https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q8Jskeps9w

Bottom line:

“See that?” gives NMIXX a grounded old-school hip-hop pocket, strange sound details and one compact change-up that supports the song instead of holding it hostage. Strong Dragon, Puff, 1Take, Add Blessed and Chase build the composition around clipped percussion and low vocal weight; C’SA supplies melodic glue and background vocals. The six members sound confident because the arrangement stops demanding a technical demonstration every eight bars.

The MV makes “stick out” literal through an uncanny neighborhood, doubled girls, animal signs and ordinary spaces behaving badly. I wanted the final chorus to develop the lower-register idea instead of repeating it almost unchanged, but this is the kind of NMIXX weirdness I trust: specific, musical and slightly rude.

Release file

Released: August 19, 2024, with NMIXX’s third EP, Fe3O4: Stick Out. This React is dated August 21 under the site’s one-to-three-day rule. Runtime: approximately 3:40 for the official MV. Exact upload: YouTube ID _Q8Jskeps9w.

Label / channel trail: JYP Entertainment and SQU4D through JYP Entertainment’s official channel. Performing lineup: LILY, HAEWON, SULLYOON, BAE, JIWOO and KYUJIN.

Credits: Lyrics by Mudd the Student, Omega Sapien, Wutan and Jasmine. Composed by Strong Dragon of THE HUB, Puff, C’SA, 1Take, Add Blessed and Chase. Arranged by Strong Dragon and Puff. C’SA provides background vocals, vocal direction and vocal editing; Strong Dragon is credited for vocal direction and various instruments.

Sound: Old-school hip-hop weight, sparse percussion, low-register verses, chant texture and a compact melodic change-up that opens the track without replacing its identity.

Sources: The exact official MV, credited JYP album file and published personnel trail are linked below.

The beat finally lets their lower voices live

The percussion arrives dry and close, leaving large pockets where a lower register can feel physical. NMIXX have always had more tonal range than title-track arrangements allowed them to use. “See that?” stops treating every member like she is standing in line for the same high note.

Bass weight and clipped rhythmic figures make consonants important. The song’s confidence comes from landing a phrase exactly, then leaving silence behind it. Swagger needs empty space or it becomes yelling inside a crowded elevator.

The change-up learned manners

NMIXX do change-ups. Pretending otherwise would erase part of the group’s musical identity. The important question is whether the transition reveals another face of the song or simply replaces it with a second demo.

Here, the melodic opening feels connected to the same strange neighborhood. C’SA’s vocal work and the composers’ shared harmonic choices make the section breathe without teleporting us into a separate comeback. The switch earns its space and leaves before asking for applause.

LILY uses precision without turning it into homework

LILY can make difficult singing look so clean that reviewers forget to discuss interpretation. “See that?” gives her smaller rhythmic decisions: a phrase held back, a brighter edge introduced exactly when the low texture needs contrast and a confident line that never becomes an audition clip.

Her strongest moment is not the loudest one. She changes the air around a section while preserving the group’s pocket.

HAEWON anchors the smirk

HAEWON’s voice carries authority without needing extra production weight. Her diction makes the rhythm visible, and her facial control sells the MV’s weirdness like she already read the neighborhood rules and found them boring.

She is especially effective during group phrases because her center does not swallow the other five. Leadership appears as timing, not ownership.

SULLYOON lets beauty become unsettling

SULLYOON’s clean tone and famously polished visual presence could make her the obvious “normal” one inside an uncanny concept. The video uses that expectation against us. Her stillness begins elegant and ends suspicious.

Vocally, she gives the melodic sections a smooth surface that makes the rougher returns hit harder. Contrast is her function, not decoration.

BAE sounds like the song finally found her hallway

BAE’s lower color is one of the track’s best decisions. She can sound dry, amused and slightly dangerous without forcing a generic rap voice. The sparse arrangement allows the grain in her tone to remain audible.

Her screen presence fits the crooked social world too. BAE does not react to strange imagery as if the director forgot to warn her. She looks like she helped arrange it.

