After rocketing through a reality competition, the six-member group embrace their weirdest selves on official debut single ‘BOOOOOORING’ b abyMINT are game for whatever. The Taiwanese girl group’s biggest single, the absurdly titled and TikTok -viral ‘Hellokittybalahcurrihellokitty美味しい’, is stuffed with musical ideas: an opening cheer routine set to retro video game synths, a playful rap about eating your vegetables, and a rave breakdown that trails off into cathartic screams. Watch babyMINT’s six members lazily floss and tackle the song’s head-banging choreography alongside its maximalist production, and you’ll find yourself breaking into a wide grin.
LIN of babyMINT. Credit: HIM International Music Inc. babyMINT formed via Next Girlz , a Taiwanese reality competition between six trainee girl groups that aired last year on YouTube .
Over 12 weekly episodes, they went through near-constant stylistic switches: no idea felt off-limits as they put their whimsical and eccentric flair on trendy sounds like hyperpop and drum’n’bass. Reflecting on the show, they consider it a learning experience. Each round’s experimentation helped solidify the babyMINT concept and made them more self-assured on- and off-stage.
“This is babyMINT,” asserts Vikky, “we are weird and we accept it.” The six members who made their official debut as babyMINT last month – LIN (who was formerly known as Lin Lin in the now-defunct K-pop group Cherry Bullet ), Vikky, .