Just A Little Fangirl Love

 Happy anniversary, BIGBANG!! I am so late with this, but I was not going to skip this because it's the big 2-0 and I would have to make an entire other post to talk about why BIGBANG requires acknowledgement as one of the biggest playmakers in shaping what K-Pop became. I find it amusingly fitting that their company was founded by a member of the boy group generally acknowledged to be the first K-Pop group: SeoTaiji and Boys. Also, fun fact, I went to a cupsleeve event yesterday (as of writing this paragraph) for their anniversary and I really liked that they included TOP in the design, even if he was on one side and the three current members were on the other. Some related bookkeeping first though. There is a prison-striped elephant in the room with this group. If you are OT5 for this group, you may want to skip this post. If I acknowledge him, it will be with begrudging frustration and a curled lip, and only if I have no choice. I'd be lying if I said his immoral choices and...

 This was not the next one on my schedule, but in order to preserve my mini arc in the middle of August that I wanted, I'm going to have to find time later. Luckily, that post should be faster to do because there isn't a music video and I don't think it's been performed often by the group. It's still an event. To be clear. But this one is part of my little mini arc. I have an idea for a month where I do all songs that have the same title, but I haven't finalized when I'm going to do it or what song title to do. In the meantime, this is a lovely little taste to switch things up a little this month. DKB debuted in 2020 under Brave Entertainment as a nine-member group, though they're down to eight now. At the time this song was released, they were still nine. They haven't released anything in about a year, which is starting to get concerning, but Brave Entertainment is going to need money eventually since they've only got two active groups right now...

Release date: 2026 August 07 Album tracklist: 5 STARS; LA LA LA LUNE ; GET OUT; Lemonade; Wonder why; Medicine; At least, I tried; Forever young Album runtime: 28  minutes  Hi, everyone! I'm still here! If y'all remember his solo debut , y'all will remember that I am kind of head over heels with his voice. And I would be happy to shout to the heavens about his voice. Also, can we just be excited that he's got Wow on the album with him on one of the songs? I've got a soft spot for Wow because he's the one that laughed at me. But still! I love it when they have their groupmates on their solo stuff. And look at the runtime! I knew I liked him. This is not quite clubbing EDM music. It's very close to it with that beat style and the synthy grind that reminds me a bit of a metal key being dragged across a piano string, but the beat is just slow enough that it doesn't have the energy for clubbing. The use of silence is very well-done to help break up the song, ...

Release date: 2026 August 07 Album tracklist: RUN IT , THIS & THAT , After You, FARMING, I Do, Way Out, Back Then, This & That - (Festival Version) Album runtime: 25 minutes  Look at all the capital letters. I know that you all can't see my handwriting because you're reading it on a screen and not in the notebook I first wrote this review in, but yikes. Ooh, maybe that's what I'll do as part of the year-end wrap-up: I'll take some pictures of these reviews and post them. I have no idea if anyone will care, but I like behind the scenes stuff so maybe someone else will too. Anyway, happy birthday, Changbin! You're the big 2-7, so enjoy your twenties while they last! It's interesting that THIS & THAT and RUN IT are tied for streams right now. Also, I'd like to point out the run time. That's right. This is the first album I've reviewed in a while where not only is the title track over three minutes long, but so is the average runtime of t...

 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...