JIWOO owns the rhythmic center

JIWOO’s attack is heavy enough to move the track and flexible enough to keep it from becoming square. She uses shoulders, gaze and consonants together, turning a line into one complete performance rather than separate vocal and choreography assignments.

The old-school pocket suits her. She does not need frantic production to sound powerful; the beat clears room and she fills exactly the necessary amount.

KYUJIN controls the acceleration

KYUJIN brings sharper speed and a younger spark to the group shape. When the arrangement tightens, she can increase intensity without making the previous members look underpowered.

Her performance also helps the final sections avoid fatigue. A quick directional change or newly focused expression makes a repeated hook feel physically renewed even when the music could have developed further.

The writers make “strange” collective

Mudd the Student, Omega Sapien, Wutan and Jasmine write around girls who refuse standardized judgment. The lyric does not isolate one quirky heroine and leave everybody else acting normal. Difference becomes a crew position.

That collective framing matters for a group sold through “mix” identity. NMIXX are not six ingredients waiting for a producer to combine them. The song works when all six recognize one another as deliberate outsiders.

The neighborhood is wrong in useful ways

The MV takes familiar spaces and removes their social certainty. Doubles, animal signs, distorted scale and suspiciously calm domestic images create a world where normal behavior no longer guarantees safety.

The girls respond with curiosity rather than fear. They do not escape the strange neighborhood. They occupy it, reorganize it and dare the camera to call them the problem.

The cat language stays slippery

Cats carry independence, observation and the refusal to perform affection on demand. The visual language suits a song asking whether viewers can see the members outside a standard frame.

The MV wisely avoids explaining every animal image as lore homework. A symbol can remain an atmosphere. Not every whisker needs a timeline video.

Old-school hip-hop still has a source culture

The beat’s swagger and rhythmic vocabulary come through Black American hip-hop traditions. Calling the sound “old-school” without naming who built the school turns culture into a preset menu.

NMIXX perform the style with skill. JYP and the senior creative team remain responsible for credit, education and collaboration beyond visual shorthand. Enjoying BAE and JIWOO in this pocket should make the lineage more visible, not less.

What I would change

I would rewrite the final chorus with a new low harmony or percussion dropout. The song discovers a rich lower-register identity and then gives the last hook almost the same architecture as the earlier one.

I would also hold one wide choreography shot longer. The members create strong six-person geometry, but the edit occasionally assumes a face is always more interesting than the traffic required to build the next frame.

What changed every time I replayed it

First replay, the uncanny neighborhood and cats owned the screen. Second replay, BAE and JIWOO’s lower colors made the beat feel newly designed for this lineup. Third replay, LILY, HAEWON and SULLYOON showed how much melodic control exists without vocal fireworks.

Fourth replay, KYUJIN’s acceleration kept the final stretch alive. Fifth replay, the compact change-up felt less like compromise and more like maturity. NMIXX did not stop being strange. They stopped asking a genre collision to introduce every personality for them.

The exact-file rule

This React covers YouTube ID _Q8Jskeps9w, the official “See that?” MV released August 19, 2024. Album audio, dance practices, performance files, stages and other Fe3O4: Stick Out tracks retain separate tracker records. Attachment 25446 belongs only to this upload and serves as hero, featured image, landing card and social image.

Sources and official routes

• NMIXX “See that?” official MVDaily+3.7KTotal views34.2M
• JYP official release trail
• Published album and personnel credits
• NMIXX group hub and six member routes

Lyrics and meaning

The lyric reclaims the gaze aimed at girls who do not behave correctly. “See that?” is not a request for approval. It is a challenge to look directly at the parts polite pop would rather sand down.

RaeRae verdict

NMIXX earn the replay because Lily, Haewon, Sullyoon, Bae, Jiwoo, and Kyujin do not treat difficulty as decoration. They make the exact file sound inhabited. Even when the arrangement is busy, the personalities are not swallowed by the trick.