NMIXX “Strange Muse” A Cappella Highlight Medley (Choir Ver.)

Why Koreans care

K-pop fans call a highlight medley 하라메 (harame, “highlight medley”), an abbreviation for the pre-release sampler that introduces several album tracks. Here, the choir version turns that familiar promotional format into a vocal arrangement of its own.

In the Korean comments

One top comment reads, in translation, “I’m the composer who joined the choir arrangement for this NMIXX highlight medley. Please listen closely to the choir sound too.” Another supplies a precise listening cue: Bae’s falsetto passing into Sullyoon’s part.

What the words mean

명반 (myeongban, masterpiece album) means more than simply “an album.” When one commenter wonders what kind of 명반 (myeongban, masterpiece album) NMIXX have made “this time,” it is casual, exaggerated praise: they are already treating the unreleased EP as exceptional after hearing its preview.