Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2025 March 27 Album track list: Wakey Wakey Album runtime: 3 mi nutes  Lucy did an OST, so I'll definitely be doing that once I get breathing space back, but in the meantime, their maknae is militarying and will return next  March, and they're dropping a pre-release for their album being released this month. If you've spent any previous time with my reviews, you know how much I love this band. If this is the first time you've heard of them, spoiler alert, they have a violinist and I'm in love. I'm not pleased about the run time, though. This song goes heavier with the piano/keyboard than we normally get from this group, and there are either chimes or a triangle being included with this. Very little violin, which saddens me exceedingly, but I'm intrigued by the unusual instruments we're hearing. It's cute. I just kind of want to bask in the sound going on here for the moment.  Their main vocalist has such an incredible and distinct voice...

Release date: 2025 January 12 Album tracklist:  Into the Day,  Into the Day - Inst. Album runtime: 4 minutes  I love this band. I love how active they are. I worry slightly about how active they are, and I'm now in almost constant worry about about their violinist because it's been a bit since the last we heard him. But, good news they have an instrumental track so I'll know in probably about thirty or so seconds if the violinist is back.  And he is. The violinist is back. I cannot quite describe to you how excited I am for the violinist to be back. Welcome back, Shin Yechan. I don't know what you were doing, but I'm glad you're back. If it was a rest, I hope you rested well. It's like an explosion of joy when the violin comes into play, honestly. That could be me projecting, in which case, there's my bias exposure, but after how soft and sweet the piano is at the start, functionally, the way the violin is introduced feels like it should be intended to d...

Release date: 2024 December 13 Album tracklist: A New Chapter , A New Chapter (Inst.) Album runtime: 6 minutes  Just the simple fact that Lucy released a new single is enough for me to take notice. The fact that they did an OST? This delights me to no end. I love this band. They're incredible and another of my healers that I've been collecting.  The background vocals are actually included with the instrumentals, which means I don't have to feel guilty about including them in this section. You don't normally hear this much energy from an OST, even though there's still something ludicrously comforting about their sound. Apparently they've done quite a few OSTs over the last four years since they debuted, and I'm curious to know if they managed to bring this same energy each and every time. I don't understand how they do it. There's a long stretch where it's just the bass guitar and the drums, mostly just pulsing out the beat, but they don't go ...

Release date: 2024 December 01 Album tracklist:  She's Smiling , She's Smiling - Instrumental Album runtime: 8 minutes  I one hundred percent happy wiggled when I saw they released another single. I love this band. The violin is a great addition to the normal band instruments, and I love it so much. Also, just the instrumental? Be still, my soul. And the song length is magnificent. I'm just throwing that out there. They're so bright and happy, but with such a lovely gentleness to them. I find myself automatically smiling while I listen to this, even though I'm watching an historical drama that is more or less a soap opera where 3/4 of the named cast is dead by the end of it, and the one character has started poisoning herself to frame the main heroine. She's not  smiling right now. That was a very bad joke, and I would apologize, but I also think it's funny. But you know what I'm noticing a distinct lack of in these instrumentals? A violin, the thing I l...

Release date: 2023 August 17 Album tracklist: Hot!, Haze , Magic, So What Album runtime: 15 minutes I thought I'd do another August 2023 release, and saw that Lucy had an EP drop that month! I'm sure it's become fairly obvious by now that I've become a really big fan of theirs. Any excuse to listen to them, I will 100% take. This is ballad rock at its finest. BTOB could have been this. BTOB almost was this. Maybe not with the violin, which is an incredibly important part of Lucy's sound, but Lucy is essentially the actual band version. Healers. I have to hand it to them. They've found their niche and they're sticking to it, as they should. I don't know what it is about the combination of the violin with the standard band arrangement, but,  wow,  does it work. I really like how the song is bookended by the quiet guitar solo with the powerful, emotive instrumentals in the middle. They just really throw everything they have into their singing, don't the...

Release date: 2024 October 23 Album tracklist: So Nice Album runtime: 4 minutes  I'm so glad that Falling Flower appeared in one of my recommendations so I could realize how much I love Lucy. That pun was entirely unintentional, but I'm going to own it anyway, because unfortunately for everyone else, I think I'm funny. I have no idea of the context behind this song, but Spotify suggested it for me. I looked at the artist and said "A Lucy song? Yes, please and thank you." GMF apparently stands for Grand Mint Festival, which sounds familiar and my brain has it attached to NU'EST, or one of the members, for some reason. Maybe one of them performed at it last year. Who knows? Regardless, Lucy is quickly becoming an automatic listen band for me, and I need everyone to know that they're amazing. That very start of the opening sounds an awful lot like my favorite of the opening songs for the anime Seven Deadly Sins , which immediately catches my attention and m...

 The official start of this little music review blog! I'm proud of it. And, again, thank you for everyone who has read even a single post so far, even if you aren't reading this one. I am simply happy and grateful and will endeavor to continue this honesty with love and recognition of the hard work of the artists. And for the one person who seems to be reading every single one, thank you and I love you. You make my morning every day. September of 2024 saw a couple of debuts, a re-debut, and some comebacks I was very much looking forward to, as well as some I would have been looking forward to had I been listening to the group/artist already. The ones I personally was emotionally invested are as follows: Vahn (NINE.i): They were the first group I saw in person, and the reason I watched Boy's Planet, after the fact of course because I didn't get into K-Pop until after ZB1 had already debuted. I love their voices, and I have yet to run into a song I didn't like by them...

  Release date: 2024 August 14 Album tracklist: Villain , Complex, Doggaebi Dance, Burn it, Falling Flower Album runtime: 20 minutes I was initially going to skip this review because at this point, it's kind of far back, but also, because I'm almost positive that another track from the album will be on my top listens of the month, it feels disingenuous to include that one in a monthly review without having reviewed the title track. So I've backed myself into a corner; though if the one I love this month is any indication, I'm going to absolutely adore this song. OF COURSE I LOVE IT. THEY'RE A BAND. Actually, what's funny is the instrumentals remind me of an anime theme song. Some of the same chords and rhythms. I appreciate that. Not that they did it on purpose specifically for me. But, even ignoring that, it still sounds like a theme song. And I love theme songs. And there's an instrumental break, which I think all songs should have, even if the group isn...