Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 April 27 Album tracklist: Dancing Anyway, Glow , Light the Fire, Wishlist, Lovin' on Me Album runtime: 15 minutes  I avoided doing his debut song because I'm still upset that SM treated him like this and it set a dangerous precedent. However, and to be clear I am still very upset about it, at some point no matter how unfair something is, you either have to step away entirely or accept it. And my being upset with SM and avoiding his solo work is not fair to him because he has worked too hard for this. So. RIIZE is getting moved off of Underage Protocol, and I'll starting doing his songs. This has been sitting on me for a few months, probably since January or February, because I don't enjoy being this angry, but it's been long enough that my avoidance won't do anything. So, it's good to see you, Seunghan. Let's see what you've got for me. This is such an SM sounding song. I can practically smell the SHINee coming off the instrumental...

Release date: 2026 April 27 Album tracklist:  ROLL THE DICE Album runtime: 3 minutes  You know, it makes sense why we got a Chan and my boy Versachoi for Yaochen. He's been at JYPE for ages and was a trainee alongside Chan. So let's get right to it, shall we? (And it's right at three minutes, so I'm already pleased.) I like that we're getting to see 3Racha and co. branch out more with who gets their songs. That does mean though that the 3Racha (and each member of 3Racha separately) sound is being isolated against the Stray Kids sound. But if you want some more "noise music", this is where you should go to. This has some fantastic clanging and street sounds to it along with some science fiction warbling and whatnot. It's a bit more than I want, particularly because there isn't a strong shift in texture of the instrumental, but that's fine that it's not for me.  Vocally, this sounds a bit like a combination between Do It and Adrenaline by A...

  The BigHit domination continues, with the one to follow BTS being their very own little brothers. It feels a bit like they were passing on the torch, which makes me smile. There was also a Grand Slam (still have not looked that up and no one is correcting me so we're assuming that I'm correct) this week, so congrats! Surprise! We got three extra stages this time: two from Show Champion and one from Show! Music Core . Obviously because TXT won, I had to add on an ALL'N performance (please refer to last week's wins if you're unfamiliar with their adorable meet-cute in the elevator). And interestingly, that performance has a surprisingly high number of views for a freshly debuted soloist not in a decently sized company or from a group, more so than some of the other stages I shared. The other two extras I shared, because I can share what I want, were Donghae and Be Boys. (Just to make it obvious what I'm doing in case you're new here and missed the irritati...

Release date: 2026 April 24 Album tracklist: Celebration Album runtime: 2 minutes  I've already heard some mixed reactions for this song, but I tried not to pay too much attention to it because I knew I was going to be doing this and I didn't want the strong opinions to influence whatever conclusion I come to. I do already like the group and am hoping that I like their new album, but I also recognize that I may not, and that's fine. What I'm already not  happy about is the two-and-a-half minute runtime, but that's what I'm coming to expect from HYBE groups because of HYBE's obsession with short songs. They need to back off and let songs have lengths again. The plinking water notes are actually pretty repetitious through that first part, although thankfully, they pause and give us a break from that before coming baleck. It's kind of a weird combination of sounds with this track, because we've got the plinking water notes, and then we've got the sc...

Release date: 2026 April 02 Album tracklist:  appear Album runtime: 3 minutes  Here is the sequence of events for why I'm covering this song now instead of one of the more recent releases that I need to get to. Changsub (former CUBE artist) dropped a single last week that I just covered. Then, because I did that one, Hui's (also former CUBE artist) popped up as one I should listen to on YouTube. So I started that review. In the middle of it, I decided to look up the writing credits to make sure I was correct about Hui being the writer for his song. Well, I noticed that it was mixed and edited at Cube Studio, so I looked them up because that felt a bit odd, and yes, they do seem to be connected to CUBE. So I commented about the oddity to my Stay friend, who asked who was left at Cube. I started listing artists (Shinwon from Pentagon, i-dle, LIGHTSUM, NOWZ, CLC technically and or possibly). She said "I forgot about LIGHTSUM." And then I panicked a little bit because wha...

Release date: 2026 April 27 Album tracklist:  Dear Tomorrow Album runtime: 3 minutes I was about to type that it seems like the former CUBE soloists were just trying to take me out with the soft feels and then the song kicked up its heels and got a bit spunky with the instrumental. We've still got all the instruments I like: piano, violin, and guitar. Plus, we've got the staple triumvirate of the piano, guitar, and drums. I love this, actually. I genuinely do. It's fun, it's bright, it's got that brief soften to let you catch your breath before it drags you laughing back into the chaos of the song. I love his voice so much. I don't know what's in CUBE's water but whatever they do to their artists produces some incredible voices. I'm also half in love with his vibrato because he's got a vibrato like a first or second gen idol, falsetto or chest voice or anywhere in between, which this song has all of. If you want a pretty good introduction to his ...