u201cWe stitched together a monster of a cover.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe new rendition of \u201cGolden\u201d comes a week before the band is set to release their album Shish<\/em>, featuring 10 tracks written about \u201cthe lessons he learned being raised in Alaska, but also some of the lessons he\u2019s already learned raising his daughter,\u201d who lives with a genetic disorder. The band is set to go on a tour immediately after the album\u2019s release, starting in Portland, before stopping in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Toronto, and more cities through mid-December.<\/p>\n

\n\tA recent Rolling Stone<\/em> story<\/a> looked into the impact of Kpop Demon Hunters<\/a><\/em> and how it became such a massive success, thanks to both the Netflix film and its accompanying earworm soundtrack, which included \u201cGolden.\u201d According to Luminate, the soundtrack had become \u201csingle-handedly responsible for around 43 percent of U.S. K-pop streaming volume\u201d by early August 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n