Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 May 11 Album tracklist:  Feel It , Feel It (inst.) Album runtime: 6 minutes  I'm pretty sure this man needs no actual introduction because it's Rain. Pre-release? Not a clue. If it is, I'll tag it as such later. We're starting off with a surprising and strong use of a stereo system. That start pinballed a little, and I love it. I also love the prominent use of the brass instruments here. The drop at the very end is a little sudden, but it lingers long enough ease you back down instead of opening a hole underneath your feet into an endless abyss. I appreciate it when songs take care of the listener like that. But as much as I like the instrumental, it doesn't quite feel complete, but I'd bet it's because it's missing the vocals. There we go. There's the missing piece. That's actually really strong of the song to require both instrumental and vocals to need each other to have a complete sounding song. The vocal gymnastics this ma...

Release date: 2026 May 13 Album tracklist: Us Album runtime: 3 minutes  Digital single, incoming! Odds are decent that this one will eventually be included with whatever their next mini album is (or maybe an upcoming full album? They're due for one) Since their rebrand from Nowadays, I've been enjoying their music a lot more. But this one, this one I'm going to like. I have a very strong feeling that I'm going to like it. One, it's member written with three of them being the sole lyricists and one of those three also working on the composition. Two, it's for the fans, and if there's anything I'm a huge sucker for, it's songs that sound like they could have come out of a musical based on a French book. But also, it's fan songs. I love fan songs so much. And this is a full three-and-a-half minutes.  When this song softens, it really softens. The electric guitar gets a lot of time and attention to propel the song, which it needs to provide that stro...

Release date: 2026 May 07 Album tracklist: Rush Rush , Supalove, Rush Rush (Inst.) Album runtime: 8 minutes  Two and a half minutes for a debut song. Not even, technically. That's a big sigh from me. So! Who is this group? Well, it's the debuting team from the survival show B:Boys, which was as pleasant to watch as Boys II Planet was brutal. I didn't go into every episode dreading the elimination because they didn't have fifty getting eliminated at a time. Not that they didn't work incredibly hard, but it's easier to take as a viewer when it's at most three trainees getting eliminated, you know? I'm very excited to see what they'll do, though even if I'm as disappointed by this runtime as I am. Also, the eldest has already completed his military service (yay) and the two youngest are the only members who are underage, and they'll both be seventeen by the end of the year. Also also, there is a huge Monbebe in the group. He was beside himself w...

Release date: 2026 May 06 Album tracklist: WE WANNA GO , WE WANNA GO (Instrumental) Album runtime: 5 minutes  You know, I would not have guessed that I'd be doing a review of a Wanna One song unless someone requested a review, but I definitely wouldn't have expected to do a new Wanna One song when I started this little blog. I have a bit of a complicated feeling toward the group, for some obvious reasons, but that doesn't mean that I'm not happy that most of them are back together. But it's less than three minutes. But it's a good thing that this is an OST otherwise I'd be very grumpy about this being less than three minutes. This sounds like a third gen version of ZEROBASEONE. There's a lot of bright energy to the song, an abundance of joy, as it were, which is probably the most fitting thing that I could think of for a reunion OST song, you know? This isn't an official comeback, so it's not dependent on declaring "We're back" with...

Release date: 2026 April 29 Album tracklist: Hello-Goodbye; AWAKE ; FEVER; Adore; Love Me Like You Do; Spring, with You Album runtime: 18 minutes      Okay, this is the last of the new songs I downloaded for the productive captivity I’m in on the plane. After that, it’s time to head over to the BBS post that I’ve already started, thank goodness, and start yapping about that. I’m not what it is about this song that makes me think of cold and ice, but I’m picking up on a very particular coolness to the song. There’s a range in the pitches and tones of the instruments we’re hearing, from the low buzz that make for an almost EDM nightclub situation to a skittering beat. The song also uses the stereo system well, though it’s subtle enough that I didn’t catch it until after my half hour nap and I let everything get a bit of a recharge on my end. I feel like this may be a yearning and pining song, which I cannot tell you how much I am here for it. Maybe more yearning than pinin...

Release date: 2026 May 06 Album tracklist: $ECRET no more, ZAP , WORK , TBD, B'yond me, SOUPASTA, OFF-AIR, ZAP - ultraviolet remix, WORK - anonymous remix, SOUPASTA - unconscious remix, DOMINO ~ butterfly effect, cloud palace - collective soul remix Album runtime: 34 minutes  The title track is too short for me to want anything to do with it, not when the first track is obviously a callback to a song I really like of theirs and is also three-and-a-half minutes long. It's also not the shortest song on here, although that's only because the song shorter than it is a remix of this song. Big sigh from me. Big sigh. Still, it's good news that Billlie continues to make and release new music, which is what we're looking for. Bad news (and this is nothing against the members because they had nothing to do with it), this album is currently embroiled in a potential-use-of-AI legal battle. That's another big sigh from me. That's interesting. While most of the aural lan...