Just A Little Fangirl Love

 So with the month halfway over, I'm enjoying the rhythm and tempo of the sequential songs, because I think that this is a good order. How have y'all been finding this month's theme? Enjoying the songs so far? Finding any new ones you haven't heard before? Figured out what the theme is yet? I know you can't see my face right now, but I've got a delightful villainous eyebrow waggle going on. PIXY debuted in 2021 under Happy Tribe Entertainment as a six-member group. I'm pretty sure that this is one of the many, many, many  amazingly talented groups that suffered from being at a small company and never quite managing to get a lot of traction. This song is not one of the ones I have saved in various playlists, but I have it on good authority that it fits the theme for the month, and I hope by the end of this, it gets onto some playlists for y'all as well. I'm going to call this group disbanded only because the company went bankrupt and we haven't he...

  So many first wins for songs, and, I think we may have a first win for a group? I think so? If that's the case, then an even bigger congrats!  I miss back when After School Club was active (yes, I'm still in denial) because then I didn't have to pick an artist. And then I didn't miss seeing those three every week. It was nice getting to see what Aron is up to. Sigh. Don't let my melancholy stop you from enjoying Ep. 576 from back in 2023, featuring ATBO, though! For The Show, I went with Cravity (and it was actually my first time hearing that song; whoever is doing the ad-libs there at the end, yowza) in 2020. I grabbed three extra stages for y'all this week. First up, I went with 82MAJOR, then ILLIT, then Xnghan&Xoul, so I hope you enjoy those as much as I did.  As always, any links in the spreadsheet go to my reviews, and then down with the ASC episode, that link goes to the entire episode, which gets a bit wonky when I try to embed it, so I don't tr...

Release date: 2026 April 07 Album tracklist: Paradise of Rumors ; Spring of Colors; Paid With Bugs; Joy, Sorrow, A Beautiful Heart; Sunshine Bless You; Tent; Young and Married; The Right Person; Graceful Breakfast; Festival of Refugees; Stains Album runtime: 37 minutes  I thought I was done with the April reviews mostly, but they got a music show win! So, here we are! And this is a full album with nine of the eleven songs over three minutes, including a title track that does technically round up to four minutes. I love them. Have I mentioned that I love them? And specifically that I love Chanhyuk because he's the songwriter for giving us these gifts in the world of two-minute title tracks? I wish I was joking, but one of the songs I reviewed in the last few weeks was literally two minutes and three seconds. I take back what I said about Vari's song. Somewhat.  This  is country music. This is 90s country music to be specific. I was a little bit anxious for various reasons,...

Release date: 2026 April 30 Album tracklist: MY DEAREST , YESTERDAY, MY DEAREST Instrumental Album runtime: 13 minutes  Happy debut! I'm still holding out hope for your group! Hope springs eternal! I love him for the runtime alone. I love that we got the instrumental. It reminds me a lot of something that I would have heard when I was young. It also almost feels like country music of the Garth Brooks variety rather than the George Strait variety, which is a very specific reference that I know a lot of people aren't going to get, but it's the higher, pinballing-energy-on-stage kind of country song rather than a man and his guitar on a stool. And the more I listen to it, the more it's starting to settle into my brain and read like country music. It didn't have that immediate recognition in my gut, but between the prominence of the melodic guitar and the violin, there was a specific stretch of time from like 2006-2008 where this instrumental could have fit in well.  Th...

Release date: 2026 May 05 Album tracklist:  WHY Album runtime: 2 minutes  Two-and-a-half minutes. I know I harp about it a lot, but I refuse to not continue to do so because it is ridiculous that I'm grateful for songs over three minutes. I've finally remembered when I see their name that I really like them, which is progress on my end! This is a fun little instrumental. It's not quite fully in celebratory or party mode, but the energy is excellent and bright all the same. It is making me wonder a little if this is one of those songs that sounds really upbeat and cheerful but then you look at the lyrics and you realize the song is depressing. But I am pleased overall with the little touches of variation here. The energy shifts are what I'm looking for. The last little bit of the song, the vocals just kind of pile on each other in the most entertaining way. It's not fully scratching the itch that I have for the bright energy song, but I'm down with this vocally. ...

Release date: 2026 May 04 Album tracklist: TNT , REDRED , ACAI , YOUNGCREATORCREW, Wassup, Blue Lips Album runtime: 16 minutes  So many capital letters from these guys. As a side note, I was deeply amused by James's valid crash out over the new-and-false version of the alphabet song. Fun fact, the ememememoh problem kids can have is easily fixed by instead singing it to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star until they get it, and then switching to the correct version. We didn't need a new version. I don't know what role James takes in the group, not a clue, but I have a feeling that this may take up some of their next album, HYBE permitting. Speaking of HYBE, two-minute title track. Alright. This had better have something big if this is going to be two-minutes long. And, it doesn't. The instrumental goes nowhere. It sounds nice. But it just is there and it fades into the background so fast that I'm wildly disappointed. I didn't even notice that it disappeared ...