Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2025 August 26 Album tracklist: Under The Moonlight, AFTER GROWING UP, EVENING PRIMROSE, It must be love, Whisper Album runtime: 17 minutes  You know, I don't know why it's always so entertaining for me to find judges from the variety shows releasing music. Obviously they do, and obviously they're good at it, and obviously they know what they're doing, or they wouldn't be the judges. But much like with Onestar, this was a surprise. Still, I haven't actually heard him properly sing before and my expectations are practically stratospheric. But at the same time I understand that you can have the instincts, the training, and the technical knowledge and not be able to practically do a thing yourself. So let's see if he passes the practical. I assume he will. And also, he restores my faith because the title track and two other songs are nearly four minutes long. There's one that's barely two, but it's not the title track and the others a...

Release date: 2025 August 26 Album tracklist:  BLUE! Album runtime: 3 minutes  She's had a really good track record with her title tracks so far, which pleases me. I'm also pretty familiar with her voice because some lovely person suggested I do Heroine as a GH post and I spent quite a bit of time with her voice for that song. I'm excited about getting to do a proper review for her though, especially for a proper length song. I also had to delete like half of this review before I could post it because the amount of nonsense and spinning around in circles that my brain produces that it thinks makes sense when I'm too tired is both hilarious and irritating. Of course things result in results.  Goodness. The song is surprisingly upbeat for what I suspect to be devastating lyrics. It feels delightfully familiar while also feeling somewhat new. I'm reminded of the soundtrack to Parent Trap , not the 1961 original with Hayley Mills but the 1998 remake with Lindsay Lohan....

Release date: 2025 August 25 Album tracklist:  Devil's Jam , Devil's Jam(Inst) Album runtime: 7 minutes  Okay, so if you're a fan of cignature, you might be confused about that name because none of the cignature members went by that name. This is Jeewon! Whoo! Apparently this is her official solo debut, although she did release a solo song earlier than this. I also can say that I do occasionally listen to cignature. They're not one of my groups that make super excited to see music or content from, but I do have some of their songs in some of my playlists. So I am looking forward to seeing what she'll give us with this digital single. It's interesting that there have been a couple of songs released in the last month or so that have sort of an Indian vibe or overlay or something of the sort. It does make me wonder if something was prompting this the last couple of years for songwriters and for the companies to pick these songs. There are some synth effects that ki...

Release date: 2025 August 25 Album tracklist: Upside Down , Back & Forth, Ocean Drive, High & Dry, Happy Accident (feat. Sole) , 123 Dance  Album runtime: 18 minutes  Yes, the album is already out, but I wanted to get to this one first because if he gets a win for the album, a win on this one will likely come first. Also, I thought the present he got from Kai, I think, was so sweet. I love that. Wholesome support from the members. Ooh, that's some smooth and swanky R&B. That's actually really nice. It's slow and mellow, but it's not flimsy. The beat is really pronounced, though unhurried. This is an early Sunday morning kind of song, or perhaps a Tuesday night kind of song. Slow dancing in the kitchen to a song only the two of you can hear. Domestic and comfortable, but at the same time the amount of sheer, undiluted love wafting off this moment could probably power the room.  Chanyeol has such a good voice. I mean, the entire group is incredibly skilled and...

Release date: 2025 August 25 Album tracklist: XOXZ ; Wild Bird; Dear, My Feelings; GOTCHA (Baddest Eros); 비삑 (♥️beats); Midnight Kiss Album runtime: 17 minutes  There are two songs that are reasonable lengths on this. That's it. I feel like I should be grateful that any of them are over three minutes, but I don't understand why I should have to accept crumbs when other than those two reasonably lengthed, not a single one is over 2:45. Sigh. As a side note, I was actually rather impressed with them at KCon, and not just because I thought they exhibited good professionalism with the mic collision and loss incident. I'm actually pretty pleased with this instrumental, but there is an asterisk to that statement. It would have been really easy to have this song go fully the route of the milquetoast, and I think there may still be some residual from that trend within the song, but there's enough of a bite that the sound has moved on from the trend. Which I appreciate, hence wh...

  Ooh, this week had some interesting wins. Well, okay. First of all, this is the first time in a while that we've had a full batch of wins. The only way this could have been better is if After School Club had come off of hiatus. Alas. But that's fun regardless. But you know what's more fun? Three of the six were first wins for songs. And one of the six wins got a triple crown! That brings the song to ten wins, which is apparently 1/7 of the group's total wins, and makes that triple crowns from Inkigayo, Music Core, and MCountdown.  I picked a group that for the ASC re-run this week that is currently on a survival called A-IDOL, and I don't know how I feel about it because of the nature of this survival show. My girls Purple Kiss, Lightsum, and DreamNote are also on it, which is...concerning for a completely different reason. So give them all some love, yeah? (Other groups on the show are WOOAH and iCHILLIN, so give them some love too). Anyway, this is episode 571 f...