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Song Review:: itsnotover (isn't): itsnotover- Kids Room

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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, ...
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Choi Yoojung (I.O.I/Weki Meki): Perfect Target- Perfect Target

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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...
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Song Review:: TRENDZ: On My Knees- On My Knees

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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, ...
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Song Review:: HEART OF WOMAN: Heart Byte : LEGACY- ($.$)

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Release date: 2026 May 28 Album tracklist: ALIVE, SHOW H.O.W, Told U So, TEA, My Vision, Skit.exe, Lost in Proof , ($.$) , Close To Me , One Beat, Dive With Me Album runtime: 28 minutes  This one is almost long enough for me to be fine with the song length. However, as you may remember from the review I did  on their debut song, I noted how much I liked this one. I did that because at the time, I wasn't sure if this was a debuting group that would only be promoting their debut and title track, or if they'd be promoting multiple of the songs (which i the better strategy in my opinion, if the company can afford it, because then you've got more opportunities for people to encounter them and more opportunities for a spark to light the possible fire), and since the group is not on Underage Protocol, I took a listen to perhaps convince someone else to give another song a chance by describing the songs in short. And, also, because I'm really excited every time a group debuts a...
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Battle of the B-Sides:: Teen Top: Tell me why

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 I've got a doc that I've been adding songs to and removing from for the last couple of weeks of potential songs to cover for the rest of July. Before I tossed that list into a roulette wheel, I took a look at some of the groups I've got in my To Do playlist and added a couple more b-sides for groups in there that I hadn't covered yet. This song was actually one of them, so Teen Top apparently wanted to be covered, and they wanted to be covered now. Which is fine, you know?  Teen Top debuted as a six-member group under TOP Media (which was founded by two members of my second favorite first gen group and also has my kids ODD YOUTH) in 2010 when the maknae was fourteen. I expect better of idols-turned-CEOs. I really do. But apparently the reason why Teen Top wanted to be covered right now is because their sixteenth anniversary is right now, so happy birthday, Teen Top! Their former leader left the group because he didn't feel like he fit the idol standards (I'll f...
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Song Review:: BOYFRIEND: BOYAGER 6- Starlit Voices

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Release date: 2026 May 26 Album tracklist:  Starlit Voices , Step, Deja Vu, Too Late, Time Limit - Korean ver., Starlit Voices - inst. Album runtime: 21 minutes  This post has been sitting in my drafts basically since it was released. The fact that they get to use their name again? Their fifteenth anniversary this year? The twins that are besties with Sungjae from BTOB? The concepts this group had? I'm happy about all of this. I'm glad they're still together and making music, and even happier that they got their name back. You know what I'm going to say, right? There's a violin, and that violin is front and center in the instrumental. There's a softness to the instrumental that is supported by how sweeping and cinematic it is. The Cinderella vibes are strong with this instrumental, very fairytale, very pretty. There are several spots where the instrumental follows the vocals, or the vocals follow the instrumental, rather than the two parts doing their own thing...
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Battle of the B-Sides:: G-Dragon (BIGBANG): A Boy

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 Back when I was trying to fully plan out July, foolish creature that I am, I wanted a big name to help balance out what was, at the time, a lot of smaller groups and artists. And, love them or hate them, BIGBANG is one of the biggest names you can do in the world of K-Pop, and they have been for at least fifteen years. But I didn't want to do one of the group songs yet because my instinct tells me that if I'm going to do a BIGBANG song, that's going to be an event. So I planned an event that will be coming up somewhat soon. I also recognize that of the Big 3, SM is definitely overrepresented and I hadn't done anything YG yet (you may remember that I did CL last month, but I decided on her after I'd decided on BIGBANG for the YG representation) (interestingly, I technically had done something YG related much, much earlier, because YG the Dude was part of Seotaiji and Boys, and I have covered a Seotaiji song ). Instead, I asked my friend who has been listening to K-P...
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