RAERAE REACTS · BABYMONSTER · OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
Love In My Heart: BABYMONSTER Chased a Rainbow and Let the Vocals Breathe
Seven girls leave the performance warehouse, run through fields and chase the beginning of a rainbow. “Love In My Heart” is bright pop built for an encore, but the video turns it into a small youth film about becoming a group before the road changes everybody.
Overall vibe
Open-road pop with an analog youth-drama filter. The drums move, the guitars brighten the edges, and the melody keeps climbing toward a chorus that wants thousands of people shouting together.
The hook vibe
The hook is release. Verses hold the feeling close; the chorus decides hiding is more exhausting than confession. It is not subtle, but an encore song should not require a seminar before people can sing it.
What I love
- The vocal room: nobody has to fight a wall of synths to sound human.
- The seven-color idea: each member becomes one part of a rainbow rather than another person in matching clothes.
- The locations: reed fields, hills and the vintage hideout give the song air.
- The lack of choreography pressure: expressions, running and friendship carry the video.
- The member credits: Asa and Ruka appear in the lyric file, which gives the group a real hand inside its own confession song.
What I hate—or at least side-eye
The video walks directly toward nostalgia and never pretends otherwise. There are moments when the soft focus, road-trip framing and meaningful sky feel one bicycle away from a coming-of-age commercial. The members’ natural chemistry saves it from becoming stock footage.
The song also reaches for emotional uplift so consistently that the bridge could use one small shadow. A cracked voice, unresolved lyric or minor-key interruption would make the final release hit even harder.
Lyrics: stop hiding the fire
The narrator can no longer manage a feeling that keeps growing. The heart is framed as something alive and difficult to contain, and the solution is not to become cooler; it is to finally give the affection away.
WHERE THE NOISE, Jared Lee and YG share lyric credits with Asa and Ruka. Kang Uk-jin, Diggy and Jared Lee are credited for composition, with Kang Uk-jin, Diggy and YG on arrangement. The member credits matter because this is not a rap-unit track where participation is expected. Asa and Ruka helping shape a bright emotional song expands the creative file beyond swagger.
Video story: finding where the rainbow begins
Director Yang Soonsik of YSS Studio builds the music video as a journey rather than a stage. The girls travel through natural spaces, gather in a lived-in hideout and move toward the impossible idea of finding a rainbow’s starting point.
YG’s official explanation connects the seven colors of a rainbow to seven distinct members converging into one group. It is obvious symbolism. Obvious is not automatically bad. BABYMONSTER’s pre-debut story involved public evaluations, a threatened five-member lineup and Ahyeon’s temporary absence. A seven-color image lands differently when fans remember the lineup was not guaranteed.
Hidden meanings and visual details
- The rainbow: seven colors, seven members, one image only visible when conditions align.
- The hideout: a private group world before touring turns every room temporary.
- The open landscape: the opposite of trainee rooms, evaluation cameras and controlled sets.
- Analog texture: memory rather than immediate content; the video wants to feel remembered while it is happening.
- The journey: the destination is less important than all seven staying in the same frame.
Member moments
| Member lane | Why it works |
|---|---|
| Rami and Rora | Warm vocal weight gives the chorus emotional ground. |
| Pharita and Chiquita | Clearer, brighter colors keep the song airborne. |
| Ahyeon | Power becomes yearning instead of competition. |
| Ruka and Asa | Their rhythmic instincts and lyric credits connect the heart song to the group’s hip-hop spine. |
RaeRae take
I am an easy target for found-family road trips and rainbow symbolism. I know the video is pressing the emotional button. I can see the finger. I am still letting it press.
What makes “Love In My Heart” important is not that it proves BABYMONSTER can sing softly. We knew that. It proves their catalog needs emotional architecture between the monster entrances. If every song is a door being kicked open, eventually nobody remembers what the room was for.
