Just A Little Fangirl Love

  Another Triple Crown can go on the books! I want to confirm who won on The Show  before I add that on here. We've got a first win for a song here, as well as some familiar faces. As I said last week, After School Club would be going on hiatus at the end of its twelve-year first season, which means I have a lot of groups and a lot of performances to be able to look back on and share with you all. So I decided to go back to episode 410 and Weki Meki. The MCs were Jimin (Jamie Park of 15&), Heejun (of American Idol and K-Pop Star fame), and Yuri (of JxR and of almost NCT).It happened to be Yuri's first time as MC on ASC, and we also got a proto-MC Challenge with one of the members of Weki Meki teaching Yuri the point dance for Dazzle Dazzle. I also shared with you their sped up dance they did for that episode of ASC. I've got a special fondness for dances at 2x speed. Show Champion: NMIXX "Know About Me" MCountdown: Jennie (BLACKPINK) "Like Jennie" Mu...

Release date: 2025 March 17 Album track list:   High Horse , KNOW ABOUT ME , Slingshot (<★), Golden Recipe, Papillon, Ocean Album runtime: 17 mi nutes  They weren't up next, but they did have a music show win recently, so I'm going to bump them up in my draft queue. Congrats to NMIXX! I am deeply peeved at the average song length as that's less than three minutes, but that seems to be my standard emotion when finding new album releases these days. I'm very much feeling this to be an industry-wide problem, rather than an individual company problem (though there are certainly some companies I find to be a bigger problem because they combine the short songs with other things that frustrate me), and unfortunately for you all, no, I will not stop pointing it out. But with that being said, I did enjoy High Horse , so I'm tentatively hopeful with this one that I'll like it as well. I really liked High Horse . Please don't sleep on it, y'all. Okay. I'm ab...

Release date: 2025 March 17 Album track list:  High Horse , KNOW ABOUT ME , Slingshot (<★), Golden Recipe, Papillon, Ocean Album runtime: 17 mi nutes   Okay, pre-release. Album comes out on March 17th. I'm not going to be a mess that day at all given what comes two and three days earlier, but it's fine. I'll have this blog to distract me this year and I don't have Minhyun doing his whole thing this year. So! Thank you, NMIXX. I appreciate the timing if nothing else. Also, and this might just be me being weird, but the word papillon doesn't look like it's spelled right. I know it is. But it doesn't look like it. If you didn't know, a papillon is a butterfly in French. Also a type of dog.  I thought this was going to be in the ballad sphere, but this is moody and surprisingly gothic, swinging between the more layered instrumentals and a quiet solo piano. It's almost like gothic dubstep. I don't even know if that's a thing or if I'm just ...

Release date: 2024 August 19 Album tracklist:  See That? ; SICKUHH (Feat. Kid Milli); Red light sign, but here we go; BEAT BEAT; Moving On; Love is Lonely Album runtime: 17 minutes  A-ha! I just checked on their ages and the maknae is an adult, which means I can listen to NMIXX if I decide I like them! I could not have when they debuted because the maknae only turned sixteen that year, but it's been long enough that she's an adult now. Whoo! So it turns out that I've got Moving On  in one of my regular listening playlists. Also, this was a slow day, so I grabbed a random one I haven't reviewed yet. The instrumentals sound a lot like a Beatles song. There's also another song that this sounds like that starts with "Ooohs", which is unfortunately the only thing my brain is handing over about that other song. I feel like it's a NU'EST song though, so I suppose I'll be listening to their entire discography to see if it actually is there. In the mean...