Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 August 05 Album tracklist: Achilles Album runtime: 2  minutes  I'm so behind right now. It's fine. More or less. I'm tentatively hopeful over this as the last four or so comebacks they've had I've enjoyed. I'm hoping this will continue, but it's fine if I don't and I get a break. I'd like to like all the songs, but that's unfortunately not realistic. If I haven't said this recently, the reason I stuck with this group from debut, despite not liking their first few title tracks, is because I decided I was going to support them because they were all adults at debut and by the end of the calendar year, all five of them were in their twenties. That's something that's important to me, because it gives the idols a little more life experience and also lets them have those awkward teenage years of self-exploration and mistakes away from the cameras. The other added benefit is that the children also theoretically get a little...

 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...