Girls' Generation Wows US Talk Show Audiences
By wchung | 17 May, 2025

The Girls: A top Kpop group makes a big media splash for the first US release of their hit album.

Kpop group Girls’ Generation made a big splash this week in the US by appearing on two top talk shows to promote The Boys, the first album they have released in the US.

On Tuesday night the group performed their hit single “The Boys” on The Late Show with David Letterman. It was the Korean girl group’s first performance on a US TV show. They followed that up the next morning by performing it again on ABC’s Live! with Kelly, followed by an interview for NBC’s evening entertainment news show Extra.

Letterman introduced the nine-member group as a “very popular group from South Korea who have just released their first album in America.” The Boys was released in the US on January 17.

A crowd of eager fans greeted the girls in front of the CBS studio as they arrived for the Letterman Show. They stopped to sign autographs before dazzling the studio audience in their short black-lace outfits. Letterman thanked the group in Korean.

On ABC’s Live! with Kelly the group was greeted with the studio audience chanting their Korean nickname “SoShi”.

“You are such a gorgeous group of women,” said Kelly Ripa. “I’ve never seen such audience participation in all my life.”

After they performed their song, the girls were asked a series of questions which were fielded by Tiffany and Jessica, the two members who were born in San Francisco and speak fluent English. The group taught some dance moves to the song to hosts Ripa and Howie Mandel, and dubbed the moves “The Ripa”.

“It was such an honor to appear on ‘Late Show with David Letterman,” the group members told Yonhap News Agency during an interview between their TV appearances. “We nearly cried when we heard that they wanted us on the show. It was all so surreal and hard to believe it was happening for real until we stepped into the studio.”

The group hopes to make a big enough splash in the US to support a US concert tour followed by a global tour.

So far their US debut appears to be going well. It was dubbed “a huge success” by Interscope Records, the label behind the group’s US album release.