Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2025 June 12 Album tracklist: Click Clack, Only One Album runtime: 6  minutes  I actually wrote the other sections of the review first and am now typing it up. I didn't initially see a birth year for the maknae, so I put this on Underage Protocol just to be safe considering the age of the second youngest and their 2024 debut date. Turns out, I needn't have done so. Renewed sniffing around has revealed a birthday in February of 2007, which makes him eighteen right now, so we are good to go and I can move this song out of the playlist it's in and into the proper playlists. Spoilers. This is a genuinely bright and cheerful song. There isn't a whole lot of strong and distinct variation despite the three minute runtime, which is a little bit of a disapppointment, but the song does have a tonally distinct section. I'm not going to grumble too much over the song, although there isn't a whole lot of things that make me a little grumpy. To be fair to the le...

Release date: 2025 June 2 Album tracklist: Lady Marmalade Album runtime: 4  minutes  This will not be an overly long review as this is a cover. But after having discovered CREZL, I'm not about to pass up an opportunity to share how amazing their voices are. If I can convince even one more person to start paying attention to them, that will be good enough for me.  The instrumental of the track is somethow less interesting than the vocals, even though the instrumentals are richly textured by big guitar riffs, and the whole thing feels like jazz, but if the jazz was actually rock, which are two of my preferred genres to have as the underpinning for the song. My top favorite genre is unlikely to show up with any real representation, but Jin did manage it a little. He came close. The song has an intro with a single instrument, and it doesn't sound out of place because the intro still feels like the same genre as the rest of the song, which is something that I appreciate. Howev...

Release date: 2025 May 29 Album tracklist: Radar  Album runtime: 3  minutes  Congrats on your solo debut! This guy is incredible. Also, fun fact, I was rewatching Produce 101 S2 a couple of months ago because I wanted to see who else I recognized other than my NU'EST boys and I wanted to actually pay attention to the future members of Wanna One and who did I see? This dude. I may have squeaked in surprise, and after his performance on R oad to Kingdom: Ace of Ace , I think he's got a lot of potential as a soloist. I get one of my favorite sound effects! The echoey underwater breathing! It's definitely because of my love of FFX, but I do love it when that sound shows up in songs. Radar actually has a lot of interesting things going on in the instrumentals because we also get something like a telephone ringing to join the driving bass and the occasional science fiction warbles. It's also got a substantial section where the bass, which is basically the entirety of the ins...

Release date: 2025 June 9 Album tracklist: Beep, Beep - Japan Edition Album runtime: 5  minutes  I'm hoping this gets added to a later album, both versions actually, but it's an interesting strategy to bundle their Japanese debut with their new Korean single. Is it their Japanese debut proper? I don't know. What I do know is that I'm actually really excited for this. I'm kind of annoyed about the runtime because I'm not sure what the actual point is to having a single that is so far from being six minutes long that Spotify is rounding down for it. I'm sure you're all tired of hearing it. I'm tired of having to say it. But I will continue to point it out in the hopes that enough people realize how much of a problem this is and speak up about it.  If I had to describe the instrumentals in two words, they'd be "fairy dubstep." Which is a weird combination of words to use, but I really can't think of any words that describe the vibe of ...

  Almost a clean sweep for Seventeen. They're just missing out on The Show  now for this comeback. I actually like that N. Flying got that instead, because as proud as I am of the Carats for coming out for Seventeen like that, I also like the variation. So much DK in the thumbnails. Since After School Club is still on hiatus, it's also time for the weekly rerun. It turns out that if you go back far enough on After School Club, you run into a theme song. This week's rerun if episode 005 from all the way back in 2012 with the girl group, 9MUSES. I didn't know a whole lot about this group if I'm going to be honest, but I actually kind of like this song. And 9MUSES were such a tall group! They were apparently the girl version of SF9 (gorgeous and tall). There was also a guest appearance, sort of, by B1A4 with another song I was delighted to learn about and a music video that is exactly as I'd expect from this era. Show Champion: Seventeen "Thunder" MCountd...

Release date: 2025 May 28 Album tracklist: Songbird (Korean Ver.), Everlasting , Rise Again, Love You Like That, Love In Memory, Still You, HAPPY ME!, Born To Be, Run Like This, Moebius, LOG, Stand By Me (Korean Ver.)  Album runtime: 39  minutes  I think this might be my first review for these guys, which is fun because I've got a few of their songs in my one beloved playlist because they just generally hit my brain right. 2015 debut and if you were looking to get into them, now would be the time as this is the first release with the entire group post-military.  Strings are here! That's it. I'm sold. Amazing song. One of my top releases for the month. It's a little funny that I'm so easily pleased, but I really am a simple Fangirl at heart. Good news is we don't just have the strings. We've got my favorite triumvirate as well, with the piano, guitar, and drums, which is kind of requisite for a band. I really like how the intro and outro mimic each other with...