Just A Little Fangirl Love

  Well, well, well. Another week, another batch of wins. This week is another nearly clean-sweep, this time for the young group, RIIZE. Also, fun win for Jin, which makes it his second win (the first on M Countdown in 2022). All in all, I'm pleased. If the performances show up, then I'll make sure to add them. The After School Club re-run I present to you is fromis_9 from 2018. I hope you enjoy that one. I'm a little impatient for them to have their next comeback under their new company, but I'm waiting.  Show Champion: RIIZE "Fly Up" MCountdown: Jin (BTS) "Don't Say You Love Me" Music Bank: RIIZE "Fly Up" Show! Music Core: RIIZE "Fly Up" Inkigayo: RIIZE "Fly Up" ASC Performance: 20180613 fromis_9 "LOVE BOMB" : The Show: N/A

Release date: 2025 May 19 Album tracklist: Odyssey, Bag Bad Back , Ember to Solar , Fly Up , Show Me Love, Passage, Midnight Mirage, The End of the Day, Inside My Love, Another Life Album runtime: 29 minutes  I've been putting this off because I'm still so deeply angry with SM over their handling of the situation, and I don't think I'd be nearly this angry if they'd just dropped him from the group rather than the bait and switch they pulled. Just dropping him, that's what SM does. Fine. Whatever. But announcing his return and then almost immediately going "Just kidding!", it leaves a bad taste in my mouth and makes me feel so bad for the group and the fans, and him most of all. Anyway, this is their first full album, which normally would be something to celebrate. Whoo. Congrats. More enthusiasm for the wins though! I'm putting this review on Underage Protocol. I'm so annoyed by this song because it's so stinking good. The instrumentals are...

Release date: 2024 September 03 Album tracklist: Combo , Boom Boom Bass, Siren, Impossible, 9 Days, Honestly, One Kiss, Talk Saxy, Love 119 Album runtime: 27 minutes  Ah, RIIZE. The first group to debut after I started listening to K-Pop I was aware of, who immediately caught my attention because Get a Guitar  is an amazing song. And now the one catching my attention again because taking an entire year to release an album? That's a sales pitch, and I am so intrigued. Also, look at the runtime for both this and the entire album. Almost half an hour. That's a proper length.  As expected of them, Combo  features a guitar front and center in the instrumentals. I appreciate this about RIIZE. Ooh, I recently learned some fascinating S. Korean music history regarding rock and the 1970s which explains why the guitar isn't a standard instrument for pop, but also why it's starting to be. This is why I get into things! Because history is so cool! And RIIZE might be helping to c...