Music / LOOSSEMBLE

Standing L-R: Hyunjin, Hyeju, Yeojin. Seated L-R: Go Won, ViVi.

LOOSSEMBLE is a South Korean girl group that debuted on September 15th, 2023. The group is comprised of members from then-upcoming group LOONA following the members' high-profile legal dispute with their company BlockBerry Creative (which each member won in 2023.) The five members signed under newly established company CTD E&M.

Members:

• ViVi (1996)
• Hyunjin (2000) - Leader
• Go Won (2000)
• Hyeju (2001)
• Yeojin (2002) - Maknae

Discography:

• Loossemble (2023)
• One of a kind (2024)

Tropes

Tropes relating to their songs and music videos

• Alien Invasion: "Girls' Night" shows an unknown invading army of robot drones targeting the girls, and succeed in capturing Yeojin.
• All Just a Dream: The ending for "Sensitive" shows Hyunjin waking up in a cryopod on a spaceship, with the implication that everything we see beforehand is a simulation based on the girls' memories.
• Ambiguous Situation: There's a lot we still don't know about how the members ended up where they are in-universe, though the storyline clearly draws parallels to real life by referencing their history in LOONA.
• Big Damn Reunion: After waking up from cryosleep, Hyunjin finds ViVi piloting the spaceship and hugs her.
  Hyunjin: Unnie...
  ViVi: (Turns around) You're here.
• Holographic Terminal: ViVi is seen controlling one at the end.
• Mental Time Travel: Seems to be what's happening to the members as their bodies are shown to be sleeping in cryopods at the end of the video. This would also potentially explain why we see two older women at the start reverting back to Go Won and Hyeju.
• Mood Whiplash: For the first three minutes, "Sensitive" is your standard K-pop MV and is rather bright in tone. Then, once the song ends, it shifts course into what feels like the ending of a sci-fi film showing the girls on a spaceship!
  • "Girls' Night" follows this trend, though the sci-fi elements are shown more throughout this time. Once again, the song and MV mostly show the girls dancing and partying, but then the looming threat of the strange alien drones watching the girls comes to a head as by the end, it's revealed the mysterious invaders captured Yeojin.
• Or Was It a Dream?: Everything we see for the first three minutes before The Reveal seem to indicate that everything was a dream, yet there's one rather unsettling shot of a shadowed figure watching the girls from afar.
• Pretty Butterflies: There are a few points where the girls' have butterflies on their clothes, heavily tying to the symbolism of change that they represented in LOONA's lore.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: The final shot of ViVi shows her eyes glowing an ominous red. But why this happens is unknown for now.
• Robot Girl: Despite appearing and acting quite human, ViVi is an android, explaining why she was the only one awake on the spaceship.
• Wham Shot: In "Sensitive", the song ends with a shot of the car the members were in coming to a halt as the members vanish in a flash of light. While that would've been a good enough Cliffhanger ending, the next shot sees Hyunjin waking up from a futuristic cryopod and seeing a total of twelve pods, most of which are empty aside from a few which indicate the other members aside from her and ViVi are still inside.

Miscellaneous

• Cloudcuckoolander: Hyunjin is definitely the quirkiest member of the five.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: ViVi is most often this for Hyunjin.
• Five-Man Band: Hyunjin is the leader of the group, ViVi acts as her foil as she is also the oldest member of the group, Go Won and Hyeju are frequently paired together, and Yeojin is the baby of the bunch who everyone looks after.