i-dle's Minnie Drops First All-Thai EP 'i love you to the moon and back' on Her Birthday

i-dle member Minnie rang in her birthday on October 23 with a career first: the digital EP “i love you to the moon and back,” her first album sung entirely in her native Thai, released at noon across music platforms.

The three-track EP, reported by Sports World, collects songs about different moments of love, with Minnie taking part in writing and composing every track. Title song “to the moon :)” is a synth-pop love song about wanting to stay by a loved one’s side through every moment. “insomnia” captures the loneliness of sleepless nights spent thinking of someone, while “เมฆขาว (white clouds)” sends longing to someone far away through white clouds. The music video co-stars Japanese model Hibiki Tomiyama, picturing an ordinary couple’s days against the moon waxing from crescent to full, with a closing shift to Minnie’s perspective revealing she was the one who loved first.

Minnie described the title track as carrying a “warm and honest message” of loving someone enough to go to the moon and back. Writing lyrics in her mother tongue was unfamiliar territory: “I haven’t written many lyrics in Thai, so I worried about how to make them sound beautiful,” she said, adding that she is proud the lines came out naturally. “I’ve covered Thai songs many times, but this is the first time I’m sharing Thai songs I worked on myself,” she said. “I hope it becomes a gift to Neverland who waited for the album.”

The EP is her first solo release in about one year and nine months since her solo debut mini-album “HER.” Where “HER” showed her various sides and colors, she said, this record unpacks her feelings about love more honestly. To celebrate, the “MINNIE ‘to the moon :) POP-UP’ IN BANGKOK” runs October 23-25, closing with the “MINNIE SPECIAL LIVE IN BANGKOK” on October 25.