Just A Little Fangirl Love

  Another week, another batch of music show wins! This week we got a full set of wins and only one repeat, so that's lots of stages I get to share with you all! Excitement! And four of these wins are first wins for the song, so that's even cooler! Whoo!  For the ASC re-run, I didn't mean to pick another debut. I picked one at random, went "Oh, Seungmin is a host. Oh! This was for NATURE's debut!" Fun times had by all. Three of the members had been in South Korea less than a year, which was cool to learn, and their 2x speed choreography was adorable. A little bit of chaos, a little bit of leggy coltish energy (yes, I know the difference between colt and filly but it's easier and less awkward to say coltish rather than fillyish, which spell check is telling me is not a word), but overall, precious. Also, them singing their debut song in a couple of different languages was cool. Show Champion: P1Harmony "DUH!" MCountdown: MEOVV "Hands Up" ...

  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 May 12 Album tracklist: HANDS UP, DROP TOP , MEOW , BODY, TOXIC , LIT RIGHT NOW Album runtime: 17 minutes  Congrats on the win! We're on Underage Protocol until Ms. Ella turns 18 in December of 2026! I don't have a lot to say here other than this is part of the April batch I wasn't getting to yet, but it's fine! I'm curious about this song! I like that it's three minutes long! Sorry about the shouting! There's a distinctly Indian vibe going on here with some of the instruments, which I don't know how SoPoEc approved it is, but I like the sound. The song has a good, quick pace that's quite solid and avoids the current trend of languidity. Reminds me a bit of Bang  by After School with the kind of beat way that the . Its method of softening is to remove some of the instrumentals rather than slowing down or changing what you're actually hearing. It's remarkably stable that way. I'm a little annoyed that this has to be unde...

Release date: 2024 November 18 Album tracklist: TOXIC,  BODY Album runtime: 5 minutes  I'm glad at least the title track is the length it is. So, when I originally reviewed their debut , I wasn't as paranoid about ages because I didn't realize Max and Taemin situations were as common as they are, which is nauseating. MEOVV, thankfully, does not have a Max or Taemin situation. But she was still only fifteen at debut, and is still only fifteen because she doesn't turn sixteen until next month. But I really liked their debut song. The first twenty or so seconds of the song have incredibly subtle instrumentals with a very low pitch to contrast the feminine voice singing, and then an occasional tink  is added. This continues for roughly another twenty seconds before everything smooths out and the instrumentals transition to simply a piano. All of this adds up to the first minute or so of the song being completely dominated by the voices which are allowed to shine in a way we...

Release date: 2024 September 06 Album tracklist: MEOW Album runtime: 3 minutes I'm always tentatively excited to see new groups debut. In this case, I'm not sure about the relationship between their company, TheBlackLabel, and YG. I know they're closely linked, but I'm not positive about what specifically is going on there. Oh, well. Hopefully MEOVV and BABYMONSTER get along. It would probably make life uncomfortable if they don't. I like that they vibe like a boy group. They're still feminine, but they're not girly, which is a change of pace, welcome for me though there isn't anything wrong with the girlier groups. They actually remind me a lot of 2NE1, without the particular timely trappings that come with a 2009 debut. But it's like if 2NE1 had debuted this year instead of 2009, stylistically. To be more clear, the eyeliner is not nearly as thick with MEOVV, they include the shouting thing of fifth generation K-Pop, but otherwise there are some st...