Just A Little Fangirl Love

  I think the term for when a song gets a full set of wins is a "Grand Slam", which has a different meaning as a tennis player but is no less impressive. Oh, a song got one of those this week. Whoo! Congrats! Because of that and the lack of music show performances for that song, I decided to add another extra performance. It doesn't make up for the five, but if things go as I expect them to, next week should be the last one where I have minimal performances to show y'all. So, for the After School Club re-run, I went with RAINBOW in Ep. 201 back in 2016. They were actually one of the first groups to be on After School Club at all! Not this episode. Although because of which channel this came from, you get the whole episode embedded here! For The Show , I went with a pretty recent one from last year for 8TURN. Then for the two extra stages, I went with Kangmin on MCountdown and Baby DONT Cry on Show! Music Core . The links in the spreadsheet, as always, go to my revie...

Release date: 2026 April 06 Album track list:  Who is she , Don't mind me Album runtime: 5 mi nutes  Have they apologized yet? I did hear that this year's birthday was a lot less problematic, so there is that. If they continue to not have any more issues, while I'd like an apology, I'll trust a change of behavior more.  Also, I'm deeply, deeply disappointed by the fact that this single does have a three minute song that is not the title track, and the title track is in fact closer to two-and-a-half minutes. I hope this is at least a good song.  The clangy parts of the instrumental are an interesting choice against their vocals. There are some spots that match much better, but then the chorus is a really good balance between the two. It's too short to really gain a lot of traction, but what's there? So much potential. The bones of this song are so good that I'm deeply annoyed by this runtime rather than my previous disappointed irritation.  There's a ...

Release date: 2026 April 05 Album track list: Heroine Album runtime: 4 mi nutes  Well, we had the rap line drop a song (which I apparently didn't review and I could have sworn I did but whatever, I'll add it to the list). And now the vocal line has dropped a song. That means that we should look forward to the dance line dropping a song here in the next little bit. But y'all are about to be blessed with their vocals. I mean, the rap line trio has a set of beautiful voices, even if they never use them. But think about how much better the vocal line will sound. This is also apparently a cover of a Japanese song, but I have no idea what the original sounds like.  Y'all, I could not be happier about the fact that there is a violin in this instrumental. There's also an organ, which I'm just delighted by. I'm very much liking this instrumental, everyone, and I may need to go check out the original. There's a bright wistfulness to this that I really and specific...

Release date: 2026 April 03 Album track list: heal , growing pains , baby blue , this!, before you met me, glass half empty, main attraction, enemies with benefits, on our way, sorry to myself Album runtime: 30 mi nutes  There isn't a capital letter to be seen in those song titles. That is fascinating. Congrats on the new English album, Monsta X! I guess I need to go back and mark some of those songs as pre-releases. This instrumental is so soft. Oh, my goodness. It hits that perfect sweet spot that I remember pop music being like when I was in high school from certain artists of softness and rapturous energy. Can I remember any of them? Not right now, but I'm coming down with a gnarly cold right now. It's however deeply fitting for the fact that I spent the weekend with eight hours of church and I could swear I can hear an organ in spots. It could just be the choir in the background, but I feel strongly enough that there is an organ, or an organ-like instrument there that ...

 I was originally planning to do something out of my 1300+ song playlist for this one, so I popped into my Junk Drawer playlist (AKA the playlist that has a lot of interesting things in it, but that I'm not quite sure where to put yet and most of which I haven't listened to) to reset that playlist. This was the song that played. I thought to myself "Huh. That would be an interesting choice next anyway, because I don't think I've heard it yet. I mostly know of this group because of Dino of Seventeen's love for them." And then I shrugged and followed my original plan. Hilariously, it gave me a Baekho song, but I can't do that one in April because it doesn't turn two until May. So then I said "Well, let's see what the Roulette Wheel I made can give me." That song was also a 2024 song by a group called APEX (I thought I'd misspelled EPEX in the Roulette master list; I did not and will be coming back to this group later) and another on...

Release date: 2026 April 03 Album track list: SELF CRUCIFIXION; THE GIANT; Studio54; A SMALL, FILTHY SHOW WINDOW; ZERO-COKE; Another Dimension Holy Dude!!!!!!!!; SEOUL CHAOS; DESPERADO ; FOR FANS; STENDHAL SYNDROME; BE SOLID Album runtime: 37 mi nutes  There isn't a single song on here that is under three minutes. I love him. He can stay attached to the group. The other one who is no longer in the group, if he ever decides to make music again, will not, because I continue to follow the leader's cues, much like I do with BTOB. And G-Dragon seems to be deliberate in his actions. So, welcome back, T.O.P. I'm very happy to be here to review this song, even though we all know I am not the biggest fan of rap. This is a very slow, weighty instrumental with a western guitar going on (and by that I mean country western specifically). We've also going some coin sound effects but largely this is such an unhurried instrumental that even though we do later get some higher, faster be...