Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 June 04 Album tracklist: Like a Movie Album runtime: 3 minutes  Ah, vocal kings. They're the ballaf half of the 2:00 pair of groups along with 2PM, who we know I love in this house. I also love these guys even if I don't talk about them nearly as much.  I'm about to say something, and I don't know if it's going to be a comprehensible comparison, but this instrumental sounds like Scooby Doo Goes to Hollywood, which is not something that I thought I'd ever be saying about a K-Pop song. That saxophone follows the melody of the piano so well during its break, and while we do have a saxophone playing earlier, it doesn't quite take the center stage in the instrumental until that point where before it was simply part of about five other supporting instruments undeneath the vocals. And there's a very old school Hollywood vibe to this which I appreciate as well. There's a key change. I love key changes so, so much. They're so much fun t...

Release date: 2026 June 01 Album tracklist:  IF I , ZOOM ZOOM, NALLY-NA (HYUNHAYO), DANGER Album runtime: 11 minutes  YG doesn't have the best track record of keeping older groups around and active when they debut a new one. At least with the boy groups they don't actively describe the upcoming group as "the next [insert older group that they've disbanded here]" as they famously did with a pair of their girl groups. So when I heard the announcement about the new boy group debuting this year, y'all I was stressed for Treasure. I'm pleased that they dropped the mini album and I'm also pleased that I haven't heard rumors that they'll go the way of 2NE1, which is just silly considering how much most people love seeing the senior groups interacting with the kids, especially when they're at the same company. Exhibit A: 2PM and Stray Kids. (It would be super fun to have BIGBANG do stuff with Treasure while they're prepping for their tour. Danc...

Release date: 2026 May 27 Album tracklist: ECHO , BETTER DAYS, BOYS IN THE BAND, Call it love Album runtime: 11 minutes  The stress suddenly rose up in me over the title of that mini album, so I checked and the d-word is not imminent. I don't think. Thankfully. And then I realized that I'd only read part  of the album title and felt silly. And that, everyone, is the importance of reading everything and not just assuming. And you know what I'm going to say about the runtime. So I'm just going to point it out. I had to pause it after that intro and pray that the song would live up to the absolute drama of it. I was prepared to be disappointed, and I thought I was going to be, but then that simple beat turned weird and I knew. This is amazing and dramatic and there's so much going on that even my brain with its need for interesting and varied stimulation is completely satisfied by this. What in the Backstreet Boys is this? Even the amount of repetition of the word ...

    I had this one started over a year ago and then realized the bad timing, and decided to delay it a little bit because it would have been posted during Ramadan and would have been one of the most insensitive things I could have done due to the chanted bits of the Quran which have been removed (there was one concert in 2016 where the unedited version was the one used and CL apologized, corrected the mistake by ordering that all copies of the unedited version destroyed, and that's that) . Which is why it got sent to the pile for me to forget about. I remembered about it during Ramadan again this year, which frustrated me and made me laugh because I needed to remember it during literally any other month of the year. Which is why I'm doing it now so that I don't forget about it again. I did find a version of it online that apparently is the unedited version, but we're not going to use that one. In case you were unaware, CL is the leader of the recently reformed girl grou...

Release date: 2026 May 27 Album tracklist: OASIS Album runtime: 4 minutes  He also released an OST recently, but while I'm not positive about if that's an OST or not (if I can get caught up, I'll do it) but I know I didn't do this one. So, I'm going to rectify that. Obviously. Since you're reading this. = I really should dig into his discography a bit more to see how often rock shows up. This one has a pretty sick guitar solo there, near the end, and for most of the rest of the song, it almost has a little bit of a science fiction vibe to it. It's a little bit techno in spots, but in general, it's got an earnestness to it where it goesn't quite demand attention so much as stand in the center of the room and allow others to notice it. His voice however does not. The earnestness is strong in his voice, as his vibrato is and his vibrato is loud an din charge. There's also a softness here that I really appreciate. He's really got such a nice voic...

Release date: 2026 June 08 Album tracklist:  METRONOME ; R.I.P; INFINITY; ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS; LEAN ONE Album runtime: 14 minutes  I could be more disappointed by the runtime for this album, but the title track is nearly three minutes long, so I'll accept the others. Would I prefer the other songs to also be three minutes or longer? Yes, but the title track is the important one, and if I can only have one song be the right length, then I want it to be the title track. It's got kind of that underwater synth that I so enjoy underneath a trap beat. I think. I am mildly disappointed that we didn't get an actual metronome during the song because that would have been thematically appropriate. Really dropped the ball there, and I don't care how on the nose it would have been. The instrumental gets a bit cyberpunk grungy during the dance break, whose existence I also appreciate. It's got quite a bit that it's doing, which I enjoy. I'm not overly fond of how synthe...