Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 November 02 Album track list: WE UP, Call My Name , heavy Album runtime: 8 mi nutes  Considering TUIDE is practically under Pledis, I have to consider whether they're Pledis enough to count them as a younger sister group to TWS. Because if they are, TWS are no longer the kids, especially since TWS are all fully adults now (happy birthday, Kyungmin, by the way and almost happy birthday, Shinyu). Food for thought. I'll have to chew on that. Anyway, I'm excited to see what they pull out for their second single. And HYBE is continuing to have all of their groups have painful short title tracks. What is this? As another note, I am so soft over the sentimentality of the single's title being pronounced the same as the group's name.  I find it wildly hilarious that my three favorite fifth gen boy groups have such complete opposite vibes from each other. This has a beautiful piano running the length of the song, so even with what could just be a standard t...

Release date: 2026 November 02 Album track list: DIENAMITE , Go, Mask off, One, DUMB, Sanctuary Album runtime: 18 mi nutes  I always find it mildly amusing how many of their songs and albums are in full caps while their group name has none. Anyway, my favorite fifth gen group is coming to us with another mini album, this one in Halloween colors for the album artwork, and I'm hoping desperately we get another Witch situation where I just adore the entire album beyond any words. Y'all remember Witch , right? How I never shut up about it? Fingers crossed. Stunning. This is wonderful. It's like the rock version of a haunted carnival in this instrumental. Mental note to include it in next year's Halloween post. This is dark and heavy and grindy in the best way, and then just when it starts to be a little bit too much, it just stops, not for long, but long enough to let it have a moment to rest a touch before launching forward again. And then when the electric guitar starts ...

Release date: 2026 August 19 Album tracklist: 3!4! Album runtime: 4 minutes  I see this particular song title and I immediately think of the song of the same title by Roo'Ra. That's probably just a me thing though because that song is almost as old as I am, exactly the same age as Hoshi from Seventeen, and certainly much older than every member in this group, which is on Underage Protocol until next year, unfortunately.  Okay, this is slow. Okay. Scratch that. This is the single most first gen sound to come out of K-Pop in recent days. It sounds so first gen that after I'm done with this song, I'm going to go see if it's a remake and if not, who the writers are because at minimum, whoever wrote this has been around for a long time and wrote for first gen artists. I'm a little annoyed by how first gen it sounds, not because it sounds first gen and I don't like it because I obviously do, but because that's all I can think about. There's a saxophone, wh...

Release date: 2026 September 23 Album tracklist: Moonlight Album runtime: 3 minutes  After the recent influx of AI slop on their Spotify profile, when I actually took a video of the over thirty songs that has dropped over a single weekend, I was initially deeply suspicious when a new release crossed my profile. Imagine my surprise when I look and the runtime is three minutes, but I don't trust yet, so I check the copyright holder. Not only is it in Korean, which none of the others were, but it's also the name of their company! A third check on YouTube confirms: this one is legit and the group's first release in almost two years! That whistling is aggravatingly familiar. I know I've heard something similar. Whatever. Anyway. There's not a lot of particular vibrancy to the instrumental and that aggravates me because of how strong their earlier songs were. The good news is that this instrumental as a whole almost allows for the illusion of a cappella because this is st...

Release date: 2026 October 28 Album tracklist: Day &N ight Album runtime: 2 minutes  This song is woefully, painfully, criminally short, so short that I had to triple check to verify that this was an actual release and not AI garbage and lies. But even though my list of even just the October releases I need to do is long and distinguished, of course I'm going to do the leader of Cross Gene's song, considering I just did a post of theirs for the Expanded Offering. I'm hoping that this is a wonderful addition to the month of spookening because of the album artwork. Well. This was not what I was expecting. We've got a trap beat underneath a generally upbeat instrumental that's also generally weighted down but has a slightly sparkly quality go it. It's good short to have much momentum or change go the song, which is a little bit of a disappointment because of how much I love Fill Me . He actually pulls out a falsetto a couple of times in this song, which helps t...

 This is going to be an eclectic mix of songs this month. I asked my best friend from middle school to give me a song for this month back in May, I think, and she finally decided on a song in October. This isn't that one. I just want y'all to know that you're going to be getting a lot of songs I just feel like doing and after October, I'm launching y'all into November with a song I love so much. Every time I see either god or IU's names I start singing the beginning of this song. It's fully a vocal stim for me, but it's one of my favorite openings to a song, K-Pop or otherwise. Normally, I'd say something like "I'm pretty sure most of y'all have never heard of them" except god has popped up twice in my monthly recaps for songs I was listening to a lot of that month and they were at KCon LA 2024. Oh, and by the way, you pronounce the group's name as "G-O-D," but you'll learn that from this song.  god debuted in 1999...