Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2025 December 22 Album tracklist: Bitter Sweet Album runtime: 3 minutes  This one was not on my schedule of releases, but it's here and I'm very curious about it. But they have now released two songs this year, so that's better than it has been and a little bit of a relief, not enough of one for me to consider them safe but they're releasing music again. You know, this song has a little bit of a traditional vibe to it, especially during the dance break, but that lingers through most of the song. It's all down to instrument choice. I'm not hearing the normal trip of drums/piano/guitar, but what I am hearing are instruments that I swear I've heard in historical dramas, which is my only frame of reference for many of them because unfortunately, my English literature background doesn't give me a lot of historical range, and annoyingly, Asian history for most of my history classes was largely glossed over (except for a few very specific time per...

Release date: 2025 September 8 Album tracklist: Everglow, LIGHTS, BABY BABY, HIGHER Album runtime: 13 minutes  Okay. Well. It appears that this may be the title track? I think? This may also be both her solo debut and her English debut, so that's interesting and exciting for her! I wish her a long and successful career! And I know I just did a review of Secret Number's newest song, but she is a former member who left the group, not an active member, so these are slightly unrelated. It's been a minute since I've said a song was similar to a Disney Channel song, but this one is. The beginning is a little bit more techno than that sound usually is, but it does provide a decent, related contrast to the rest of the song, which is very much rock. There's actually a really good build of energy and progression through the song, with a cute, cheeky little soften to it as a lead-in to the second verse, but the variation through the majority of the song is surprisingly high, ...

Release date: 2025 August 19 Album tracklist: Don't Touch Album runtime: 3 minutes  So other than an OST done for Business Proposal, this review will mean that I've done both of their most recent songs as it's been almost exactly two years since then. Starlight was part of my attempt to make the obvious favoritism for NINE.i for their songs released in August of 2023 a little more diluted, otherwise I wouldn't have done it. And now, two years later, they've released their next song. I don't know about you all, but I'm concerned about that. I do have to give a shout out, though, because even though this is only a single and it's their first release in two years, we didn't get a two-and-a-half minute song. In other words, I have mixed feelings and a lot of concern. However, because four new members have been added to the group, I do have to take a look at ages, to know if I can listen to this  song. Ages are fine. The new maknae turned nineteen this ye...

Release date: 2025 July 23 Album tracklist:  dance with me! Album runtime: 2 minutes  So in an interesting turn of events, I had someone on Threads ask me to review this. Which is interesting. As I just said. The curiosity gave me a really big dopamine hit, I'd just like everyone to know this, so I'm going to do it. I can't promise this will always be the case, but this also isn't the first time (the first one was a message on Tumblr for something that was definitely not kpop, and that one wasn't a full review because of a couple of reasons, but I was still honest about it as I am with all of these.) And even though I have been historically interested in keeping this more strongly Korean than just K-Pop adjacent, I'm not opposed to venturing away from there. So I have some investigating to do on this artist. Be back in a tick. It's gone from interesting to surprising and pleasing, not going to lie. This is flattering. So according to Genius, the artist is a ...

Release date: 2023 August 24 Album tracklist: Starlight , Crazy Love Album runtime: 7 minutes I know literally nothing about this group other than they're a fourth gen girl group. That's it. I have a single song of theirs (it hilariously happens to be this one) in my Junk Drawer playlist, which is filled with songs I just haven't gotten around to listening to, so this will be a nice treat, and also my very first impression of the group. So let's get to it! The song is plagued by much of the same trends that are still going on with girl groups, but this time with a space theme so the airy, floaty vibes actually make sense. One of the cool things about this song is the fact that it takes advantage of a dual speaker system to make the sound of the song bigger without adding anything or actually affecting the volume in anyway. Plus, the song has some very distinct science fiction warbling and warping, and the section where that becomes very blatant is also where the song en...