Just A Little Fangirl Love

  The BigHit domination continues, with the one to follow BTS being their very own little brothers. It feels a bit like they were passing on the torch, which makes me smile. There was also a Grand Slam (still have not looked that up and no one is correcting me so we're assuming that I'm correct) this week, so congrats! Surprise! We got three extra stages this time: two from Show Champion and one from Show! Music Core . Obviously because TXT won, I had to add on an ALL'N performance (please refer to last week's wins if you're unfamiliar with their adorable meet-cute in the elevator). And interestingly, that performance has a surprisingly high number of views for a freshly debuted soloist not in a decently sized company or from a group, more so than some of the other stages I shared. The other two extras I shared, because I can share what I want, were Donghae and Be Boys. (Just to make it obvious what I'm doing in case you're new here and missed the irritati...

Release date: 2026 April 15 Album tracklist:  SLAM DUNK , SLAM DUNK (inst) Album runtime: 6 minutes  I'd like to see them drop more music or more regularly release singles. They need the attention. And not just because I'm loud and vocal in my support for my boy, Hakseong, the first North Korean idol to debut. They've got a lot going for them. (I'm also writing this after the JUSTB concert and my flabbers are gasted. I'm going to need 3-5 business days to recover from what happened for my friend and me; trust me, it was a very good thing (on an unrelated note, I feel so bad for them because they were having the worst sound issues and Bain promised to come back to do a better concert)). This is a very odd instrumental. I don't think I'm the target audience for this song, at least not in this stage of the listen, but that could change with the vocals. There's audience participation snapping in some spots, and a lot of record squeaking. Seriously. So much r...

  As of right now, June has the fewest number of reviews that I managed this year. Not that it was a particularly slow month, I was just very inconsistent.  So debuts for the month of June in the year 2025! The ones I covered were  BE BOYS  and  ALLDAY PROJECT . Funny story, according to YouTube Music, because of how I write these, apparently I was one of the top listeners of "FAMOUS". Which is a little unfortunate. The groups I did not cover were USPEER ,  Re:Hearts (a co-ed band), KIIRAS , aoen , Double One ,  XONIK (which is already on hiatus and may be disbanded), DIVA-X , OX:N (Omega X subunit), Baby DONT Cry , and X-UNIT (XODIAC subunit). Nina, a new soloist, also debuted !  Songs I was looking forward to (even if I didn't actually cover them): ITZY: I'm really starting to like their sound. They've had some stunning songs izna: They haven't dropped a ton of songs yet, but I've been deeply enjoying all of what they've given us so far. QWE...

 By the time you read this, there will be less than a month left in 2025, which is crazy because it feels like January was simultaneously two months ago and also eighteen years ago.  First up, we have the debuts. Technically one of these that I covered was in fact posted in December, but I am counting it because it was a November debut, though not for a group. The group I covered was AM8IC , a boy group made up entirely of Chinese members that is based in South Korea and debuting in South Korea in K-Pop. I wanted to be very specific about this. The only other group I can think of that's this interesting in terms of demographics, starting location, and target audience is 1verse, which also doesn't have a South Korean in the group. Anyway, they debuted this month. And for the solo debut that I covered, that would be Jungwoo of NCT , right before his impending military enlistment. This means that all three members of the NCT subunit DoJaeJung will be in the military within the we...

Release date: 2025 November 25 Album tracklist: Earth and Moon , Earth and Moon - Instrumental Album runtime: 5 minutes   Their debut was one of the few songs I actually covered during the summer months because I was so excited that Hakseong was getting to debut, the first North Korean idol to debut in a South Korean kpop group. I was rooting for him so hard on MAKEMATE1. And there's only one member of the group who wasn't on a survival show. Very curious to see what this one is going to be like.  That guitar gives me life. Oh, hello, you interesting beauty of an instrumental track. I wish I were kidding, but there are like three or four separate songs going on in less than three minutes. It's a bit cluttered, but honestly at no point could I predict where the song was going. It started off feeling like a standard, ball game instrumental track, which would have been good enough, but then it just kept switching up. This entire thing is just delightful. And I absolutely love...

Release date: 2025 June 18 Album tracklist: I'M SO SORRY, BUT I LOVE YOU ; if i ain't got you; CLOVER; BE There Album runtime: 13 minutes  This group has the first North Korean to debut as an idol! His name is Hakseong, he was a finalist on MakeMate1 (which I watched and was sad he didn't debut in NouerA , but couldn't be happier that he gets to debut now), and he has a gorgeous voice, you guys. And, best part, is that the whole lot are full adults except for the maknae, who turned seventeen less than a week ago, so the group passes both of my criteria. I actually would have been really sad if one of the two didn't pass because I fell so far head over heels for one of the b-sides. I'll talk about them later. Because I'm giving this group a little special attention. I'm rooting so hard for this group.  That guitar is loud and in front, very much a seventies sound. Actually I'm reminded of one of the songs from Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed soundtr...