Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2025 March 17 Album track list:   High Horse , KNOW ABOUT ME , Slingshot (<★), Golden Recipe, Papillon, Ocean Album runtime: 17 mi nutes  They weren't up next, but they did have a music show win recently, so I'm going to bump them up in my draft queue. Congrats to NMIXX! I am deeply peeved at the average song length as that's less than three minutes, but that seems to be my standard emotion when finding new album releases these days. I'm very much feeling this to be an industry-wide problem, rather than an individual company problem (though there are certainly some companies I find to be a bigger problem because they combine the short songs with other things that frustrate me), and unfortunately for you all, no, I will not stop pointing it out. But with that being said, I did enjoy High Horse , so I'm tentatively hopeful with this one that I'll like it as well. I really liked High Horse . Please don't sleep on it, y'all. Okay. I'm ab...

Release date: 2025 March 18 Album track list: BEBE , DIAMOND, PIPE DOWN Album runtime: 8 mi nutes  Doing this one now because of the music show win, so congrats, STAYC! I was going to get to it eventually, but now is as good a time as any for this. I haven't found a song I really like from the group, though also to be fair I've only heard like four songs by this group, so I cannot definitively state that I am ambivalent towards their songs. I assume I'll find one. It just hasn't happened yet. Maybe it will be this one! There's a weird disconnect between the vocals and the instrumentals. I like them separately, but they don't seem like the same song together. There's a lot of synthy goodness going on in this song and some bright disco overlays to the percussion. There's also somewhat of a twinkling vibe going on here. I will say, and this is going to follow over into the vocals, that there's a part where both are going in a rolling staccato, that I ab...

Release date: 2025 March 17 Album track list: Intro : My, Only One , Memory Film Album runtime: 7 mi nutes  Still can't listen to this group until the maknae turns eighteen (next year) because he was fifteen at debut. Which stinks because they've put out songs I really want to have on regular rotation and songs I had  on regular rotation but had to remove when I learned this. This also means that I'm annoyingly excited to see what they're going to bring to the table so I can add it to the Playlist Of Songs I Can't Listen To Yet But Want To Because They're Just Good. I don't know it that's precisely what I called it, but I did title it like a Fall Out Boy song and that's the general gist. And I'd be upset about the runtime, but Only One is really close to three minutes, Memory Film is almost four, and if we remove the intro, we're still left with almost seven minutes for the single. I'll take it. There's a little bit of a jazzy vibe ...

  Well, all sorts of groups got wins this week, along with a Triple Crown! Congrats to all the groups for their first win for the songs! There isn't a single song that won on more than one show this week, which I like for the sake of diversity, and that means lots of different stages to share with you all. Also, three of the wins were with YG affiliated soloists/groups. After School Club had TNX (the group formerly known as The New Six) on, which was cool for them to talk about their new song before it comes out. Also, the amount of times they said something like "We didn't ask the company for permission, but it's fine" was hysterical, and one of the five of them is an absolute character. He's a delight. Also, the MCs on ASC announced this was the final episode of season 1 of ASC, which has lasted for twelve years, so they'll be going on hiatus for a little bit before the next season. So rather than just not include an ASC performance at all, because I can...

Release date: 2025 March 24 Album track list: Intro : RAW AND RAD, Sounds like Money, JeLLo(Sleepers) , HICCUP , You Me + -, Flip the Coin , F.L.Y (Fu**ing Lovely, Lonely Youth), Wonder, We Are Young, Outro : ZERO-SUM GAME Album runtime: 26 mi nutes  They'll have about a week to be with their older brother group before A.C.E leaves Beat Interactive. In the meantime, congrats on your official debut, NewBeat! It's been a long time coming! Just as a recap on the group, even though I'm ludicrously behind again, the eldest turns 23 this year and the maknae turns 17. They've been very active in public leading up to their debut, with most of them involved in A.C.E music videos or stages, as well as months worth of busking, which is very good to get them the performing-together-in-front-of-an-audience experience they need to really hit the ground running. And the JeLLo music video introduces them with their names, so if you wanted to help get that locked in, that's a thing...

Release date: 2025 March 17 Album track list: Feel the Bass, VVV , Starry Night,  Ain't Salty, Rose, Rock and Roll, Nothing, Miss Demeanor, Cross Over Album runtime: 31 mi nutes  Sangyeon has been added to my enlistment wall as I picked up a photocard of his specifically for this purpose. Congrats to The Boyz for their successful move over to One Hundred! It's been a few days since they dropped this, but from what I can tell, things seem to be going well. There's some big competition right now for those first place wins on the shows, but I wish fans and group good luck. I just swore in my head in about three languages seeing the run time on this song. Be still my soul. Do my eyes deceive me or is there only one song under  three minutes long? One Hundred Label. This is an excellent sign. Note: I didn't get this finished when I was going to and also, I was in a car accident ( again , this time  on my way home after work. Neither of them have been my fault. I am simply...