Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2024 November 27 Album tracklist: Baby, if you, Make Me Right, Chosen, Take it easy, Crash , Preview, °C(Temperature), Right back, Inside, Cloud nine Album runtime: 34 minutes  Leader! Wasn't he part of the Don't Stop Me Now performance at the one Gayo Daejeon? That likely was the first time I heard his voice, and because he's the leader and I know how I am, if I ever spend much time getting to know the group, he'll end up my favorite. It's inevitable. There hasn't been a group that my instinct for leader selection has failed yet.  Well, okay, hello there, funky guitar. And audience participation snapping! But that guitar really takes the focus among the instrumentals, especially since it's varied between the low, bassy funk and the higher. The ebb and flow of the song is genuinely pleasant and utilizes rests incredibly well to highlight his voice in some places and to keep it well supported in others so that there isn't an energy drop dur

Release date: 2024 November 25 Album tracklist: IZNA , TIMEBOMB, IWALY - izna Version, DRIP, FAKE IT Album runtime: 13 minutes  The project group from I-Land 2 is finally debuting. I say finally. It's a little weird seeing names I actually recognize in the debut list. Unlike ZEROBASEONE and Kep1er, their survival show siblings under WAKEONE, izna has a standard contract so, assuming something weird doesn't happen, they should be around for more than a few years. And, because they're a newly debuted group, I get to take a look at their ages in slight trepidation because while I remember that there were some fairly young contestants, I don't remember them making it to the end. But I'm happy to report that they barely squeak by with the majority of age and the maknae turning seventeen pretty soon. Her birthday is in January. The runtime physically pains me though. The title track is barely over two and a half minutes, and only one of the songs is over three, and that&#

  Release date: 2024 March 11 Album tracklist: Wish You Hell , His Car Isn't Yours, Best Ever, Better Judgement, Queen Of The Party, Vermillion Album runtime: 9 minutes  Before I plunge into the laundry list of recent debuts because the amount panicked me for a moment, I'm going to do a March release to help fill that list out a little bit better and to ease me into the laundry list. Who better than Wendy to avoid doing the one that I'm most aware released last March? Plus, it's been eight-and-a-half months since this released. Also, the demon child (my cat named T'Challa who has intensely strong opinions about K-Pop and has both an ult group and a bias within that group, and yes, it's weird for me too) has settled into my lap because he's cold while I write this, so I'll have to let him take a listen. He's got surprisingly good taste. I don't know that I've ever had him listen to Red Velvet in either solo or group form, so I'm a little c

Wow, NCT DREAM has been sweeping the music shows this week. Congrats to them, and well done, fans. You worked hard successfully. Aespa caught another post-promotion win, which is good. There wasn't a showing of MCountdown this week, likely because of MAMA, which I just realized yesterday while I was looking at some BIGBANG stuff needs to be MAMA and not MAMA Awards because that's redundant and would be MNet Asian Music Awards Awards and all I can hear is that one guy from the Doctor Who episode being all weird about ATMOS System for the exact same reason. I really don't like the character, but he does have a point there. Everyday, there's something new to learn. On ASC, we had the project group The CrewOne from Ace of Ace , and they're still not fully cohesive, but the survival show helped as a trial by fire, I can guarantee it. It was nice seeing them and Cravity get to hang out sort of without it being a stressful situation like a survival show and without compet

Release date: 2024 November 25 Album tracklist: Be Alright Album runtime: 4 minutes  This is the second of BTOB's singles they're releasing at the end of the year. BTOB is just so cool. Like, I know I'm super biased about the whole thing, but it's been a whole year since they split from CUBE now, and they're doing ALL the things. You can't swing a dead catfish without hitting them doing something online, especially the four at BTOB company which are the ones who did this song, although I'd bet 100% that spots were written in for Changsub and Sungjae. That's what they do. They keep spots for their missing members (they did this on Kingdom with Show and Prove , with poor Changsub having to take the future low Hyunsik notes as well as the future high Sungjae notes. He complained. Endlessly. It's hilarious.) and then just give those parts to the members who can handle it.  Is it just me or does the song start almost the exact same way as Love, Money, Fam

Release date: 2024 November 1 Album tracklist: Hit The Floor Album runtime: 3 minutes  Considering Ace of Ace  has been over for weeks, I had no intention to do any reviews on the final tracks. But by the time this gets published, The CrewOne will have been on ASC, which means that I have to follow my rules. For the uninitiated, The CrewOne was a team put together for Ace of Ace  consisting of the fourth gen boy groups ATBO and JUST B. Apparently disbandment was in their future before the two groups got put together, which is completely ridiculous as JUST B debuted in 2021 and ATBO debuted in 2022. I'm sorry, there are a number of groups that went on to be very successful after three not-successful years and if their companies had disbanded them, the face of K-Pop would be radically different. And yes, one of those groups I'm talking about is in fact BTS, though I wouldn't be me if I didn't also mention NU'EST here. But, I digress. If The CrewOne are going to be an