Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 October 19 Album tracklist: Like you, 12 o'clock , Outside, One plus one, Not personal (Joshua Solo), Coloring (Jeonghan Solo), No looking back Album runtime: 19 minutes  Whoo! The next of the Seventeen subunits has debuted, which means that now Jeonghan is in almost as many subunits as Hoshi is. If they'd done the Guoz subunit, then SCoups would have been in as many official subunits as Hoshi. I'm deeply upset though over the fact that we have a title track that is shorter than two-and-a-half minutes. And only two of the seven songs are over three minutes. But this is a specific problem across all of the HYBE groups. I don't know what it is about this song, but it sounds oddly SHINee. Am I the only one hearing that? It's got a good streak of funky guitar and almost catcalling whistling. It's just really too short to have too much variation to it, although I love how the rest of the instrumental sort of pauses a little during the whistling. We...

Release date: 2026 September 28 Album tracklist: 360 (Feat. MABELZ), YueBei, I See You, Dexire, Inward, 4give, 9 Album runtime: 14 minutes  Did he give us another addition to the horror songs he previously has dropped for us in his solo stuff? Both Psycho and Limbo are in my Halloween playlist, I want you to know. This is an odd set of tracks with almost half of them under a minute. It's an interesting choice. Removing those three, we're looking at about a three-minute runtime for the average. Jun, I know what kind of choreography this song needs because that is a strong beat right there. THe instrumental also gets sparkly at the end with what is possibly a bridge. It's a fun combination that does a lot for the song in its variability because otherwise it's more of a basic dance track, which is a crime against his talent. There's a lot of repetition is what I'm saying. But the beat is doing a lot of the heavy lifting because this obviously has the choreography t...

Release date: 2026 July 16 Album tracklist:  Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter Korean ver. , Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter Japanese ver. Album runtime: 10 minutes  With DK now enlisted and Mingyu about to enlist, which tells you when I'm writing this regardless of when it actually gets posted, I'm feeling emotionally fragile, so I'm going to do this now. Since we're actually really close to getting him back. And this was for his birthday, which makes me happier. There's a violin. Instant approval. And five whole minutes of song. I love him. I love that he gave us this as a gift. The instrumental is softly cinematic with very distinct sections that allow for enough variation that it can actually move and flow. The piano is the most delicate instrument of the bunch, but it carries the weight of supporting his vocals more than any of the others. This is such a pretty instrumental, and I love that. You know how amusing it is that the deep-voiced rapper of Seventeen and their ...

Release date: 2026 August 03 Album tracklist: ZZAN, Party Rock Rock (prod. Hitchhiker) , Sincerely (prod. Lee Hyun Do of DEUX) , Micheo Micheo , Love Sick (narr. Lee Moon Sae) , For JEONG and LOVE, LIKE IT Album runtime: 20 minutes  The day has finally arrived, everyone, and I am late. So late, in fact, that I forgot there was another song that was a pre-release. But, he has officially debuted. Also, I'm super excited to see him on Zip Daesung, because that's two maknaes who stepped away from their groups by doing trot as their solo debut. I'm also laughing that one of the tracks is both Picheolin and Dino. The piano does such a great fake out for the song. Gorgeous iano and then it's just all trot. If I had to describe this song, which I absolutely do since I'm here, that is like Italian disco, but villa Italian disco, not city. It's surprisingly rural feeling, obviously something I relate to. This is high energy with a strong dance beat, but the kind of dance ...

 [Insert the upside down smiley face here] In all seriousness, I know I'm very late, but I think I got through most of the reviews I wanted to do and it's time to do this. Otherwise I'll just keep putting it off and end up having to write it in December so that I can write my year-end wrap-up. Like last year. We're trying to avoid the stress I put myself through in December again. And spoiler for the songs I was listening to this month, it was a lot of NU'EST, so I'm only going to include the one I listened to the most rather than the four that would be included. For once, my top NU'EST listen was not FACE.  Debut time! Debuts I covered: NAZE , YUHZ , HEART OF WOMAN , AND2BLE , and H//PE PRINCESS . Debuts I didn't cover: FLARE U . Soloists whose debut I did not cover: J.Seph (KARD) (note: this is actually a draft so this will likely be finished at some point so this will be edited when I do) and Gabee (JAESSBEE) .  Songs I was looking forward to: I.O.I-...

