Just A Little Fangirl Love

  Y'all, I just went down a rabbit hole over INKODE, who we should be getting the second boy group debut announcement from soon. Anyway.  We have three first wins for songs this week! Whoo!!! Congrats to those groups! And I believe one of these may be a first win ever, so that's even cooler! For the extra performances, I went with a pretty recent After School Club with Ep. 664 from 2025 and KickFlip. For the The Show re-run, I'm giving you TOMORROW X TOGETHER back when they were still pretty new in 2021. And the two extra stages for this week went to ifeye and UNCHILD. As always, the links in the spreadsheet go to my reviews of the songs. The link down with ASC goes to the full episode because they get weird when I try to embed them. Happy watching, everyone! Show Champion: &TEAM "We on Fire" MCountdown: Cortis "REDRED" Music Bank: NCT Wish "Ode to Love" Show! Music Core:  NCT Wish "Ode to Love" Inkigayo:  NCT Wish "Ode to ...

Release date: 2026 April 15 Album tracklist: I'll Be There, Hazy (Daisy) , Padam Padam, Touch, Forever Us Album runtime: 14 minutes  The maknae was fifteen at debut, so unfortunately they are on Underage Protocol. If you're new here (welcome! I love to see new faces! Glad to meet you!), Underage Protocol is part of my refusal to support the companies debuting anyone under the age of sixteen or if the group debuts with more than fifty percent of the members under the age of eighteen. The reason for this is, the members of groups often do not have their parents to step in and protect them from predatory adults and being exposed to everything at a young age can mess up the artists (multiple of the ones who debuted at fourteen, for instance, have said that they wished they'd debuted when they were older). I'd love to say I trust the companies to protect them, but that requires a level of faith in companies to be human and not exploitative in a way that I simply cannot trust...

Release Date: 2025 July 16 Album tracklist: loverboy, friend like me, round and round, ifeye (interlude), r u okay? , say moo!, echo Album runtime: 17 minutes  Oh, ifeye. If they'd debuted a few weeks later, I could actually like this group like I want to. Okay, full disclosure, I did see this performed like at KCON LA 2025 before I wrote this, but I tried not to have my reviewing brain on. I will say I was impressed and am sulking because the maknae was fifteen at debut. But can we talk about the album runtime? I had to round up for that number, and it's awful. That's not even an average of two and a half minutes a song. Big, big sigh from me. Also, here's the review I did for their debut song , in case you're curious. So, I'm personally loving the tonal shift I've been hearing away from the milquetoast, elevator BGM sound that a lot of K-Pop has been using a lot lately, especially the girl groups. They're fine on their own occasionally for the sake of ...

Release Date: 2025 April 08 Album tracklist:  NERDY , IRL, BUBBLE UP, NERDY - ENGLISH VERSION Album runtime: 12 minutes  This is apparently a digital mini album, which is interesting for a debuting group and implies a few things. But, I'm only here to judge members' ages, song lengths, and trendiness, as it were. Also, I'm here to gently point out that "ifeye" stands for "Imagine & Find Energetic Young Eyes" which makes about as much sense as "New Establish Style Tempo," but you know? It's fine. Nonsensical acronyms are part of my jam. Okay, but in terms of ages, the eldest (not the leader) turns nineteen this year, which is a little worrisome but it could have been fine except for the fact that the maknae is currently fifteen and turns sixteen next month, which means I go into Underage Protocol, listening once for the instrumental, once for the vocals, and then up to twice for the music video. I'm here to help informed decisions ha...