Just A Little Fangirl Love

  This is an exciting week for the wins! We've got some first wins for songs, which I'm loving, but more excitingly, we had two different milestones happen! First up, we had a group's first win! Congrats to idntt on that all important first win! And with the subunit's debut as well! That's so cool! Second, we had a triple crown from Inkigayo! Congrats to Hwasa for that! It was also girl group domination this week, so that's pretty cool, ranging from second gen (Apink) to fifth gen (ILLIT). I like the range here. Continuing with my stubborn insistence on supporting the smaller groups, this week's After School Club re-run is ATBO on ep. 576 from 2023. I'm not happy that they've been disbanded, but I hope that the members are doing well despite this. For this episode, we didn't have the full list of members as two of them were participating in King of the Masked Singer at the time. I found a really interesting performance on The Show from earlier...

Release date: 2026 January 05 Album tracklist: Gwang, Fear, STING (feat. Muhammed Ali) , Push (feat. Rei (IVE)) , Bite, Touch the sky (feat. Tiger JK), NO BRAIN NO PAIN Album runtime: 18 minutes  I'm glad to see his album is out, because I know that there are a lot of Monbebes who were looking forward to it. That makes me excited, even if I'm not as familiar with his work. He does remind me a lot of Hoshi from Seventeen, so I'm inclined to see him positively because I adore Hoshi and given the general friendship between the two groups, I'm also inclined to look forward to anything Monsta X does. While this is not the shortest song on the album, which does take a bit of work, the title track is still under two-and-a-half minutes. This has that very specific BMP and beat that makes for an excellent work out song. This one feels like it could be a weightlifting song specifically, because there's a weight to the song that is so wonderfully contrasted with the whistling....

Release date: 2026 January 05 Album tracklist: Gwang, Fear,  STING (feat. Muhammed Ali) ,  Push (feat. Rei (IVE)) , Bite, Touch the sky (feat. Tiger JK), NO BRAIN NO PAIN Album runtime: 18 minutes  So far so good with this song. It is shorter than three minutes, but barely, which does bode well for the album as a whole if the pre-release is already this long. Fingers crossed. It's a weird kind of stress doing a pre-release for an album that will be released in the new year, but I'm excited it's for him. From what I understand, he's one of those artists that is really good in just about every position you can have them in, and he's a resident hype man for the group.  I hit play on this song and almost immediately froze. It was of course accompanied by a disbelieving smile. We've got the bed springs sound effect, which is a bold choice and honestly tells me what I need to know about a song in a language I'm not even close to being fluent in. Other notable elem...