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A Midsummer NMIXX's Dream by NMIXX

  “A Midsummer NMIXX’s Dream” is a single album by k-pop sextet NMIXX, including two songs: “Party O’Clock” and “Roller Coaster”. The music video for “Roller Coaster” was released prior to the single album on July 3, while “Party O’Clock” came out on the eleventh. Both songs have an overarching theme of youth and life, expressed in different ways. 
 “Roller Coaster” is about a metaphorical roller coaster of emotions. It’s another love song, but it’s also more than that; “Roller Coaster” is about the wild journey of youth and life in general. Lyrics from the song read, “Let's ride, hold on. Going down, going up with you.” The music video is stylized like a movie, with the theme of high school love. The video shows scenes of the group doing a cute choreography in school uniforms outside. Later in the video, we see the members helping each other in various ways and having fun together in a pool. Whether it’s romance or friendship, the song’s theme is taking on life together. This is all captured in a smooth house-pop beat, with a higher vocal tone and an impressive high note towards the end. The song isn’t particularly hyper, but it also couldn’t be called sentimental. The rhythm is relaxed and fun. 
 “Party O’Clock”, the main single, eagerly invites listeners to a party in a hidden forest. The song is also about freezing time in a special moment (“Hey! Right at this moment. Hey! The world just stop spinning. Hey! It‘s an endless night.”) Like “Roller Coaster”, “Party O’Clock” uses the theme of enjoying everything that life has to offer. It also appears to reference finding your truest self and exploring as that person. The music video begins with a modern look, but transitions to the fantasy forest described in the lyrics, the girls wearing flowy dresses and flower crowns to match the theme. Everything is beautiful and fairylike, and the same themes of friendship from “Roller Coaster” can be seen, as well as references to the balance between dreams and reality. It’s a confusing combination of messages hidden underneath a cheerful party pop song that’s fast and upbeat, pulsing with energy. The only part that’s a bit annoying is the repetitive syllables in the post chorus: “Beep-beep, jingling, jingling, keep-keep, mingling, mingling.” 
 “A Midsummer NMIXX’s Dream” is about riding the wild roller coaster of life, and slowing down and stopping time to enjoy it. The album is about dreams, and about stepping into a beautiful reality. If nothing else, NMIXX paints a vibrant, pulsing image of youth.
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