Just A Little Fangirl Love

 I'm one song behind in my plan, which is a little frustrating. But I may be able to make it up. Also, quiet shout-out to whoever is reading this little blog from Seychelles. That country popped up in my statistics recently and I've got a huge fondness for them because during eighth grade, that was the country my friend had to do her report on (it was a massive project ranging from planning a vacation in the foreign language class to talking about an issue the country has in English class to writing a paper on the history of the country in history class). So, hello! Welcome! You have a beautiful country and I'd love to visit one day. What does this have to do with this song? Well, just like a country doesn't need to have a lot of landmass or a population that's in the top ten biggest in the world to have an impact on someone, a song does not need to be a title to have an impact. This song just happened to start off life as a b-side and then become the debut track fo...

Release date: 2026 July 27 Album tracklist: .exe , LOCKED IN, W.T.F(un), LIFE IN COLOR Album runtime: 10 minutes  Congrats on the wins! While this song is of a suitable length, the runtime as a whole ain't it. That averages out to about two-and-a-half minutes, and that's with one almost three. It's so nice to have a younger group that isn't on Underage Protocol because then I get to really listen to the songs. This instrumental feels like a boss fight in Nier: Automata , especially in the chorus, although there are spots where both the number and intensity of the instruments drops a bit, providing a great contrast. I love how the song doesn't start with the instrumental, because that means we get a tiny bit of a cappella. There's very little actual softness to the song though, but even in the quieter moments, there's almost a metallic quality to it.  The line "I'm an .exe" makes me snort every time I hear it because my brain goes "Executab...

Release date: 2024 August 27 Album tracklist: Lucky you, LOVE ATTACK , New World, Pinball Album runtime: 11 minutes  I saw this song got a win almost two years after it was released, and my eyebrows went up to my hairline. That sort of thing does happen (looking at you, Woodz ), but it happens rarely enough that it's startling every time. And then I remembered I'd never reviewed this and cursed Past Fangirl for not being on top of things. Major congratulations, though! I'm delighted that y'all gave me more work. This makes me happy. And they're very close to coming off Underage Protocol. Just a few more months. I'm kind of hating myself for failing to cover this when it was released. It's fine though. Because I'm reviewing this song now, I'm going to add it to this year's playlist for the new releases I like the best. The beat is solid without overwhelming the entire song and allowing the vocals to have something to push against o that it doesn...

Release date: 2026 August 03 Album tracklist: ZZAN, Party Rock Rock (prod. Hitchhiker) , Sincerely (prod. Lee Hyun Do of DEUX) , Micheo Micheo , Love Sick (narr. Lee Moon Sae) , For JEONG and LOVE, LIKE IT Album runtime: 20 minutes  The day has finally arrived, everyone, and I am late. So late, in fact, that I forgot there was another song that was a pre-release. But, he has officially debuted. Also, I'm super excited to see him on Zip Daesung, because that's two maknaes who stepped away from their groups by doing trot as their solo debut. I'm also laughing that one of the tracks is both Picheolin and Dino. The piano does such a great fake out for the song. Gorgeous iano and then it's just all trot. If I had to describe this song, which I absolutely do since I'm here, that is like Italian disco, but villa Italian disco, not city. It's surprisingly rural feeling, obviously something I relate to. This is high energy with a strong dance beat, but the kind of dance ...

  The Show is back again this week, everyone, which means a full set of wins, one of which was a huge surprise and required me to review a song I missed back in 2024! And I'm almost caught up so you can get the commentary again soon! As always, links in the chart go to my reviews. Show Champion: idntt "Kids Return" MCountdown: ATEEZ "BAD" Music Bank: idntt "Kids Return" Show! Music Core: RESCENE "Pretty Girl" Inkigayo: RESCENE "LOVE ATTACK" ASC Performance: N/A The Show: idntt "Kids Return" The Extra Stage: 8TURN "Stagefright"

 We just had a whole lot of b-sides for July, but a bunch of those were buried tracks. This one, this one is iconic, so iconic, in fact, that when I was thinking about what songs to do for August, that was when I found out that this and another one that I'm planning are both b-sides. I genuinely thought it was a title track. These two songs are also songs that you regularly see pop up in the K-Pop compilation videos that get posted on YouTube, so if you're like me and watch those regularly but also haven't actually heard this song yet, here's your chance to find out why it's in all of those videos delivered to you on a silver platter. I've done all the groundwork for you here. The other kind of funny thing is that both songs I was considering started off life as a b-side and then became a Japanese debut for the group. What's the other song I'm talking about? You'll find out. You can blame the order of these posts on my EXO-L friend (and now Baby Stay...