Just A Little Fangirl Love

  I'm getting closer to being caught up.  The links down in the chart, as always, go to my reviews I've written for the songs. Show Champion: Hearts2Hearts "Lemon Tang" MCountdown: LE SSERAFIM + ILLIT + KATSEYE "ICONIC BY MISTAKE" Music Bank: ATEEZ "BAD" Show! Music Core: aespa "LEMONADE" Inkigayo: I.O.I "Suddenly" ASC Performance: N/A The Show: RESCENE "Pretty Girl" The Extra Stage: BABYMONSTER "I LIKE IT"

  First wins for songs this week! Whoo! As always, links in the spreadsheets go to my reviews! Enjoy! Show Champion: RIIZE "Do your dance" MCountdown: LE SSERAFIM + ILLIT + KATSETE "ICONIC BY MISTAKE" Music Bank: RIIZE "Do your dance" Show! Music Core: I.O.I "Suddenly" Inkigayo: N/A ASC Performance:  N/A The Show:  N/A The Extra Stage: EPEX "ECHO"

Release date: 2026 June 12 Album tracklist: ICONIC BY MISTAKE , ICONIC BY MISTAKE, ICONIC BY MISTAKE (Instrumental) Album runtime: 9 minutes  This is going to be the only comment I make in regards to this. Three of the NewJeans members have been officially back since December. This was released in June. I'd love to ask someone that is part of the decision-making Powers That Be what their rationale was for that exclusion when that would have been a great way to show unity with the groups and start the healing process with the fans. I wasn't going to do this song (I know, I know, chase me off with pitchforks later please) because there have been songs released by one of the groups that I didn't like enough that it's turned me off from all of the songs attached to that group. But the song now has two wins, so I have to review it for my weekly wins posts that I'm wildly behind on. I want to like this song. For the record. I want to be proven wrong. And everyone is offic...

Release date: 2025 April 30 Album tracklist: Gnarly Album runtime: 2 minutes  This one is going to be quick y'all. Reminder that the group still has a minor. Also, congrats, HYBE. For once, the 2 and a quarter minute runtime works in the song's favor. Mature language warning. There is a clean version, but... If I could get rid of the lyrics, I think I'd like the song. Abysmal runtime aside, it's got kind of a basketball game vibe in places, designed for energy and to pump you up, get you to move. Maybe even toss in a sassy hair flip or two. I was definitely responding well to the instrumentals, and then my brain would actually catch the lyrics and flinch.  I wouldn't even know where to begin with this. I don't think any of them were even alive when the word gnarly was actually used in the vernacular regularly. I'm not sure how much I was alive for it and I remember the 90s. Putting that aside, the things that are being described as gnarly... aren't gnarl...