"Oh My Girl - Secret Garden MV reaction: The Flowers in bloom."

"Oh My Girl - Secret Garden MV reaction: The Flowers in bloom."

by:

The Vole

It has been a good 9 months before Oh my girl returned  , opening 2018 with Secret Garden. To say that I am excited with this song is an understatement. I wanted them to come back and to win. I am anxious about the song but like Jiho said this is not a song about love , this is a song about Hope and it is with hope that I write about this MV.

It took me a full 3 days to go and write something about the song and I wanted my initial excitement to die down a bit but I cannot help but be hopeful that this will be the one that will break down that wall toward their first win. 

Secret Garden opens with the now adult aged Arin looking mighty fine and taking the place of YooA as the center in this song. She is trying to show how grown up she is but the fact that she is still a baby still shows and I think most miracles will still see her that way. She opens up a tin circular box that shines on her face. This later translate as the place where OMG does all their dance parts! Yeah wouldn't we all want a circular tin box with 7 dancing girls in it.

The MV focuses on the 6 other girls as they try to do different aspirations and show some of those hopes. There are several nods to previous MV's of OMG and this is a fact that all Miracles will enjoy and for those who are becoming fans will have to unravel themselves.

Jiho opens the song while being shown on a train going to somewhere. Somewhere high as she actually she's clouds where this train is passing through which makes you think that she is on an actual plane instead of a train. I don't know if it is a foreshadowing of what happened to her ankle but she remains seated in the rest of the MV as in all the appearances of OMG this promotion season. Pangul (The Deer in Closer) makes appearance in the clouds and the pink confetti streaming into the windows is a nod to Cupid.

Binnie in this this MV is seen as a student  , alone in a classroom with an empty bird cage. Yup , the same bird cage she had in Windy day where she released a bird. And that bird like a once released love returned to her  , beautiful and strong. I like her parts in the song as she seems to show off her vocals like never before and her acting , she really is ripe for a drama somewhere. Among all the girls she has the great ability to convey charm so simply but powerfully.

YooA actually enters the Secret garden. Well at least her version of it and with her pleasant voice she enchants you. She invites you to come in for today. she invites you to see the secret garden. Imagine  , you and me she sings. And many Miracles don't even need to imagine all that hard with YooA offering a hand a pulling them deeper into that world. Her dancing is on point and clean as ever. The flower like , snapping "Whaacking" dance break that OMG shows her centers on her and it is something that the cast of Knowing Brothers were greatly impressed by. That dance move on 4:02 is impressive and as they did vocally they finish with a strong dance move while still being held by Arins soft vocals. The town where YooA floats around in her crystal enclosed Secret Garden can be a reference to that town in Coloring book where the girls are floating around in.

Seunghee is the ace vocalist showing off her talents once again and the parts at 3:41 of the song shows her singing playing off the voices of Jiho , Hyojung and YooA , making her voice stand out more and closing the song powerfully , I just wish that her voice was louder as it deserves to be heard.

Seunghee is shown as an artist here who makes dreams come true and with her vocals guiding OMG I believe that their dream of a first will come true soon. The scene with her sees the Stag hanging on the wall and the whale jumping from a page which is a reference to both Jine and A-ing.

Hyojung  , the candy leader is shown in a living room where she is seen a 3D fold out of the deer again in reference to Closer and some parts of A-ing as with all the fishes in the room. 

Mimi is in a diner working hard. She sings "Come with me Bae" closely with YooA's parts of the song. She does not rap in the main single yet again which might anger some miracles but I believe her part in this song is good and enticing as well. References include the big Lemon on the scene where Mimi was still sporting blonde hair in A-ing and the scene on  the plate where the Deer and the boat from Closer was seen.

Arin also has another reference to A-ing. Remember that scene at the opening of A-ing where she eats a banana and the banana seems to have regrown? She does some magic like that with her blue green umbrella in the opening of the song. She sits down with it on her left, it disappears  , the tin box appears in her hand and voila the umbrella is now on her right side! When did that happen? Magic! 

About YooA and Arin , as centers they both represent the Secret Garden. YooA even has the dress that has the flowers. She is the flower in that garden but Arin is also another blossoming flower that in the end OMG wants to support as well as seen in the ending of the MV. Since the closer era Arin and YooA have always been the center of the themes of their songs and Secret Garden has only added to this sense of story telling.

I hope Oh my girl will finally get the win that they deserve. I wait with excitement. I want to see their Secret Garden grow.