Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 April 21 Album tracklist: POSE , What If I Miss Love? Album runtime: 6 minutes  Because I made the error, I'm going to separate the two B1A4 posts with this one that I also need to do. I also generally really like this group, y'all. I'm not as hyped about the runtime on this song, although the b-side has an acceptable length. As a side note, sometimes I think about how often I use adverbs when I write any of these and the general rule of thumb I was taught (and apparently ignore) was to use as few as possible. Yet, here I am. At least I'm using commas more.  This one has a pretty hip-hop feeling beat, but it's a very slow one. We don't have a ton of variation going on, which is fine, though there are some bars of rests in the instrumental, which I appreciate. This one doesn't really do it for me though, although given what I was doing for the majority of the day yesterday, I imagine this would be a really good cleaning song. It doesn't...

Release date: 2026 April 21 Album tracklist:  Rock Paper Scissors , CPR, Colors on me, 5959, The star Album runtime: 16 minutes  So I recently discovered the meaning behind this group's name, and it's the members' blood types. That reminds me of Dragon Pony, the band that is so named because they were born in either the Year of the Dragon or the Year of the Horse. Or 2NE1, because the average age of the members at debut was 21 years old. I love the weirdly literal names. And this is actually their first release under their own company after fourteen years at WM Entertainment. Ooh, this song makes excellent use of a stereo sound system. That's fantastic. The instrumental is just plinking all over the place and it keeps the song fairly unpredictable with actual physical movement instead of just relying on more static variations. That's satisfying. Generally, the entire this is pretty gentle, and ironically, a song that you could actually use for CPR, although it is on...

Release date: 2026 April 20 Album tracklist: REDRED Album runtime: 3 minutes  It's not many groups that I can't listen to because they have too many minors. Usually it's the fifteen- and fourteen-year-old maknaes that land a group on Underage Protocol. Unfortunately, Cortis is on the list because they have the same issue as my beloved NU'EST at debut, who are the reason why I added that stipulation. Taemin and Max Changmin prompted the under sixteen issue. NU'EST resulted in the >50% rule. Good news is that we have less than a year before I lift that and can stop worrying about it. Cortis's music so far has been kind of hit and miss for me, at least as far as the promoted songs go that I've reviewed, so I'm not sure which side is going to get this song or the title track when the mini album is released. We are still plagued by the HYBE refusal to have songs over three minutes, which will be in sharp relief since almost all of their groups are releasin...

 The actual proper name of this song is " 널 기다려", so if you're looking for it, that may be what you need to look for. Okay, now that that's out of the way, welcome, everyone! This one came to you from from the big Roulette Wheel I made (which, if you're looking for it, the link is in the Junk Drawer page). This is one of the songs on there that I've never heard before, and, if I'm being honest, there are only two songs that I know I've heard by them because one is in my big The Jams playlist: Hug U . The other one was shared as the extra stage from The Show . So, I'm kind of excited about this because I know that this group gets recommended to me often from the various algorithms. If you're also unfamiliar, we get to explore them together! So, DIA debuted in 2015 as a seven member group, but they've had a few different lineups over the years. For this album, the line-up was Eunice, Cathy (now Huihyeon), Jenny, Yebin, Eunjin, Chaeyeon, and C...

Release date: 2026 April 20 Album tracklist: 2.0 (TWO POINT O), Ode to Love , Sticky, Feel The Beat, Crush, Street (2AM), Glow Up, Everglow, Don't Say You Love Me, Voyage Album runtime: 30 minutes  Congrats on the first full album! Title track over three minutes? Check! Average runtime over three minutes? Check! Maknae who is eighteen? Check! I am a happy fangirl for this moment.  This is a pretty mild instrumental, more so than I was expecting. We've got the skittering beat that usually promises high danceability, but combined with the relatively low BPM (I've only just now realized that what I consider a low BPM is actually pretty fast because this feels like it's in the low 130s, so ignore me on that point), it allows the song to to translate its softness to lightness. We don't have any big bursts of drama with the instrumental, though we do have a softening dip that allows there to be a good contrast of energy with the song at equilibrium. It's nice. This wi...

Release date: 2026 April 21 Album tracklist:  UNCHILD , ENERGY Album runtime: 4 minutes  Well, everyone, we've come to the age of two-minute tracks. Literally. And the title track is better, but still under two-and-a-half minutes. I will say that the group has a pretty cool logo. I'll give them that. But with a freshly debuted group, I have to check. I'm holding out no hope. I have been pleasantly surprised. There are three members (including the maknae) who are seventeen and of those, two are turning eighteen in a few months. Because of that and because the maknae will turn eighteen before their first year is up, I'm not going to put them on Underage Protocol, tentatively. I reserve the right to put them back on if I find out the company is abusive and garbage in the next year. So despite the runtime that makes me frustrated, I hope I like them. Two things are going to be simultaneously true about this song. I really like the instrumental. The song makes the most for t...