Just A Little Fangirl Love

   I'm not sure there was an actual live performance this week, so you're getting old performances for the winners. Except for Doyoung. I don't think he ever performed this live because I think it came out after his enlistment. Either way, there are still some performances for your perusal. Because there were no live performances, at least not that I could find, I couldn't give you an extra stage. Sorry. I can give you a couple of re-runs though. For After School Club re-run, it's Royal Pirates, also known as RP. We had some stunning covers this episode, but I highly recommend that you check out their music if you liked them here. I discovered them a couple of months ago, but didn't know that they'd been on ASC until the choosing of the re-run for this week. For the The Show performance re-run, I grabbed another group that I've recently discovered. Most of their discography seems to have vanished from a lot of the streaming services, which saddens me be...

Release date: 2025 December 09 Album tracklist:  PROMISE , Whistle (feat. Belle) Album runtime: 7 minutes  Serve well, Doyoung. We'll see you when you get back, and your ring will be kept safe by your members. I'm suddenly grateful that my Korean is still as garbage as it is because I've got a feeling that this song is going to make me cry. This is a beautiful song and a beautiful gift for the NCTzens. The piano takes a quiet center stage at the start, and then the percussion and the strings join. That's the trifecta of instruments as far as I'm concerned. The combination this time around creates a very soft base to cradle Doyoung's voice. It's a lovely song.  I love it when vocalists get let loose. He's got an incredible voice and I love that his gift to the fans shows that off so well. This feels like a love song, and that would make sense. The idols tend to get very sentimental when it's time to enlist, which is entirely understandable and welcome...

  I'm simply really behind with this. I'm not through doing this. Anyway, we're running down to the end of the Seventeen comeback season, which opens the wins back up to everyone else, as we're clearly seeing below. As much as I've loved seeing Seventeen get their wins for their tenth anniversary, I'm glad for the variation now. Although we get another surprise win for Woodz. It's a welcome development, but a little baffling. I really hope that someone askes him how he feels about this when he gets out. I do have to say it's been a good week for soloists, though. I did not continue that with the After School Club re-run episode, however.  As always, the links in the graph below go to my reviews of those songs. Show Champion: Doyoung (NCT) "Memory" MCountdown: Seventeen "THUNDER" Music Bank: Doyoung (NCT) "Memory" Show! Music Core:  Doyoung (NCT) "Memory" Inkigayo: Woodz (UNIQ/X1) "Drowning" ASC Performanc...

Release date: 2025 June 9 Album track list: Wake From The Dark, Memory , Be My Light, First Step, Just Friends, Luminous, Still, Sonnet, Sand Box, Eternity Album runtime: 37 mi nutes  Doyoung! The last thing I reviewed with him was, I believe, a submission for Perfume , which was an absolute delight. I know none of us want to think about it, but he is going to have to enlist this year. The sooner they go, the sooner they come back. Although it's possible that both Doyoung and Jaehyun will be discharged before Jungwoo enlists, so I don't know if that's something to look forward to or not for the NCTzens, but it is a possibility. In other news, I'm in love with the album runtime. That's almost four minutes per song. You go, Doyoung. You go, dude. Memory  has a delightful ebb and flow to it with the energy levels alternating between the softer, almost ballad-y soothe and the more energetic rock bursts with the only sometimes gentle guitar tying the two parts together. ...

  Release date: 2024 November 06 Album tracklist:  The Story Album runtime: 3 minutes  He apparently made his solo debut earlier this year! Congrats! That's awesome! And considering what year he was born, it's probably a good thing that he debuted as a soloist this year rather than waiting until next year, because that would be an emotional one-two punch for the fans. I don't know if he planned this kindness on purpose or if it was an accident, but I'm choosing to believe it was on purpose and a gift for the fans. These instrumentals are absolutely lovely and gorgeously cinematic. Seriously, where is the movie that these instrumentals belong in? Opening with just the guitar gives the song a gentle roughness that smooths out leading into the first verse, and while the guitar does remain the dominant sound throughout most of the song, the bridge with its introductory piano coaxes the listener into settling before one last explosion. The only  thing I don't like about ...