Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 May 04 Album tracklist: MOON , CHOOM , I LIKE IT , LOCKED IN Album runtime: 12 minutes  Last one of their b-sides to get a music video, I think. While I still can't technically listen to them because of the whole "they had a fourteen-year-old at debut" thing, this has been very handing in letting me hear basically the whole album, and let me tell you, there have been some of these I added to y playlist of song I can't listen to yet because the group is on Underage Protocol. Fingers crossed that this is another one. Oh, and also, as of the time of writing this, this was #92 globally on YouTube music. Oh, this is a slow and grindy instrumental. Even when more elements get added at the end, it still has a very heavy quality to it, and it never really gets more energetic. But the progression from the sparse opening to the not-overpopulated ending moves at a good pace and it's a logical progression as well. There aren't many big surprises here, w...

Release date: 2026 August 28 Album tracklist: FALLEN ANGEL , HEAVEN, Less than a Lover Album runtime: 9  minutes  Congrats on the wins! I forgot I needed to do this one! I think this is a pre-release, which is why I'm labelling it like I am.  One of my big complaints about a lot of songs lately is that the instrumental isn't particularly distinct, because so many of them, including this one, are largely two or three beats layered together through most of the song with very little variation. This one at least has the benefit of water plunks and plops, and I cannot express how briefly excited I was about twenty seconds from the end, but it just wasn't enough to overcompensate for the repetition. Now, I'll be the first to admit that R&B doesn't really do it for me normally because a lot of the modern R&B does an excellent job of having the kind of sound that lulls me a bit too much into drowsiness. This song is no different. Between the slow beat and the amount...

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...