Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 June 15 Album tracklist: SOAR, Do your dance , D-D-Done, Overdrive, Like a Bomb, In a Loop Album runtime: 18 minutes  I actually completely forgot that they'd released their new album, and I was looking forward to it too. Time is a soup right now and even the endless parade of releases I'm aware of and looking forward to is doing little to keep my attention on the here and now. Ah, well. Don't mind me. I'm just being a little maudlin. This specific kind of instrumental is one that hits my nervous system in exactly the wrong way. It's a song for clubbing and flashing lights in a dark room while you're jumping and dancing to the music. I'm not going to be able to listen to this song too much while I write this, but I'll do it as long as I can for the review. There are some interesting video game sound effects and beeps to it, which did catch my attention initially, but they are infrequent enough and the rest of the instrumental is aggres...

  I'm laughably behind, so you're getting the succinct version. Triple Crown! Whoo! The performance for aespa is from Music Bank . All links go to my reviews, as per usual. Show Champion: N/A MCountdown: aespa "LEMONADE" Music Bank: BOYNEXTDOOR "VIRAL" Show! Music Core:  N/A Inkigayo: ILLIT "It's Me" ASC Performance: N/A The Show: N/A The Extra Stage: RIIZE "Do your dance"

 Next up from the Roulette Wheel that I made of songs I could theoretically cover this month, we have a Produce 101 S2 era project group. I'm not going to turn this into a NU'EST adjacent post, so insert the applicable connections as though I've already said them. Now, that being said, one of my favorite things that happens post-survival shows, especially the big ones that are backed by the major broadcasting companies, is the number of smaller project groups that pop up made up of former participants. They don't usually last much longer than the debuting group from the show, but they're usually a very interesting composition of the trainees. AB6IX could be considered such a group, for instance.  RAINZ debuted in October of 2017 and disbanded in October of 2018 as a seven-member group, all of whom have debuted as soloists since then and two of which debuted in other groups later. The majority of the members of RAINZ were between ranks 31 and 62 when they were elimin...

Release date: 2026 July 13 Album tracklist: Twenty, Kids Return , Run It Up, Lovestruck, Trainspotting , It's Not Over, Boys Gonna Dive Album runtime: 18 minutes  Okay, the next subunit for this group has debuted, but because the groups current overall maknae is currently fifteen (debuted at fifteen, turns sixteen next month as of writing this), I will have to check every subunit until he turns eighteen in 2028. The maknae of this particular subunit is seventeen, turning eighteen in a few months. He's also the leader and while I'll accept the maknae debuting at seventeen, I did have to check for the second thing that would qualify a group, or in this case a subunit, for Underage Protocol, which is the number of underage members. There are only two in total of the five, which is within acceptable limits percentage wise, and they both turn eighteen before Joshua and V turn thirty-one. And, best part, is that even though there are some short songs lurking amongst the b-sides, ...

Release date: 2026 June 30 Album tracklist:  Perfect Target , Still Cute? Album runtime: 5 minutes  Two-and-a-half minutes. Less than, actually. I know you can't hear it but I just sighed heavily over the runtime for the title track. The other song isn't much longer, so I'm not holding out hope for too much of a complicated ong. That being said, congrats on the win for this song! I.O.I members have been very busy the last few months, but that fits with the concept of the group. This is the same bright and saturated anime girl that makes Yena so popular, which is funny because one is from I.O.I and the other is from the younger sister group IZ*ONE. There's an alarm sound effect occasionally that I really like. Most of the song is filled with the slightly grungy guitar underneath the skittering beat and the very aggressively hyper anime girl going on here. I'm surprised and pleased that the song has something approaching a bridge, if not a bridge outright. She's g...

Release date: 2026 July 08 Album tracklist: On My Knees , Crime (2026 Remastered), Kart Racer (2026 Remastered) Album runtime: 9 minutes  I find it a little amusing and interesting that the last track on here is one I know I've already done when it was originally released. And you know what? I really hope that the maknae gets to work with ATEEZ like he wants. I'm manifesting that for him. Also, I didn't realize until I was typing this up that I didn't pay attention to the song or the single title. I thought it was "On My Way". That's a very different vibe for the song. I actually really like the guitar throughout this ong. This is actually a very fun instrumental. One part soft and affectionate, one part bright and energetic, and one part almost sultry (and before anyone rolls their eyes at my inability to do fractions, I said "one part", not "one half". Trust me, if I say "one half" and it ends up being more than one whole, ...