Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release Date: 2025 July 16 Album tracklist: loverboy, friend like me, round and round, ifeye (interlude), r u okay? , say moo!, echo Album runtime: 17 minutes  Oh, ifeye. If they'd debuted a few weeks later, I could actually like this group like I want to. Okay, full disclosure, I did see this performed like at KCON LA 2025 before I wrote this, but I tried not to have my reviewing brain on. I will say I was impressed and am sulking because the maknae was fifteen at debut. But can we talk about the album runtime? I had to round up for that number, and it's awful. That's not even an average of two and a half minutes a song. Big, big sigh from me. Also, here's the review I did for their debut song , in case you're curious. So, I'm personally loving the tonal shift I've been hearing away from the milquetoast, elevator BGM sound that a lot of K-Pop has been using a lot lately, especially the girl groups. They're fine on their own occasionally for the sake of ...

Release date: 2025 July 14 Album tracklist: BTTF, CHILLER , I LIKE IT, DREAM TEAM, Interlude : Back to Our Paradise, 'Bout You, That Summer, Miss Me, Beautiful Sailing Album runtime: 27 minutes  I don't understand why SM keeps putting NCT subunits' comeback dates so close to each other. Like, yes, I know that there are fans of the individual subunits, and that's fine because for the most part, I think you could think of them as separate groups. There's not a lot of Whole Group Activities, you know? At least not that I'm aware of. But at the same time, I know there are also a lot of people who are NCTzens (and I finally learned how to pronounce that this weekend, so, yay me). But this happened back in November as well, right? I'm not even a fan, and that's frustrating. These instrumentals at the beginning remind me a lot of VHS tapes from the 80s and 90s. Also, and I think it's worth noting, I'm reminded a lot of the Friday the 13th game. So that...