Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 April 15 Album tracklist:  SLAM DUNK , SLAM DUNK (inst) Album runtime: 6 minutes  I'd like to see them drop more music or more regularly release singles. They need the attention. And not just because I'm loud and vocal in my support for my boy, Hakseong, the first North Korean idol to debut. They've got a lot going for them. (I'm also writing this after the JUSTB concert and my flabbers are gasted. I'm going to need 3-5 business days to recover from what happened for my friend and me; trust me, it was a very good thing (on an unrelated note, I feel so bad for them because they were having the worst sound issues and Bain promised to come back to do a better concert)). This is a very odd instrumental. I don't think I'm the target audience for this song, at least not in this stage of the listen, but that could change with the vocals. There's audience participation snapping in some spots, and a lot of record squeaking. Seriously. So much r...

Release date: 2026 April 14 Album tracklist: LOVE IS PAIN Album runtime: 3 minutes  This guy looks a bit like Hyunsik from BTOB. Or, well, I suppose Hyunsik looks a bit like him given that I'm assuming Kangin is older. Also, given past events, he probably should just stop drinking. It doesn't look like that's been going so well for him, and he got kicked out of the group because of the poor decisions he's made while drinking. That being said, I did have to dig a little to figure out if this was his debut single or not. It looks like he may have released that back in 2016, a decade after his group debut. I am, however, a little amused that he releases music every ten years. Group debut in 2006. Solo debut (possibly) in 2016. New music in 2026. I love the almost gospel-sound to this instrumental. And I was sitting here on my first listen, just kind of absorbing the sound to figure out how to talk about it, and then I think we got a key change. It startled me out of the ab...

Release date: 2026 April 14 Album tracklist:  SSS , White Tee Album runtime: 7 minutes This is the group I have associated with bright green for some unknown reason but it turns out that bright green is one of their fandom colors. So that's appropriate. Ooh, we've got some audience participation snapping. Excellent. It's been a moment since the last time I got that in a new track. There's actually a really good blend of the instruments, where none of them quite manage to be the "main" instrument, if that makes sense. Because even while the drums are doing their necessary beat thing, we've got the guitar doing a lot of heavy lifting with melody, but that synthesizer is a constant presence. And! The drums aren't even the only percussion instrument we've got. We also get some a cappella, or near a cappella, and it all adds up to a solid instrumental. I've got vibrato and a belt, and that belt turns into a run at the end. We actually get vibrato in...

Release date: 2026 April 13 Album tracklist: Bed of Thorns, Stick With You , Take Me to Nirvana (feat.Vinida Weng), So What, 21st Century Romance, Dream of Mine Album runtime: 16 minutes  Am I seeing this correctly? Has TOMORROW X TOGETHER released a song that's over three minutes? I mean, there are also three that are 2:3X and one that's under two-and-a-half minutes. And the title track is not one of the longer two. So. But I am all for them getting to have longer songs again. I'd love to see HYBE lift whatever nonsensical ban they have on title tracks longer than three minutes. Even TXT's older brothers didn't manage to escape it last month. The first part of the song has very little variation to it, then we get a bit techno. And then it's back to business. I'm very much enjoying the fact that the song ends a cappella, thought I'm not sure if that's one of their voices with heavy post-production effects or autotune on it or if it's a synthesize...

Release date: 2026 April 13 Album tracklist: Feel Me , Feel Me - inst. Album runtime: 7 minutes  A follow-up single to Blue ? Yes, please. I'm still so in love with that song that it's a little concerning, but if my magnificent main vocalists are going to drop more music, well, then, I'm going to be here for it. I really like Seventeen. If you can't tell.  Most of the song is taken up by a skittering beat but there's enough movement around the skittering that it doesn't feel entirely rushed or oppressive. There's a spot about halfway through where the balance shifts, the beat's volume is decreased a bit, and then it gets turned back up. You can still hear it there, unlike the later spot where the skittering is removed. I like that they're not the exact same. The instrumental doesn't give me quite the rush I always am looking for, but depending on what's going on vocally, this could be a very solid support for the vocals. This is such a soft s...

Release date: 2026 April 13 Album tracklist: Blossom Parade, HMPH!, Born Savage , Lunar Hearts, Think I Am Album runtime: 16 minutes  I know it's been a hot minute since I last did one of their songs, but here we are. I have returned to them.  I love this guitar. There are fun little flourishes that keep the song from being too predictable or stable, which is fun to be hearing. I love what the instrumental is doing during the rapping though. It strips out and mimics the rapping, or the rapping mirrors the instrumental. Either way, it makes for a very distinctive matching sound, and I think it stands out well in the rest of the song. There's also a strong energy build at one point, which I like to see on principle. The car alarm sound effect at the beginning did startle me, but that's good! It's a good addition and a good signal for the start of the song in case you're listening on repeat. I'm loving the rock here, as we expect. And the rapping is in a really goo...