Just A Little Fangirl Love

 I waffled back an forth on what song I wanted to do here a lot. I thought I'd made a decision, and then I decided against it. Then I'd made another decision, and decided against it. Then, I went back to my original thought, and here we are. I have, like, three songs that I keep circling that I want to talk about, but that also means putting them in a spot where they support the songs to either side (in this case BTOB and Stray Kids) and also stand out well on their own. I feel for the people who decide the order to put songs in an album or for a setlist. It's not easy. And I know that the group recently-ish had a bit of negative attention, but if anything, that painted the company in a worse light than the group members, and this isn't the first time that a group under that company has had issues with mistreatment.  woo!ah! debuted as a six member group under NV Entertainment (now H Entertainment and also formerly SSQ Entertainment) in 2020. They are currently a five m...

Release date: 2026 March 25 Album tracklist: Love Comes Slowly , Fade Into Memories, You Think Too Much, Last of Us, Hurt & Hollow, By Your Side, Broken Way Album runtime: 21 minutes  I was very happy to be able to pull Dawon's photocard off my Enlistment Wall a couple of months ago, so I'm hoping that he was involved in this comeback. There are a couple of track names on this album that I'm definitely interested in, and so I'll be listening to the whole thing after I'm done with this. "So" is apparently my word for today. This song would be very easy to turn into an acoustic version. I mean, we are talking laughably easy. I haven't heard a song where I could hear the non-existent acoustic version this strongly. Anyway, there's actually a pretty big chunk of this song that has effects to make it sound like it's a 40s lacquer disc, particularly with the piano. I'm in love with the sound of this instrumental, by the way. It's wonderfu...

Release date: 2026 March 24 Album tracklist: Mama I'm Alright, Bittersweet , Shapeshifter, Moves Like Ciara, Tears On My Pillow Album runtime: 15 minutes  I apparently missed their debut last year. Oops. And since their album recently came out and I missed their pre-release, I'm going to do the pre-release and then the title track in fairly quick succession. And, in case anyone cares, the maknae turns 18 this year and was 16 at debut (December birthday). I'm going to give them a slight pass on the other qualifier for Underage Protocol (>50% of members eighteen at debut) only because the middle two debuted at seventeen, but turned eighteen fairly shortly after debut, and the eldest was over eighteen. I don't like it. But. Considering this is my first review of theirs, they were borderline to begin with, and they're all but the maknae at least eighteen as of this moment, I will give them that pass. The company better not make me regret it. The average runtime is a...

Release date: 2026 March 11 Album tracklist:  Butterfly Doors Album runtime: 3 minutes  I did actually want to do this one. It's been staring at me for a while and I remember being curious about this group, though prior to going back over my review for their debut song , I didn't remember why I was curious. But I checked to see if I'd mentioned Underage Protocol or not, and I did, so while the youngest member is sixteen now, she was not at debut, so I have to wait until next year when she's eighteen. Still, I'm not writing the group off as one I won't listen to; one song is not enough for me to do that, and I'm glad this release bothered me enough to remind myself that I thought there was potential even if they need to have longer songs, which is just an issue across the board I will continue to call out. This one is better. It's close to three minutes. Okay, I'm intrigued by this intro (haunted music box vibes) and then the skittering beat that gets...

  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...