Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 April 27 Album tracklist: Mmchk , HYPEMAN, Mmchk (English Version) Album runtime: 8 minutes  Okay, this one is unlikely to feature buff men in dresses, but obviously the odds of that happening are not zero apparently. If it happens a third time, I'm going to ask for my nickels. I'm appalled by the run time though. I just noticed it partway through the review (because I haven't written the above information yet), and it's a two-and-a-half minute title track. We've got a very strong beat with this, but we also don't have a skittering beat. It's a little bit more hip-hop than I want to be listening to generally, but there's a lot more variation than I was expecting. That's two sentences in a row with the word "but". There's a fun acceleration at the midway point, but there's something that I want from the song, but is dissatisfying. Looking at the runtime, that might be what the issue is.  We do have the shouting thi...

Release date: 2026 April 27 Album tracklist: CEREMONY , BAD HABIT, BANI BANI, OUR VOYAGE, PIONEER Album runtime: 15 minutes  Ah, I now understand why I tried to call LE SSERAFIM's song "Ceremony" instead of "Celebration". Okay. Let's see if my rock girls give me something I love. If they don't, that's fine too. I'll accept that. Also, I just got some information about my hotel room for the concert I'm going to this weekend and I'm not stressed at all because when we called to tell them we're going to be late because our flight doesn't get it until late, the woman was like "Well, we don't really hold it that late, but check with the front desk." Y'all, we booked the room in January. We followed the instructions to contact you directly that we would be late. So, we'll see. Fingers crossed. This is a very upbeat and chipper instrumental, and I love that we can hear drumstick clicking. It's also got a lot of ...

Release date: 2026 Mar 11 Album tracklist: Catch Catch , Spring Fever (Feat. Din Din, Jung Hyung Don), Sticker (Feat. MRCH), April's Cat, Question Marks (Feat. Paul Kim) Album runtime: 17 minutes  She dropped something new, so I'm going to do this before I look at that one. This song has been glaring at me, because she's been collecting the second gen idols, including one of the members of After School, for this dance challenge. And I love that. I've also heard that this song is one of the most second gen coded songs to come out of a younger K-Pop artist in years, which is impressive because there are a few of the rookie girl groups that I'd argue embody the second gen vibe very well.  This is the level of EDM that I started out listening to K-Pop with. This is a relentless song with what sounds like the beeps you'd get from dialing on a wireless home phone. But it's the kind of relentless that doesn't rely on loudness or aggressiveness to be completely ...

Release date: 2026 April 29 Album tracklist: TIME'S UP, COOL , BYE BYE, DREAM PARADE, HALF TONIGHT, STAY GOLD Album runtime: 17 minutes  Well, this was not the one I was going to do next, but I got on YouTube to see if I could find someone had uploaded the entire "movie" for the video game Night Trap , and my algorithm decided to show me that this music video had dropped. And I obviously decided to do a quick search to see if this was an AI artist or not because I didn't recognize the name and the views were pretty low. Turns out, this is a late second gen group that lasted their seven years plus and then disbanded, except they didn't, and now they're back together post military. And then , I realized that I was in fact already aware of them because I did an ASC re-run featuring them on a music show wins post last year. Shows how much I pay attention. But, I do remember, now that I know that I saw it, that I liked them. So, is this in Japanese? Possibly. And ...

 And here we are with the last of the posts for the randomness of April. Over six thousand songs, and once again, the Roulette Wheel picks a song I love a lot. Every time it turns up in my playlist, I go "Wow, I love this song. Which one is this?" And then go "Why didn't I recognize it?" I'm almost positive that that particular problem will be fixed after I write this post, which would be nice. But right now, it feels like I'm discovering it every time I listen to it, and I love it each time. So, if this is your first time listening to this, that's my recommendation right up front. I love it so much I fall in love with it again each time I hear it. ASTRO debuted as a six-member group under Fantagio Entertainment in 2016, which means that their tenth anniversary was this year. Congrats to them! They're currently active as a four member group, though I could also see the arguments for a five or six member group, just depending on how you decide to ...

Release date: 2026 April 27 Album tracklist: Dancing Anyway, Glow , Light the Fire, Wishlist, Lovin' on Me Album runtime: 15 minutes  I avoided doing his debut song because I'm still upset that SM treated him like this and it set a dangerous precedent. However, and to be clear I am still very upset about it, at some point no matter how unfair something is, you either have to step away entirely or accept it. And my being upset with SM and avoiding his solo work is not fair to him because he has worked too hard for this. So. RIIZE is getting moved off of Underage Protocol, and I'll starting doing his songs. This has been sitting on me for a few months, probably since January or February, because I don't enjoy being this angry, but it's been long enough that my avoidance won't do anything. So, it's good to see you, Seunghan. Let's see what you've got for me. This is such an SM sounding song. I can practically smell the SHINee coming off the instrumental...