Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 March 03 Album track list: ROCKROCK , ROCKROCK Instrumental Album runtime: 6 mi nutes  So, as a debuting group, I need to figure out who they are. First of all, this is a band and all of the members are over 180 cm. One of them is a former member of the band 2Z. Three of the members are twenty-four or older, the other two do not have birth years attached to them, but given the age of the others, I'm tentatively inclined to not put them on Underage Protocol. I'm fully willing to later once we get ages, but for now, I won't. And it's an auspicious start to their careers that their pre-debut song is over three minutes. The electric guitar is fully front and center in this instrumental. I'm excited to see how this supports the vocals because while there's quite a lot of steady movement going on with the melody, it doesn't have enough movement to be the main star of the show, AKA the song as a whole. Still, what we have in this part, which I ge...

Release date: 2026 March 05 Album track list: Be full of Romantic, To. My First Love , Stuck with You, My Wish, Not Like a Movie , To. My First Love (Instrumental), Not Like a Movie (Instrumental) Album runtime: 22 mi nutes  Well, I really liked what turned out to be a pre-release single, so I'm tentatively excited for this one. Although a lot of the time if I love the pre-release I don't like the actual title track as much. Which is fine. I'm not required to love every song. I just hope I do. And it's a good length too, which really makes me hope for this.  More rock. At some point I need to just accept that I'm in a year of plenty and that I'm stockpiling the songs for when the tides change and we go back to styles and trends that I like less. Rather than being something groundbreaking or unusual, the majority of the song does exactly what it should based on the genre. It hits the expected genre story beats in a very satisfying way. And I'm using the word ...

Release date: 2026 March 04 Album track list: 00:30, Super Lazy, Dayfly, The Spark, Human Extinction , Stray, Bloodline, Downtown, STOP THAT, NA NA NA, Struggle, BEEP, Plastic, GLASSS, CINEMA , SAMO, To My January Album runtime: 49 mi nutes  Seventeen songs. Seventeen flipping songs. That ends up being a little bit shorter than three minutes for the runtime, but the title track is three and a half minutes, so we are good. I am happy about this. Thank you, Woodz. I also find it a little amusing that the shortest song on here is called "Dayfly". Anyway, back to the title track. That's our focus. That opening is so long. It's almost forty-five seconds of proper rock band intro with the instruments fully showing off before the vocals kick in. This is hitting so well. Seriously, there has been so much rock this year so far that I'm glowing. High energy, high angst. When the vocals kick in is one of the few times in the song when it's quieter, but no less dramatic. ...

 I had to dig to figure out if this was the title track or if it was simply a promoted single. If I am wrong, do tell me and I'll be happy to make those adjustments and changes, but as far as I can tell, this one was not the title track and thus belongs here. I've got some EXID recommendations to do (another one got added to the batch I got from Reddit, so I'm back up to three of them), but I'm trying to spread those out a bit more than what it would be, because if I did those to get them out of my submissions in a row, it  would be six of those posts in the space of a year-and-a-half, which doesn't seem like a lot, but that would be almost ten percent of these. The other submission I currently have (other than the one I've already got locked in for a posting date) is for a boy group and we're going to be pretty heavy on those at the end of this month. So I thought I'd go for someone that is not a boy group and is not in a boy group. This one has been bo...

Release date: 2026 March 03 Album track list: How the Fire Started Album runtime: 3 mi nutes  I swear, Eric has been everywhere the last little bit, and now he's dropping a single. Is it a pre-release single? I have no idea, but here we are.  This feels like country music, but it doesn't feel like agricultural country music, if that makes sense. Western, but not farmer. While the guitar functions almost like a percussion instrument providing the backbone of the instrumental, there are enough quiet little additions layered onto the guitar with subtle changes to the rhythm that keep the whole thing from being somewhat monotonous. One of the spots where that's most obvious is, interestingly, during the bridge, a section of section that typically gets a little bit more stripped down.  This is an all-English track, which did make me consider if I wanted to do this review or not, but this is Eric Nam. He gets a pass. He could drop a song in French and I'd be surprised, but I...

Release date: 2026 March 03 Album track list: 100%, I'm Alive , Obsessed, Twenty Something Album runtime: 11 mi nutes  Well, well, well. This is the new boy group for IST Entertainment, former home of The Boyz. And because this is a debut group, I need to check the ages, which I did before I started writing this and I found something hilarious. So this is a seven member group, with like four of them from Boy's Planet 2. Which is fine. Use the trainees you have and since most of them made it close to the end, they're likely that special blend of well-trained and slightly skittish that you often see with trainees that go through survival shows like that. But the thing I noticed, which made me laugh is that their birthdays range from January to November. Now, you may be asking yourself, "Fangirl, why is that funny? That's how birthdays work." It is exactly how birthdays work, which is why this is so funny. All of them, except for the maknae, were born in 2005, wh...