Just A Little Fangirl Love

 I hunted through his discography for a song that would match what I wanted this post to do. For a number of reasons I'll get into in the next post, even though this will be posted on NU'EST's anniversary, I'm not doing one of theirs then. Instead, I wanted to do an RM song because BTS has an album coming out in the next week and I wanted to honor the friendship between the two groups, and because I finally get to pull JR's photocard off my enlistment wall next week as well, I wanted to do RM specifically. Both of them are rapper leaders, neither of them is the eldest member of their group. They debuted around the same time, they're both Kims, they're less than a year apart in age, and because their groups had near-disbandment-causing struggles early in their careers, they have that connection as well. And they ended up being at the same company, technically, when HYBE bought Pledis. You can actually see the spike in sales for NU'EST because RM would not...

Release date: 2025 May 02 Album tracklist: Stop The Rain (Tablo X RM) Album runtime: 3 minutes  Tablo has been all over the place lately, working with a ton of different, younger artists. And I initially wasn't interested in taking a look at this song because of my general disinterest in rap which I know EPIK HIGH and RM are pretty well known for, until I saw the interview Tablo did where he explained why the song was getting released now instead of waiting for another month or so.  The genre: soft. This song isn't warm and soft though, it's got icy pinpricks sprinkled throughout because even though this is such a soft song, it's not supposed to be a comfortable one. The song provides an excellent counterpoint to the lyrics, soft, prickly, firm, all at the same point, but the furthest thing from aggressive it could possibly be. I'm trying not to focus on the lyrics, but even then, there's a vulnerability to the way the instrumentals just keep repeating, interrup...