Song Review:: Monsta X: baby blue

• Release date: 2025 November 14

• Album tracklist: baby blue

• Album runtime: 3 minutes

 Is this secretly a pre-release? I have no idea anymore, so I’m not going to tag it as such until I get the definitive proof: it showing up in an album in the future. Still, I wasn’t expecting to drop something so soon from them. I’ve heard a tiny bit about this song from the Monbebes that wander around my various feeds, but I stayed away because I knew I was going to be reviewing it and didn’t want too much of it spoiled yet. 

This instrumental could be out of Stranger Things. I’ve started my rewatch of that so that I’m ready for the final season, which is probably why I have it on the brain, but at the same time, I don’t think I’m wrong. The beat takes up the majority of the sound of the instrumental, but we’ve got rests and good movements within the song. It supports when it needs to, it highlights when it needs to, and it stays out of the vocals way, which is 75% of what I ask of instrumentals. 

There was someone on Threads when I checked this morning that was like “I don’t normally like this style of song, but really there’s no denying how good their vocals are.” There was also someone losing their mind over the music video, so I’m looking forward to that. As we know, I have a lot of love for harmonies and fun vocal layering. Most of the song has at least two of them at a time, I think, which is great. Love that. And I think there may be bits where there are three of them at a time. This. Is. What. I. Want. Gorgeous voices. Intricacies in the vocals that allow for complex sounds. Very nice.

Well, that's not a sad music video at all. Nope. And the use of the cool colors definitely doesn't support that in any way. Absolutely gorgeous, though. I love the use of the wing imagery as well as the water imagery.