Lily discusses the message of โLOUDโ and its popularity across fandom edits on social media in an Interview with Teen Vogue:
โโ โIts message is romantic but expansive, capturing the exhilaration of wanting to love someone openly while leaving enough room for listeners to project their own experiences onto it. Before long, the song broke containment, taking on a life of its own. Fans carried it into other corners of the internet, pairing it with fictional couples, beloved characters, Tumblr-era moodboards, and love stories far removed from NMIXX itself. For a fangirl like Lily, the experience was unexpectedly emotional. โโSeeing your own lyrics being interpreted in a fandom space,โโshe says over a video call from Seoul, โโthat really meant a lot to me.โโ
Many of the most popular edits centered on queer love, suggesting that listeners had found something familiar in the song's yearning insistence on loving without apology.โ