Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 April 30 Album tracklist: GRWM (Get Ready With Me); It's Me ; paw, paw!; Mamihlapinatapai; Love, older you Album runtime: 13 minutes  I will get to the May reviews eventually. I promise. HYBE needs to stop forcing their groups to have two-minute songs for the title tracks. This is surprisingly clangy, a lot more so than I was expecting. The instrumental is a pretty strong EDM, with a heavy dose of nightclub and action scene, so the choreography had better match that.  I'm going to be looking at the lyrics, but I would swear that they're saying "Who's your bias? I'm your bias" at the beginning and throughout the song, and I just hit my limit on being able to listen to this song on repeat. There are a couple of spots where I remember thinking that I needed to remember to talk about it, because that part was actually kind of interesting but the entirety of the song in my temporary memory has been taken up by "Who's your bias? I...

Release date: 2026 April 30 Album tracklist:  Radio Album runtime: 4 minutes   I have no idea what to title the album for this. It’s fine, and you know why? Because I have a two hour plane ride and a bunch of songs that I wanted to do and captivity on a plane. I hate captivity. It makes me very restless, but it also makes me very productive, hence the number of reviews you’re getting right now. Four minutes of song seems ridiculously luxurious right now. Imagine having the room and space to build and grow a song like this to allow for not multiple different sections, but to craft the song as a story with plot progression and everything. There’s no rush, but the varying energy levels alone absolutely delight me. The drop is fantastic, allowing for a return to the sound of the beginning, an excellent callback, before finishing the song off well and strongly. Listen to their vocals. This is what you get from second gen idols. While a large portion of the song has them in a little...

Release date: 2026 April 29 Album tracklist:  Key Beats, Catch My Breath Album runtime: 4 minutes So, I forgot to take a look at the ages before I got on the plane, so I have no idea if this is should be on Underage Protocol or not. I’m going to put it there as a temporary hold in case they should be. Of course, should I get off the plane before I get this paragraph finished, then I’ll check during the fifteen minute layover I’ve got. (Spoilers: I did not.) If I don’t, then I’ll do the Underage Protocol just in case and look later. It’s not quite fully with the street-clanging, but it’s circling around that sound in what feels like a hip-hop genre. It’s got a weirdly midi sound to it sometimes, which definitely does make it intriguing, but it’s a bit too disjointed and noisy for me to say I love it on the basis of the instrumental alone. I’m treating this as a debut single even if it could be a pre-debut song. There’s a lot of rapping in this song, which I feel like is becoming mo...

 Second post of this theme for May! You know, I wish this had a performance I could find. So unfortunately, you're basically just going to get me yapping for this. It's fine though, both because this matches the theme and also because b-sides from first gen are wonderfully plentiful, even if the performances for them are not. Plus, we know that the odds are very good that we're going to get good vocals out of them. There is a group that I know we won't be able to say that about, but when I cover that group, I'll let you know. Like I've said. First generation K-Pop is absolutely wild in a way that is just fascinating to me. This particular group didn't have quite the drama of some of the others, though there was a member who had to leave due to a controversy, and they had a few lineup changes over the years. Baby V.O.X debuted in 1997 as a five-member group under DR Music (which was founded in 1989 and is also known as DR Entertainment, and still has active g...

  Y'all, I just went down a rabbit hole over INKODE, who we should be getting the second boy group debut announcement from soon. Anyway.  We have three first wins for songs this week! Whoo!!! Congrats to those groups! And I believe one of these may be a first win ever, so that's even cooler! For the extra performances, I went with a pretty recent After School Club with Ep. 664 from 2025 and KickFlip. For the The Show re-run, I'm giving you TOMORROW X TOGETHER back when they were still pretty new in 2021. And the two extra stages for this week went to ifeye and UNCHILD. As always, the links in the spreadsheet go to my reviews of the songs. The link down with ASC goes to the full episode because they get weird when I try to embed them. Happy watching, everyone! Show Champion: &TEAM "We on Fire" MCountdown: Cortis "REDRED" Music Bank: NCT Wish "Ode to Love" Show! Music Core:  NCT Wish "Ode to Love" Inkigayo:  NCT Wish "Ode to ...

Release date: 2026 April 29 Album tracklist: Bodyelse , Watercolor, I can't hold your hand anymore Album runtime: 10 minutes   It’s an interesting title for the song, I’m not going to lie. I’m curious to see how it works out. The man is also ridiculously busy, so it’ll be interesting to see how it’s used or applied or if it’s going to be a Korean play on words that I don’t understand because my Korean is not that good yet.  Something about this instrumental is putting me to sleep, not that it’s particularly difficult because I’m incredibly tired, but even the chorus, which admittedly does have more energy and pizzazz to it, isn’t enough to keep my eyes from trying to drift shut. Not that it’s boring, which it isn’t. There’s actually a decent amount of variation going on here, like a little bit of a music box sound underneath the slightly skittering beat. But it’s just perfect to make me want to get all comfortable and snooze. His voice follows suit as well. It’s the soft and b...