At the start of this month, Red Velvet celebrated its 10th year as a KPOP group! A huge congratulations for reaching this milestone! As part of the celebrations, Red Velvet released Sweet Dreams as part of a newer version of Cosmic (their 7th mini-album released in June this year, led by the same-name single).

Sweet Dreams is indeed a sweet song. The group sings about their journey with their fans, likening it to a child who has reached the age of 10 alongside them. For long-term ReVeluvs, this is sure to be a heartfelt song. Sweet Dream‘s instrumentation is a mellow and hopeful pop track. While the instrumentation isn’t exactly the most riveting piece of music out there, I did like the use of the heavy beats and synths. The song is already quite light overall, so the heavy beats were helpful in anchoring Sweet Dreams down, while the synths provided a nice complexity and texture to the song. As mentioned earlier, the song is sweet, and this comes down to the members’ vocals. Very light and airy on this side of Sweet Dreams as well. Like the heavy beats, the rap-like deliveries we get interlaced throughout Sweet Dreams help anchor the track down, while their high ranges bring out that high range quite nicely. I can’t pinpoint exactly if it is the instrumentation or melody, but something within Sweet Dreams reminds me of a nursery rhyme of some kind. Given the song’s analogy towards a 10-year-old kid growing up alongside Red Velvet, this felt appropriate for Sweet Dreams.

There isn’t a formal music video for this release. Instead, we got a ‘special video’ of Red Velvet recording Sweet Dreams, presented in a scrapbook format. Around these recordings were moments from past music videos, behind-the-scenes shots and the song’s lyrics, all presented in the same format. This concept worked well with the song and was a nice way to reflect on 10 years of music videos and other content. A proper music video would have been more satisfying if I were honest. But this works just as fine.

Song – 8/10
Music Video – 8/10
Overall Rating – 8/10