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Song Review:: V.O.S: I Can't Go to Shinchon

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Release date: 2025 December 26 Album tracklist:  I Can't Go to Shinchon , I Can't Go to Shinchon (Inst.) Album runtime: 8 minutes  We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming of 2026 releases to do a review for a song released in December of 2025. Why am I suddenly doing this song four months later? Because I was just looking at the second gen groups because there have to be groups between TVXQ! and Super Junior. Enter: V.O.S with a 2004 debut. And then I was going to go look at their discography, and saw that they'd released a song in 2025. And for the record, with Spotify's recent slop of AI songs released under the older gen artists who aren't as active, I didn't look on Spotify. I was looking on Melon because I wanted the title track of the song for their second album and I saw the new release there. I think they actually put out two things last year, another Best Of album and a digital single. This one is the digital single. I know nothing about them, ...

Battle of the B-Sides:: AMPERS&ONE: I Know You

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 As promised, if you weren't vibing super hard with HyunA's post, here's a boy group that turned two last year and I haven't heard of any issues with them. Also, for the person who submitted this song, it took me a bit because I wanted it to have a good spot where the song could be highlighted well and the group could get the attention it deserved. Coming off the second gen soloist wave and ahead of the soloist for next time, this is a really good spot for them, especially since this song sounds unlike anything around it. I want the submissions especially to be highlighted. If the submission is for a specific date, then I might not have the room and flexible to lead into it well, but if it doesn't, then I get to slowly plant and nurture the area around the submission. And other than the Stray Kids submission that's coming at the end of the month for their anniversary and the three EXID songs I have left to cover (but want to space out because I did three last ye...

The World of K-Pop in 2025

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 Come one, come all to the 2025 recap from your 15th favorite Fangirl! We had a lot of very fun and special moments throughout the year and some absolutely killer albums dropped. This is going to be a beast of a post, so please buckle up. I will attempt to be entertaining, but that means there may be puns and quips involved. I'm also going to scatter random stages from this year throughout the post, just to break things up, and so you can have some music, although I did include that big playlist that I was forming throughout the year. I also included the pet tax, because I talk about them often across all sorts of posts, so you can look forward to that.  Here's your first brain break! Make sure that you've got something to drink! Reading is thirsty work! I'm going to break this up into sections so you can Ctrl+F your way through to each section depending on your interests and how much time you have. And I'll give you a table of contents, because I love table of cont...

Melon Music Awards 2025

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 Well, well. Here we are with another awards show, which means a whole new set of performances. As with the others, I'm going to stay out of the way of the wins and performances. When you make it down to the end, that's when I'll yap. See you then! Enjoy the performances! performances 10CM (_CDEFG + To Reach You) aespa (Drift + Rich Man + Dirty Work ) ALLDAY PROJECT ( ONE MORE TIME + LOOK AT ME + FAMOUS ) Alpha Drive One (HOLA SOLAR + FORMULA ) BOYNEXTDOOR ( Hollywood Action + IF I SAY, I LOVE YOU ) EXO (Wolf + Monster + The Eve + Love Shot + Growl + Back it up) G-Dragon (DRAMA + POWER + HOME SWEET HOME + TOO BAD + Crooked) Hanroro (0+0 + Landing in Love) Hearts2Hearts ( The Chase + Focus ) IDID ( CHAN-RAN + PUSH BACK) ILLIT ( Do The Dance + Not Cute Anymore ) IVE ( XOXZ + ATTITUDE + REBEL HEART ) Jennie (Seoul City + ZEN + like JENNIE ) KiiiKiii (To Me From Me + I DO ME + DANCING ALONE ) NCT Wish ( poppop + Videohood + COLOR ) RIIZE ( Fame + Bag Bad Back + ...