Just A Little Fangirl Love

  This is what we call a clean sweep. It's also not the first one this year, but it is the first one from a group/artist that is less than five years old, so that's very impressive for a rookie group. Congrats to the fans for this one, and well done for the kids! They're almost all eighteen or older, so I really probably shouldn't call them the kids anymore, but I'll stop once they get their own dongsaeng group at Pledis. For the random ASC episode as they're still on hiatus, I realized that I'm essentially giving you reruns and not in order because I'm a frustrating person like that. This time we're only going back about two years (and the song is about old enough for me to do a Greatest Hits post on it so that's available if someone wants to submit that). The sexy dance by one of the members had the hosts (Aron, Allen, and Taeyoung) shooketh, and the fans, and me, and I was deeply impressed by their 2x speed dance. It was good. It was fun. I le...

  I am super late with posting this, but in my defense, I GOT TO SEE 8TURN THIS WEEK AND THEY'RE AWESOME AND VERY PRETTY. And very funny. And very, very good dancers. And their vocals? Took my earplugs out a couple of times just to hear some of those notes better. Myungho has a set of pipes on him, let me tell you. Color me impressed. Anyway, we got some first song wins this week, which is delightful. There are only three groups that got wins this week, and all three of them debuted last year, funnily enough, so that's good news for the kids. I say kids. They range from roughly 23 to 14. Big spread of ages. I'm not entirely pleased with all of those ages, but regardless of that, I wish the groups' continued success as they continue to learn and grow and become better artists and hopefully well-rounded people. For the ASC performance as After School Club is still on hiatus, I just scrolled randomly and landed on Cross Gene, which was interesting because the episode was f...

Release date: 2025 April 20 Album tracklist: Lucky to be loved, Countdown! , Random Play, Freestyle, Now Playing, GO BACK Album runtime: 15 minutes  This is a really minor thing, and I don't know if it's just me, but I actually prefer when the English titles follow the literal translation more closely than matching the vibe. The members are stepping into their next era after their school-hood debut era now that they're a whole year old, and with the maknae turning eighteen this year, the English title does make sense in that regard. But I like the flow and lyricism of the original Korean. Which I understand mostly. Yay me. Progress. But if you've been following these reviews for any amount of time, you'll know that I have a soft spot a football stadium wide for all Pledis groups, and TWS feels like the softer side of my beloved NU'EST. I desperately want TWS to be on ASC with Aron. It would feel so full circle. However, because I generally like songs released b...

  Release date: 2024 November 25 Album tracklist: Highlight, Last Festival , Comma, Album runtime: 9 minutes If you're new to this, I love NU'EST an exceeding amount, and that's why you're reading these words right now. If you aren't new, then you can likely guess what I'm about to say. I decided I was going to love this group as soon as it was announced that Pledis would be debuting a new boy group. Didn't hear a beat of music from them, knew nothing about them, and I decided I would love them for the sole and simple reason that they are NU'EST's grand-dongsaengs, and that they were introduced by Seventeen the same way that NU'EST introduced them. Though it took me until TWS's second mini album to get the music video-ed b-side that actually caught me as a fan outside of my simple loyalty to NU'EST, I'm very fond of them and continue to have tentatively high hopes for their music as the Powers That Be, be they Pledis or HYBE, give the...

 This is going to be the least filled out of these. In the future, I'll be more on top of releases, but considering I started this near the end of the month, I'm going to give myself a pass. Top Releases of the Month : Moonbyul's Is This Love? - I'm really not joking when I say that if this song isn't one of my top listens of the year, I'm going to be really sad. It's basically perfect and...I want more of this. Give me more interesting musical techniques, I beg of the industry. B.A.P's Gone - I just want to wrap myself up in the song and pretend like everything is okay. Is it? I don't know, but what I do know is the fact that they managed to come back together after all the trauma they went through together, even if they aren't fully back together yet, gives me hope for all the groups that didn't deserve what happened to them (and the handful of my small groups that are struggling right now). Honorable Mentions : xikers's Tsuki (Lunatic)...