Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 August 18 Album tracklist: Frequency Album runtime: 3  minutes  Hello, everyone! You all know how I feel about the debuting groups! There's so much hope and potential going on with them that I just want to throw them at people and say "WOULD YOU LIKE ANOTHER GROUP?" with all the aggression that the caps-lock implies. In this instance, before I've heard this song, I'm fully on board with supporting them because the maknae turns twenty this year. So we are good to go. The actual debut date is unknown for them, but hopefully we can get them a little bit of traction before they debut. You can help me out with that right? This instrumental has a very ZEROBASEONE vibe to it while also being oddly lo-fi elevator music. It's a bit of an interesting combination, but it's actually pretty mild through most of the instrumental, although we do have a late-song kick up of its heels where it pretends to be more energetic, but it's also got a drop r...

Release date: 2026 August 26 Album tracklist: Without Wings , Curtain Call, PRESSURE, One More Kiss, Cross My Mind, Too Easily, Mr. Bang Bang, Best Mistake, REAL FROM THE FAKE, Do You Want Me Album runtime: 27  minutes  I've decided that I'm just going to have to have a repeat of 2024 when I started this. So everything is getting paused while I write them and get a bit of a backlog going so I can start posting three a day again. And this particular release, circling back to SF9 who is the star of this post, has six members with Zuho and Yoo Taeyang still in the military. We're getting through our military era with these guys slowly but surely. I kind of wish this song was more distinct in the instrumental department. We do have spots where there are a bunch of rests being used, and used well. But other than those spots, the instrumental is both very stable and very repetitive, designed to essentially provide the support through the beat and little else. This is the kind of ...

Release date: 2026 August 05 Album tracklist: Achilles Album runtime: 2  minutes  I'm so behind right now. It's fine. More or less. I'm tentatively hopeful over this as the last four or so comebacks they've had I've enjoyed. I'm hoping this will continue, but it's fine if I don't and I get a break. I'd like to like all the songs, but that's unfortunately not realistic. If I haven't said this recently, the reason I stuck with this group from debut, despite not liking their first few title tracks, is because I decided I was going to support them because they were all adults at debut and by the end of the calendar year, all five of them were in their twenties. That's something that's important to me, because it gives the idols a little more life experience and also lets them have those awkward teenage years of self-exploration and mistakes away from the cameras. The other added benefit is that the children also theoretically get a little...

 Happy anniversary, BIGBANG!! I am so late with this, but I was not going to skip this because it's the big 2-0 and I would have to make an entire other post to talk about why BIGBANG requires acknowledgement as one of the biggest playmakers in shaping what K-Pop became. I find it amusingly fitting that their company was founded by a member of the boy group generally acknowledged to be the first K-Pop group: SeoTaiji and Boys. Also, fun fact, I went to a cupsleeve event yesterday (as of writing this paragraph) for their anniversary and I really liked that they included TOP in the design, even if he was on one side and the three current members were on the other. Some related bookkeeping first though. There is a prison-striped elephant in the room with this group. If you are OT5 for this group, you may want to skip this post. If I acknowledge him, it will be with begrudging frustration and a curled lip, and only if I have no choice. I'd be lying if I said his immoral choices and...

 This was not the next one on my schedule, but in order to preserve my mini arc in the middle of August that I wanted, I'm going to have to find time later. Luckily, that post should be faster to do because there isn't a music video and I don't think it's been performed often by the group. It's still an event. To be clear. But this one is part of my little mini arc. I have an idea for a month where I do all songs that have the same title, but I haven't finalized when I'm going to do it or what song title to do. In the meantime, this is a lovely little taste to switch things up a little this month. DKB debuted in 2020 under Brave Entertainment as a nine-member group, though they're down to eight now. At the time this song was released, they were still nine. They haven't released anything in about a year, which is starting to get concerning, but Brave Entertainment is going to need money eventually since they've only got two active groups right now...

Release date: 2026 August 07 Album tracklist: 5 STARS; LA LA LA LUNE ; GET OUT; Lemonade; Wonder why; Medicine; At least, I tried; Forever young Album runtime: 28  minutes  Hi, everyone! I'm still here! If y'all remember his solo debut , y'all will remember that I am kind of head over heels with his voice. And I would be happy to shout to the heavens about his voice. Also, can we just be excited that he's got Wow on the album with him on one of the songs? I've got a soft spot for Wow because he's the one that laughed at me. But still! I love it when they have their groupmates on their solo stuff. And look at the runtime! I knew I liked him. This is not quite clubbing EDM music. It's very close to it with that beat style and the synthy grind that reminds me a bit of a metal key being dragged across a piano string, but the beat is just slow enough that it doesn't have the energy for clubbing. The use of silence is very well-done to help break up the song, ...