How NMIXX Turns Love into a Paradox
NMIXX’s first full-length album Blue Valentine isn’t just a love story. It’s a deconstruction on how complicated the emotion actually is. The group delves into the complexity of romance. The album highlights how joy, sorrow, sweetness and heartache can intertwine until they’re almost indistinguishable.
The two singles, SPINNIN’ ON IT and Blue Valentine, serve as mirror images of love’s contradictions. One caught in its chaos, the other seeking warmth in its aftermath.
Spinnin On It: When Love Becomes Its Own Trap
SPINNIN’ ON IT is about the pain of being in love with someone you feel you can’t live without. Even when things are at their worst, you’ll still be each other’s “whatever”.
“You are my hero and villain
Umbrella handed by you after making me cry
In this messed-up timing
I’m trapped with you, yeah (Do it, do it)
We stick together like a bomb
No clue when we’ll explode
In between sighs, bombard with words
It’s getting hard to breathe (huh)
No matter where I look, it’s a blackout
In the midst of confusion, we fall, oh”
So done with love (so done with love)
So done with hurt (so done with hurt)
This endless heartache (this endless heartache)
But you are all I need (but you are all I need)
I’m craving for this obvious story even more
We’ll still be each other’s, whatever (Say whatever)
See you tomorrow
We been spinnin’ on it, spinnin’ on it”
The music video brings these contradictions to life through visual metaphors. Cupcakes are pierced with pins. The members get into a massive food fight and throw pieces of cake at each other. The imagery illustrates how something sweet can hurt you, even if it looks harmless.
In unit scenes, NMIXX appear close and intertwined. In their solo shots, they seem lost in hollow, empty spaces. This contrast mirrors the way love can swing between warmth and despair within a single heartbeat.
The members have described these visuals as intentional. They paint a portrait of love’s dangerous charm. The song doesn’t glorify the pain of attachment, but it doesn’t deny it either. Instead, SPINNIN’ ON IT lingers in the middle, where most relationships live. It’s messy, irrational, but deeply human.
Blue Valentine: Lighting a Fire in the Cold
If SPINNIN’ ON IT is the storm, Blue Valentine is the stillness that follows. A moment to face what love leaves behind. As the album’s title track, it sums up the theme of the whole album.
Lyrically, the song explores a desire to light a fire inside a cold heart. It’s a desire to find beauty in imperfection and endurance in loss. The title itself “Blue” (associated with sadness) and “Valentine” (the symbol of romance) embodies how even emotions that are the polar opposite of each other can co-exist.
“Changing, the heart’s weather, roll in cloud
Lonely in together, I can feel it now, can you feel it now?
Rollercoaster, even though we’re shaken and unstable
Truth is we’ll come back together, so it doesn’t matter
You might be my end game (yeah)
The cost is this worst pain (you might be)”
“If this love is over
I’d still dive back in again
This love is colder
I’ll keep the fire lit in mine
You’ll always be my blue valentine
You’ll always be my blue valentine”
The music video visualizes this duality. Scenes of the members hanging out and having fun. There’s also a scene of the house the girls are living in blowing up. Cool blue and silver tones dominate the palette, interrupted by flashes of yellow that hint at lingering hope. Dreamlike sequences blur the boundary between memory and reality. It’s a lot like how love often exists somewhere in between. Everything about the song feels nostalgic, like remembering a dream long after you wake up.
The Beauty of Contradiction
At its core, Blue Valentine isn’t about falling in love. It’s about understanding it. Through SPINNIN’ ON IT and the title track, NMIXX frames romance as a paradox that isn’t easy to define. Love isn’t red or blue. It’s a range of different colors.
The beauty of love doesn’t come from its perfection, but from its contradictions. NMIXX doesn’t resolve the tension that comes from loving someone. Instead, they embrace the pain and joy that exists inside their heart. Perhaps that’s what makes love so enduring in the first place.
