Just A Little Fangirl Love

 Given my disposition, I'm sure you're already expecting me to ramble a bit here at the beginning to introduce everything and then get out of the way so you can get to what you and I both know is what you're interested in. I'm not going to. Instead, my thoughts will go down at the bottom, which you can read at your leisure after watching all the performances and then seeing the winners. See you then! performances ALLDAY PROJECT ATEEZ (HALA HALA (Hearts Awakened, Live Alive + Wonderland + The Real + BOUNCY (K-HOT CHILLI PEPPERS) + Phantom + In Your Fantasy ) BOYNEXTDOOR ( IF I SAY, I LOVE YOU + I FEEL GOOD + Hollywood Action ) THE BOYZ ( Stylish + You and I) CRAVITY (SWISH + Lemonade Fever ) FIFTY FIFTY (Pookie + Eeny Meeny Miny Moe ) INI (DOMINANCE (Korean Ver.)) KiiiKiii ( I DO ME (KGMA Ver.) Lee Chanwon (I Told You + Maybe Today ) MEOVV (BODY + BURNING UP + HANDS UP ) Park Seo Jin (Clown) Woodz ( Drowning + I'll Never Love Again ) Xdinary Heroes (ICU) xikers...

  I'm so annoyed about The Show, and I'm not even going to say it's fine. Anyway, congrats to the winners this week. MCountdown is apparently out of commission right now, so we only have the four wins. Congrats to both groups! And congrats on the Triple Crown! Whoo! For the After School Club Re-Run, we're hopping back to 2015 with Mark and Jackson of GOT7, also known as The Markson Show! Absolutely hilarious. Hosts were Eric Nam, Jamie, and Kevin Woo. Seriously, so funny. Have some funny times. The link down there goes to the episode. I don't know if I've ever outright said that. And I may share more than one performance for The Show, but for today, we're just going with one, Cravity from 2020, which is the year they debuted. And, as always, the links in the little spreadsheet directly below this go to my reviews of the songs. Show Champion: AHOF "Pinocchio" MCountdown: N/A Music Bank: AHOF "Pinocchio" Show! Music Core: NMIXX "Blue V...

Release date: 2025 November 10 Album tracklist: Focus, TUNNEL VISION , DYT, Flicker, Nocturne, 8-BT HEART Album runtime: 16 minutes   I don’t usually touch the remixes, but I figure that since one came out today, I’d take the opportunity to cover the original since I haven’t done that yet and I generally like ITZY. I worry about getting too invested in them because girl groups I like don’t seem to do too well. Disbandments. Hiatuses. It’s not good, and I don’t like it because I want to like more girl groups. Not that there aren’t hundreds of already disbanded ones I could get into, but I want some that I can actively support, you know? Funny thing about that run time, if you remove the first track, which only clocks in at around a minute-and-a-half, the average runtime goes up to three minutes. The instrumental is fairly uncomplicated, but very strongly afrobeats. I'm not sure if it's fully within the genre, but it's at minimum afrobeats-flavored. This is going to have som...

 What is up! I completely spaced out needing to do this, and time both has no meaning and is soup. Little nerdy D&D reference there for you. Warm you up for the fun times. So, first up, as always, we have the lovely debuts. I covered none of them, and I feel bad about that. So I'll probably snag one or two and do a later review for them. Still, even without that, I'm still going to hand them over to you lovely readers so that you can take a listen and decide if you like any of them. BE:MIN , the subunit of the boy group XEED, now called XD. LUVITA , virtual girl group made up of V-Tuber. Global girl group NWH:I . Girl group ARVVY (who debuted with everyone over twenty, by the way). Girl group E11iVYN (which is only a four-member group, and you pronounce that as "eleven"). &TEAM had their Korean debut (with three accompanying music show wins, and now they have their very own younger brother group, aoen who is going to get a review from me in a couple of days...

Release date: 2025 November 14 Album tracklist: baby blue Album runtime: 3 minutes   Is this secretly a pre-release? I have no idea anymore, so I’m not going to tag it as such until I get the definitive proof: it showing up in an album in the future. Still, I wasn’t expecting to drop something so soon from them. I’ve heard a tiny bit about this song from the Monbebes that wander around my various feeds, but I stayed away because I knew I was going to be reviewing it and didn’t want too much of it spoiled yet.  This instrumental could be out of Stranger Things . I’ve started my rewatch of that so that I’m ready for the final season, which is probably why I have it on the brain, but at the same time, I don’t think I’m wrong. The beat takes up the majority of the sound of the instrumental, but we’ve got rests and good movements within the song. It supports when it needs to, it highlights when it needs to, and it stays out of the vocals way, which is 75% of what I ask of instrumen...

Release date: 2025 November 14 Album tracklist: D.D.D.D, BANG BANG! , BANG BANG! (Inst.) Album runtime: 9 minutes   So, I couldn’t remember this group, but I thought I had done a review for them. The answer is no. I didn’t hit their debut song. So that’s back on my list a little bit higher. I do have to check on ages because this is a pretty freshly debuted group, and I need to know if they’re on Underage Protocol or not. Which, they are for both having too many underage members and also for having their maknae being thirteen at debut. She just turned fourteen last month. That’s even younger than BoA and Taemin. That’s so not okay. She’s not even through puberty yet. It’s just horrifying. Okay, moving on because if I think about it too long, I’m going to want to cry for her. At least the song is over three minutes. I have to find the silver lining. And we have an instrumental only track. Which is good, and also we have a return of a cowbell. This is such a vibe of a song. So many d...