Release date: 2026 August 03 Album tracklist: ZZAN, Party Rock Rock (prod. Hitchhiker) , Sincerely (prod. Lee Hyun Do of DEUX) , Micheo Micheo , Love Sick (narr. Lee Moon Sae) , For JEONG and LOVE, LIKE IT Album runtime: 20 minutes  I genuinely don't even know how to title this. Congrats, Dino! And also, congrats to one of possibly the most successful inside jokes to come out of any group! It's a bit odd, but at the same time, knowing Seventeen, Dino debuting as his old man character before he debuts as Dino properly (listen to Wait , y'all) is very on brand for them. The "S" in SVT stands for "strange." Ah, drama. Ah, saxophone. This instrumental is a hot cup of chowder on a cold day. I'm struggling so hard to not actually listen to his voice here for this section. I hope you all appreciate the effort. But that saxophone, y'all. I'm a little surprised at the audio balancing, because there are a couple of spots where the instrumental almost o...

Release date: 2026 June 15 Album tracklist: Snapback Album runtime: 2 minutes  I figured I'd just hit both of the Seventeen songs that I didn't do in June. Happy late birthday, Hoshi. Less than a year left until you're back. This is your classic beat going on here and it sounds so much like Love Money Fame (am I the only one that remembers that order because it's the opposite of FML ?) that I had to stop and sing past the beginning part to figure out which song this sounded like, which is interesting that this doesn't share any songwriters with that song (not even a wild Woozi, so Hoshi apparently gave him a bit of a break). But there are some interesting sound effects going on in the instrumental occasionally, and we occasionally get rests in there to help interrupt the sound. Which is good. It's what we want. This is a lot of English for Hoshi. I'm proud of him. There's a lot of yearning going on in this song, which, as we know is something that I lov...

Release date: 2026 June 30 Album tracklist: Friend, BEAT, singasong , mia, coloring, girlsnboys, 8DM, rat race Album runtime: 22 minutes  When this subunit was first announced, I posted on Threads about how I needed them to call their subunit "V8" because of how funny it was. And then we got the subunit name. And I felt so pleased with myself. I still feel pleased with myself. Very validated. And I know I said I was going to focus on the July releases, which I've done a terrible job of so far, but they got a win, so I need to get this post done. It's not that I was neglecting them on purpose, I promise. This is 8-bit video game in the best way possible. Like, I've had this on repeat for, I think, an hour at this point while I read a Wiki on Five Nights at Freddy's  and I've just been vibing to it. It's very electronic, and that isn't one of my reliable yes types, though I do like some aspects of it fairly reliably. However, because of the aesthetic...

 I have changed which song I want to do for Jeonghan's discharge song three times now. I considered Pretty U, because I love the bit of the choreography where he does the cheek tapping move. And I would consider it for Joshua because of his iconic mistake, but since he's an LA native born and raised, he won't be getting discharged. And I have the cheek tapping move attached to Jeonghan. It's very cute. Then I thought about doing one of the Japanese releases because he learned Japanese to talk to the Japanese Carats because English and Chinese were already covered. My second favorite Seventeen song is a Japanese release, but I also feel like I want to hold onto Ima for a different occasion. So then I switched to Power of Love , because I liked the symbolism of that and up until a couple of days ago, I had Power of Love locked. Until I suddenly decided, literally the day I finished my post for Something for Ren's discharge, that Power of Love was in fact wrong, and...

 It's not that I delayed this on purpose, but I needed to settle from the 3/10 star weekend I had at the beginning of the month. Sixty hours of stress, anxiety, and frustration. I will also never be going back to El Paso. NU'EST could literally come back and do a single concert, only in El Paso, and I would not go back. I would be begging Aron to add literally any other stop, but I would not be going back to El Paso. The city hates me. The people are lovely, but like I said. 3/10 stars. One of those stars was the pizza I got, because wow that was delicious. Okay, debut time. Group debuts I covered: KEYVITUP , hertz.wav , MODYSSEY , UNCHILD . Soloists who debuted that I covered: Somin (APRIL/KARD) , ALL'N , Kangin (Super Junior) , Vari (NINE.i) . Songs I was looking forward to: TOP (BIGBANG): TOP IS BACK, BABY! KickFlip: I was a little shaky with them on debut, but they have since won me over strongly. I like these kids. TOMORROW X TOGETHER: Do they get songs of a decent len...

 I hope some of you figured out the group based on that last little hint that has now been fixed on Angel 's post, and I hope at least one of you was able to figure out which song I decided to do. This song sits in a little bit of an interesting spot because while it does technically match the May theme, it's actually fulfilling a much bigger role. If you've been around here for a while, you may know that I've got a massive soft spot for Seventeen that started out because they're NU'EST's brothers (and was resisted for several months even though I'd already attached to SCoups because the jerk decided to shred his knee in a potentially career-ending injury right when I got into K-Pop so that injury was the second thing I learned about Seventeen and resulted in my worry being activated before I ever actually knew anything). So my attachment was inevitable. It has since grown into respect independent of NU'EST, but that's why it's surprising tha...