Just A Little Fangirl Love

  Wooo! We got a first win for a song this week! Congrats! I did have to use some older (comparatively because they didn't actually perform it this week I don't think) stages for Hearts2Hearts, but the P1Harmony stages are from this week. Again, wooooooo! Yes! For the extras and the re-runs, we have ep. 59 from After School Club , featuring the boy group Boys Republic from 2014! I know I've got a soft spot for leaders because they're always who my bias ends up being, but how he introduced himself won me over a lot faster than I expected. Also, some of them are much better at girl group dances than others, and it was adorable (which is why you get to see it separately, in case you didn't want to see the whole episode, though you should). For the The Show re-run, I went with ASTRO because I love that song and I love that particular performance. And lastly, for the extra stage that was performed this week, I went with H1-KEY on Show Champion . As always, the links in ...

Release date: 2026 March 23 Album tracklist: Ice Cream , B-Boy, Blue Maze, Hyper Dream Album runtime: 11 minutes  ITZY's maknae has debuted as a soloist! I mean, I really like ITZY (I'm trying not to love them too much because girl groups I really like go on hiatus or disband, so it's safest if I only like the already disbanded ones) so I'm very excited about this one, but I have a feeling that this is going to be more second-gen, which I'm desperately hoping for as well. Anyway, congrats again, Yuna! You share a name with the main character from my favorite video game! The horns in this instrumental give me instant joy, especially at the beginning. There are so many fun instruments throughout the instrumental though, that when the song gets soft and dreamy during the chorus, it doesn't feel like a deflate. I like that instrumentals are getting a little weird again, but I don't think we've gone fully with that as the dominant trend, so her doing this wit...

Release date: 2026 March 23 Album tracklist: Good Girls (Louis), Boo Thang (Woojin), Summer Eyes (Ohyul), For Us (Ryul), Vanilla Days Album runtime: 14 minutes  Ooh, I was not aware that they were dropping a mini album (single?). I don't love the group yet, but I'm still curious and I did like their debut song a bit. So I'm still hoping for a song that will make me absolutely fall in love. Will it be this one? I have no idea. I can't listen to the group yet either, because they're under Underage Protocol, but I'm happy to hold onto groups and wait for them if they fully catch my attention. Time passes whether I want it to or not. This does make sense why I suddenly started getting clips from them though. I found out that Jay Park is about as hard on pronunciation as JYPark is, which makes sense having heard from both g.o.d members and 2PM members how relentless the JYPE founder is on pronunciation. You know, the song starts off smooth and a little sultry, and th...

Release date: 2026 March 23 Album tracklist: Friends to Lovers Album runtime: 3 minutes  Wow, I was so not expecting this. We love B.D.U here in this blog and their releases have been quite thin in terms of both frequency and quantity. So I'm delighted to be seeing this one. It also means that going through the horror of a survival show wasn't entirely wasted if they're still releasing music ( Build Up gave me some of my absolute favorite covers, in case anyone cares). And the song itself is close enough to three minutes that I'm okay with it.  We've got a fun and lovely instrumental, a little bit funky, a little bit bright, and just generally a supportive base for their vocals. I'm a big fan of the guitar specifically because it does a great job of popping in precisely when the song needs a bit of depth. It gets its own little solo support section, which is nice to hear. It's just a cute little burst of energy.  I'm so amused that the group specificall...

 Happy anniversary, BTOB! I'm doubly excited about this because it's the first time we get all six of you since you left Cube. Not going to lie. Y'all scared me a little because I specifically picked y'all to be my emotional support group with one of the criteria being that my emotional support group was unlikely to be disbanded any time soon. And then after a couple of days of panicking, I was reminded to trust Eunkwang because the members do, and I try to follow the lead of the group where I am able to. Which is why I'm not going to pretend Ilhoon was not there for this song. I almost cried when he said he was BTOB's Ilhoon and that he spent Peniel's birthday with him last week. He's not supposed to do that, and the rest of them aren't supposed to mention him at all, let alone hang out with him. So, he gets to stay with the group here. I'd be inclined to leave him in the group anyway, but it's nice how things are currently going right now....

Release date: 2026 March 11 Album tracklist: Who do you love?, Broken Doll , I Need You Album runtime: 9 minutes  I'm surprised but also delighted by the number of streams this music video has gotten so far. Good for them. This is one of those smaller groups that I've been keeping an eye on since they debuted.  We have a key change. It doesn't matter what else is going on in this song, and there are some interesting things happening, but key changes are annoyingly elusive and I love them. I don't put them on the list of things I look for because that's just the ultimate bonus. But we also get audience participation clapping and an a cappella section, so there's actually a pretty decent range in what we're actually listening to. A lot of the instrumental is taken up by the drums and the guitar, and I'm okay with that, although that opening chord reminds me of a Doctor Who fan song that I love listening to. Like I said, we've got a key change. I'm ...