Song Review:: Baby DONT Cry: Replay

• Release date: 2026 November 05

• Album tracklist: Replay

• Album runtime: 3 minutes

 That is at least a six year training period for the maknae who was sixteen at debut. Which means she was training since she was at minimum nine years old. I left them off Underage Protocol because of a technicality and a rarely used sub-rule, and so far I haven't heard of a reason to put them on it because the company sucks, but there's still over a month where they could be put on Underage Protocol. 

I feel like the majority of songs, especially in the latter half of the year, have been either heavy electronic music or they've been more easy listening. This is one of the latter songs. It's a very mild instrumental. It's pretty, don't get me wrong. but the main problem with songs that sound like this is that they're almost designed to be put on in the background and be ignored, which is not the place for a title track to be. I do appreciate that we've got some a cappella leaning sections, because at least that breaks up the audio, 

This is a gorgeous song vocally, even if there isn't a lot of individual color from the members' voices. But, again, there's just not a lot of vibrancy here. It's very pretty, but this is better suited to a b-side where it can spend the time to show off the delicacy in their voices. 

I really appreciate the red stage curtains because this music video is so strongly pastel that it matches the song well. The closest thing any of the members come to wearing a jewel tone or a saturated tone is black. I do like that we get a black and white section of the music video. That does a lot of excellent work for the music video. It's still very pretty and a little bland. But the black and white section does well for it.