Just A Little Fangirl Love

  Almost a full set of stages for you to watch, and almost a clean sweep for a single group too. Well done. And well done to the rookies for their win as well! Very exciting! We love to see this here.  For our extra stages, we have 82MAJOR on ep. 652 of After School Club from 2024 (complete with the MC challenge if you wanted the step-by-step instructions on how to do their challenge), Weki Meki in 2021 (this is a very cute song and I love it), and the extra stage from this week went to Yang Yoseob because I just watched his Kode he did with Minhyun and I thought it was delightful and adorable. As always, the links in the spreadsheet go to my reviews, the link on down for ASC goes to the full episode because things go a little cattywampus when I try to embed the video, and I hope you have a lovely week! Show Champion: ATEEZ "Adrenaline" MCountdown: KiiiKiii "404 (New Era)" Music Bank: ATEEZ "Adrenaline" Show! Music Core: ATEEZ "Adrenaline" Inkiga...

Release date: 2026 February 09 Album track list: Fade Away , Dear My, Don't Go Away, Moonlit Mirage, Nightly, Shine Album runtime: 20 mi nutes  If this is the member I think he is, he's so funny when they do their monthly gaming stream. He's also one of the ones who is better at gaming in general and doesn't scream at the slightest spook. That's basically all of the content that I watch of those guys because I like watching the idols play video games. It's an intersection of two of my great loves. He's also the main vocalist, so I'm curious about what kind of vocal prowess we're about to hear from this, his third mini album. Most of the instrumental for the first part of the home is a piano, which gives the song a softness to it, especially since it's just wonderfully melodic and simple. The standard addition of drums and strings (which instantly makes it a win in my book as we know) continues with that softness. The song does kick up its heels a...

 Howdy, folks and cowfolks!  Starting off with the debuts! I actually have one still sitting in my drafts so that will have to happen eventually, but I also only covered three of the others: CLOSE YOUR EYES , ifeye , and SWEET:CH . I'm still frustrated by certain trends regarding girl group debuts right now, but the two boy groups didn't frustrate me in the same way.  Also debuting were  SKINZ (a virtual boy group), TSSJ (a virtual girl group), VVS , OSDS , HITGS , and  UDTT . I mentioned it in the review I wrote for one of their later songs, but there's also a boy group called VVS and that's also the name of Vanner's fandom. So if you're into that debut, be aware that there may be some future confusion. Hopefully the company changes the name. It's been known to happen. Songs I was looking forward to: Solar (MAMAMOO): I'm always going to be really excited about anything MAMAMOO as a group or as soloists do, because you know we're basically guarante...

  One of those wins is not like the others. I saw the article the other day talking about its surprise climb up the charts since last October, but what's so impressive about this is the song is over a year old and Woodz is in the military (also, this was his second win ever, which makes me so genuinely happy for him). He gets out in July, which is now something else for me to look forward to while I wait for Minhyun to get out. We're down to about seven months for him, about ten for JR, and about thirteen for Jeonghan and Ren (I think). Little micro-goals to focus on instead of the inevitable creep of time resulting in more idols enlisting. The discharges is a much less stressful thing to focus on. I also apologize for the lack of reviews the last few days, so I'll move these necessary reviews up to the top of the list for me to do, and add Woodz in. Not that this is a hardship because I love Drowning , but whatever. (This is a hint that if someone else also loves this song...

Release date: 2025 April 28 Album tracklist:  Chains , Endless Ending , Good Day to You, Follow Me Album runtime: 13 minutes  Y'all, when I say how excited I am that the second gen groups are still getting wins, that's not even the half of it. As a side note, as I was setting up this review, Fiction  by B2ST started playing, specifically the Orchestra Version, which is hands down an unbelievably gorgeous song and I have it in like seven playlists between the regular and the orchestra version. Congrats, Highlight! Whoo! Jazzy. If you're new to my reviews, I very much love it when songs have certain instruments. The violin is one of the top frequent flyers for me in that way, but woodwinds, brass, and/or other various stringed instruments also bring me a lot of joy because they add a delicious texture to what would otherwise be a standard affair. They trigger my love of big orchestras and cinematic drama. In other words, I love movie soundtracks. This doesn't go that far ...

Release date: 2025 April 28 Album tracklist: Chains , Endless Ending , Good Day to You, Follow Me Album runtime: 13 minutes  Am I really behind because this was the pre-release and the album is out now? Yes? Could I have just done the title track and gotten to this one later? Yes. The problem with that, though, is that I'd be delaying doing a song released under the name B2ST for the first time in almost a decade. Which I've already done and don't want to do any longer. Cube giving them back the name B2ST even though they said they were going to keep going by Highlight was one of the best decisions Cube made in the last few years (which also includes giving BTOB their name also, but I digress). Also, I listened to the album yesterday and it scratched an itch for me.  I really love the crackling at the beginning of this song. First of all, it reminds me of my favorite B2ST song ( Fiction ), and second of all, it's an aural clue to go back in time, something important whe...