Six seconds the track doesn't have, eyes closing and opening: eight things you missed in NMIXX's '긴 소원 (Birthday Wish)' video

NMIXX's '긴 소원 (Birthday Wish)', the title track of the mini album 'Strange Muse' released on the 19th, is a birthday song. The chorus keeps coming back to 'Celebrate it, celebrate it, 초를 불어' (blow out the candles). NMIXX's earlier songs are laid out in the October 15 primer, and the release news is in the October 20 news briefing. Here are eight things that are easy to miss on a rewatch. Times follow the 3:30 official music video.

0:02 · A birthday song that opens with an epitaph

The song starts with 'Let's celebrate' at 0:00 and, right away at 0:02, sings 'Here lies a broken heart'. 'Here lies' is the phrase carved on gravestones. 'Rebooting into a new chapter' follows at 0:04, and the drums come in at 0:07 with '서로 다른 차원의 틈에 널 마주해' (I face you in the gap between different dimensions). Meanwhile the screen shows the members in white dresses on piles of hay in a pink-lit barn.

0:13 · The title between the arched windows

From 0:08, a crowd dances in a golden hall. In the wide shot of the whole hall at 0:12–0:15, '긴 소원' and 'Birthday Wish' appear over the center arched window. The same golden hall returns at 3:22, at the very end of the video.

0:25 · A white cake with towers

The lyrics include '흔들리는 촛불에' (in the flickering candlelight) at 0:16, and the chorus says '초를 불어' (blow out the candles). From 0:25, next to a member lying on a silver sofa, a white cake with several towers, like a castle, sits on a stand.

1:12 · Someone on the angel's shoulder

As '첫 마주침, 봐 우리의 birthday' (first encounter, look, our birthday) arrives at 1:12, the camera looks down on a giant white angel statue in a courtyard surrounded by scaffolding. On the angel's shoulder sits a small figure dressed in black.

1:38 · Pearls pouring onto the floor

While 'I'm already in love' stretches out from 1:35, pearls fall in a line between two pairs of feet at 1:38 and pile up on the floor. At 1:41 a hand rests on a pearl necklace.

1:42 · Six seconds the track doesn't have

Going by the synced lyrics on Bugs, the track starts the second chorus, '눈 감고 make a wish' (close your eyes and make a wish), 6.8 seconds after 'I'm already in love', the same gap as before the first chorus. But the video adds six more seconds or so here. From 1:42 the voice fades until it's barely audible at 1:44–1:46, and the member on screen, eyes closed, slowly opens them at 1:45 and looks into the camera. After a short burst of drums, '눈 감고 make a wish' starts with the drums at 1:48.5.

2:38 · English lyrics stacking up on screen

In the bridge, the drums and bass drop out from 2:20, and the drums return at 2:36. Then from 2:38, English lyrics appear in small white type off to one side of the screen. After 'To long nights' (2:38), 'I'd lose', 'my way', 'a thousand' and 'times' stack up one line at a time (2:40–2:41), and 'to find you' appears at 2:43. The picture has gone back to the pink barn from the start of the video.

2:50 · Six on the edge of a stage under the sunset

At 2:50, ahead of the last chorus, the picture switches to a stage under a sunset sky with scraps of paper flying. At 2:58 the six members sit side by side on the edge of the stage. That's the scene in the lead photo. The video goes back to the golden hall from the start at 3:22 and ends. Apple Music

According to the Bugs credits, eight people wrote the lyrics together: 유가영 and 서린 (ARTiffect), 송희윤 (ONCLASSA), SINCE, 전예진, 김상은 (Jamfactory), 전세희 (INHOUSE) and Kristine Bogan. The music is by 2Summery, Kristine Bogan and Ido Nadjar, and the arrangement by 2Summery. The track runs 3 minutes 20 seconds.