The Junk Drawer

You know those drawers you have in your house where you just shove stuff, and you swear you're going to go through it someday, but not right now? The only time you ever actually open that drawer is either to put more things in there or to dig something very specific out that you are pretty sure you put in there in March of 2012?

This is going to be my junk drawer for this blog. And because I am me, and this is mine, I'm going to start off the reason I'm writing any of these. Also, this way, FACE gets to be the thumbnail when I look at this page from behind the scenes, and that will make me happy.


 I'm going to yell about NU'EST for a long time, if past behavior is any indication. I'm just going to be up front about it. Here. Here is the music video for the debut song. It's amazing. For a long, long time, it was the most viewed debut music video by a boy group, until it was finally dethroned by BTS and TxT a couple of years ago, which is very impressive for a group that almost was disbanded in their first five years and took seven years to get a first win as a full group. Frustrates me to no end about Pledis, but I cannot change the past. There are five members of Seventeen in the music video, and they clearly love it, considering Dino started singing it during one of their Going Seventeen episodes. The part that makes me laugh every time is that two of the five Seventeen members in the music video are there when Dino starts that, three if you count SCoups, wherever he was at the time since he's just...around. The one below this paragraph is Hello, a most beloved song and the reason why I started being fond of BTS in the first place. Why? Because RM sang it so much, everywhere, that he annoyed the other BTS members, and you can literally see the effect him singing it all over the place, and talking about it everywhere, had on their album sales. Which is why JR thanked him in a tweet. No matter what else happens with them, I will like BTS for that. The two groups are friends.

Also, the choreography. NU'EST choreography is amazing.

Anyway, I actually have a playlist on Spotify entitled Junk Drawer, which contains songs that have been recommended to me either through algorithm or by word of mouth (that I haven't had a chance to listen to and decide about yet). People often say "I'll add it to my list." Mine is over 3000 songs long and I don't want to look at it too long because it stresses me out. But I also have songs in there that I have in other playlists, that either a) I didn't notice were already in other playlists, b) I was in too much of a hurry to sort so the daylist just got dumped in there, or c) I added them directly to another playlist from that playlist later, so I never saw if they were already in the Junk Drawer. 

Much like that playlist, I also have no idea what's going to end up in this page, but, knowing me, I'm going to need one anyway. 

REVIEW HUBS
The Greatest Hits: Home to any of the reviews I do for title tracks that qualify for this segment.

Battle of the B-Sides: As much as I love a lot of title tracks, many of my faves have been found in the b-sides. And there are a lot more b-sides than there are title tracks. The chaos show is contained within. Welcome. There will also be no actual battling, because I don't rank them like that, but I do like the alliteration.

Previous Year Reviews: Currently only contains reviews from August 2023 because NINE.i decided to put out some new videos from their album that was released that month, and now I need to add more because I feel weird leaving them alone like that. At the end of each year, the old year will get added to this page.

2024: Currently contains reviews primarily from August-December, with an additional shout-out to March, because DAY6 won a first place on a music show after I started the Music Show Wins, which meant I had to have a review for it based on the pattern I had established. Whoo.

MUSIC SHOW WINS HUBS
2024: I'm not going any earlier than October. I'm not. I'm not adding that much work for myself.

HALLOWEEN AND THE SPOOKENING
2024: Look. I've been completely up front about how much I love creepy music. It's a thing. I'm aware. But since this post wouldn't technically belong literally anywhere else, it goes here. Also, this post is single-handedly the reason this page exists.

ABOUT ME: I suppose I should put this post somewhere so it doesn't get completely lost, although how many people actually look at those things, I don't know.

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