Just A Little Fangirl Love

  I think the term for when a song gets a full set of wins is a "Grand Slam", which has a different meaning as a tennis player but is no less impressive. Oh, a song got one of those this week. Whoo! Congrats! Because of that and the lack of music show performances for that song, I decided to add another extra performance. It doesn't make up for the five, but if things go as I expect them to, next week should be the last one where I have minimal performances to show y'all. So, for the After School Club re-run, I went with RAINBOW in Ep. 201 back in 2016. They were actually one of the first groups to be on After School Club at all! Not this episode. Although because of which channel this came from, you get the whole episode embedded here! For The Show , I went with a pretty recent one from last year for 8TURN. Then for the two extra stages, I went with Kangmin on MCountdown and Baby DONT Cry on Show! Music Core . The links in the spreadsheet, as always, go to my revie...

Release date: 2026 March 24 Album tracklist: Mama I'm Alright,  Bittersweet , Shapeshifter ,  Moves Like Ciara, Tears On My Pillow Album runtime: 15 minutes  What? I'm actually doing the title track after doing the pre-release in a semi-reasonable timeframe? Am I ill? Because there's no way that I'm actually almost put together like this. I literally haven't been this almost prepped since I first started writing these. A-year-and-a-half ago. Anyway, like I said in the pre-release review, I'm not putting them on Underage Protocol even though three-fourths were underage at debut. I remember hearing something about their debut song being inappropriate for the number of minors, but I didn't listen to it, nor did I review it, so that might be a good thing, This has a pleasant instrumental. There are no big surprises, no moment of sudden change. Everything changes exactly when and how it should. Reliable, steady. It's got variations to it, don't get me wro...

Release date: 2026 March 24 Album tracklist: Mama I'm Alright, Bittersweet , Shapeshifter, Moves Like Ciara, Tears On My Pillow Album runtime: 15 minutes  I apparently missed their debut last year. Oops. And since their album recently came out and I missed their pre-release, I'm going to do the pre-release and then the title track in fairly quick succession. And, in case anyone cares, the maknae turns 18 this year and was 16 at debut (December birthday). I'm going to give them a slight pass on the other qualifier for Underage Protocol (>50% of members eighteen at debut) only because the middle two debuted at seventeen, but turned eighteen fairly shortly after debut, and the eldest was over eighteen. I don't like it. But. Considering this is my first review of theirs, they were borderline to begin with, and they're all but the maknae at least eighteen as of this moment, I will give them that pass. The company better not make me regret it. The average runtime is a...

 I waited until I had access to my laptop again before getting to work on this. I figured if I was going to do this little blog thing, I'd do it right, and while these won't be properly traditional reviews, I'd still like to share my thoughts, such as they are. I'm going to preface this with saying that if y'all have been following this for a while, y'all know that I have opinions on certain things, but I also recognize that this is an incredibly difficult job that they do, and they deserve our respect because they have to put up with a lot and have to do a lot in order to have this profession. It's part of why I have frustrations with debuting minors, especially fifteen or younger, and with short songs and with bland songs. But in most instances, the idols are hella talented. It's just that they're not shown off well. Now, if you're still reading and you're new here, welcome! If you're not new here, welcome back!  Let's get into it! ...