Just A Little Fangirl Love

  No notes! I'm just going to have this on the record so that it's done because I'm about a month behind. As always, links in the chart go to my reviews. Show Champion: tripleS "Baby Flower" MCountdown: Treasure "IF I" Music Bank: tripleS "Baby Flower" Show! Music Core: I.O.I "Suddenly" Inkigayo: ILLIT "It's Me" ASC Performance: N/A The Show: N/A The Extra Stage: Samuel "ZIGI-ZIGI-ZIGI"

Release date: 2026 June 01 Album tracklist:  IF I , ZOOM ZOOM, NALLY-NA (HYUNHAYO), DANGER Album runtime: 11 minutes  YG doesn't have the best track record of keeping older groups around and active when they debut a new one. At least with the boy groups they don't actively describe the upcoming group as "the next [insert older group that they've disbanded here]" as they famously did with a pair of their girl groups. So when I heard the announcement about the new boy group debuting this year, y'all I was stressed for Treasure. I'm pleased that they dropped the mini album and I'm also pleased that I haven't heard rumors that they'll go the way of 2NE1, which is just silly considering how much most people love seeing the senior groups interacting with the kids, especially when they're at the same company. Exhibit A: 2PM and Stray Kids. (It would be super fun to have BIGBANG do stuff with Treasure while they're prepping for their tour. Danc...

Given my relative verboseness and frequent rambling, it would be understandable if you're expecting me to ramble about now as well. But I'm not going to! Yet. That'll come at the end. Instead, just enjoy the performances and the winners.  My little comments will show up at the end.  In the meantime, enjoy! performances Alpha Dive One (Intro + FORMULA) BABYMONSTER ( WE GO UP + DRIP ) BOYNEXTDOOR ( Hollywood Action ) Bumsup/Park Bo-gum (Ink Becoming Flesh) Enhypen ( No Doubt + Bad Desire (With or Without You) ) Hearts2Hearts ( FOCUS ) i-dle ( Good Thing ) IVE ( XOXZ + REBEL HEART ) MEOWW ( TURN IT UP ) NCT Wish ( COLOR ) Super Junior ( Express Mode + Mr. Simple + BONAMANA + Sorry, Sorry) Treasure (2025 Free + PARADISE + I WANT YOUR LOVE) TWS ( OVERDRIVE ) Yeonjun (Coma + Talk To You) match-ups Hearts2Hearts X NCT Wish TWS X MEOVV winners Fan's Choice of the Year (Daesang): Enhypen Song of the Year (Daesang): Rosé X Bruno Mars - APT. Fan's Choice Male Top 10 (B...

 Hello, everyone! At some point, I'm going to feel confident enough in my Korean skills to have part of this in Korean, but today and this month is not that point.  So the fabulous, amazing debuts for the month. The ones I covered were AxMxP and IDID for the groups, CxM for the Seventeen subunit, and soloists Haechan of NCT , Jinny of Secret Number , Junhee of A.C.E , and Nana of After School . The only group I didn't cover was DNA , which is a co-ed group. Songs I was looking forward to: CxM- You mean my Seventeen bias is debuting in an official subunit? You're expecting me not to be excited about this? Junhee- I've been looking forward to his solo debut since he dropped the Your Idol cover.  Woodz- First release post-military service I've covered because I was very lazy over the summer? Yes, please. izna- These are my girls, y'all. Strong rappers. Vocals that are consistently supported. Exactly what I'm always looking for. Catch the Young- Y'all, I ...

Release date: 2025 September 01 Album tracklist: EVERYTHING, PARADISE , NOW FOREVER, BETTER THAN ME Album runtime: 12 minutes  I did watch the YG announcement for TREASURE, BABYMONSTER, and BLACKPINK. That is a lot of capitalizations. So I knew this was coming and this was on my list of releases I was curious about for this month. I haven't listened to them a lot, much like I haven't actually listened to a lot of BIGBANG, WINNER, or iKON (again, so many capital letters), but when I like one of their songs, I tend to really, really like it. Plus, the members of TREASURE are all adults now, and that's important because at debut, I couldn't have listened to them (maknae was fifteen). So I came it at a good time. The album doesn't quite hit the desired three minute average, but each song is at least in the 2:50 range, so it could be a lot worse. The title track is the shortest of the bunch, but it could be worse. I'd prefer if all the songs got an extra ten seconds,...

  Well, all sorts of groups got wins this week, along with a Triple Crown! Congrats to all the groups for their first win for the songs! There isn't a single song that won on more than one show this week, which I like for the sake of diversity, and that means lots of different stages to share with you all. Also, three of the wins were with YG affiliated soloists/groups. After School Club had TNX (the group formerly known as The New Six) on, which was cool for them to talk about their new song before it comes out. Also, the amount of times they said something like "We didn't ask the company for permission, but it's fine" was hysterical, and one of the five of them is an absolute character. He's a delight. Also, the MCs on ASC announced this was the final episode of season 1 of ASC, which has lasted for twelve years, so they'll be going on hiatus for a little bit before the next season. So rather than just not include an ASC performance at all, because I can...

Release date: 2025 March 07 Album track list: YELLOW; SARURU; WHATEVER, WHENEVER; LAST NIGHT Album runtime: 13 mi nutes  And TREASURE is back, bringing with them all the capital letters they've stolen! This is a joke, but alternatively, that's a lot of capital letters this album has. I'm very excited for them. It doesn't look like they've dropped a Korean album since 2023, which makes this long overdue even if it is only a four song special mini album. Now that YGE has remembered they're supposed to be promoting their artists, I hope this is only a prelude of more music to come, and that some of those singles get added to mini albums or full albums in the near future. But the song length? Absolutely yes. The instrumentals are delightfully minimalistic. And by delightfully minimalistic, I mean they're so bright and cheerful that even though there's not much going on even as the song reaches the climax, I find myself irresistibly drawn to dancing a little...

Release date: 2025 January 30 Album tracklist:  Hollo , Hollo - Instrumental, Hollo - Drama Version, Hollo - (Drama Version) [Instrumental] Album runtime: 16 minutes  Do I have other songs I should probably be reviewing because they're actual title tracks and not OSTs? Yes. Do I have this and another set up to review instead? Also, yes. But, in my defense, I love Bang Yedam's voice now that I've discovered it, and also this is an OST for my boy Minhyun's newest drama, which I'm obviously going to support because it's Minhyun. Also, I have some options about what to review because this comes with multiple versions, but I think I'm just going to go with the vanilla version. Even though part of me is arguing quite loudly for the drama version instead. I would have been happy with just the piano, but the introduction of the other instruments takes what started off as an incredibly melancholic sound and turns it into something a lot more hopeful. Because the laye...

Release date: 2025 March 07 Album track list:  YELLOW ;  SARURU; WHATEVER, WHENEVER;  LAST NIGHT Album runtime: 13 mi nutes Well, we just got some news on the near future of the group. It's nice that the company remembered that they existed and decided to get them out of the pasture where they'd been retired. I kind of feel like they weren't even locked in the basement. But! YGE needed them, and so they've been returned to work.  This song reminds me so much of Good Time  by Owl City. It's not even funny. I was sitting here for five minutes humming until I could recall lyrics and then one short search later, and I got the song I was thinking of. The instrumentals here are so similar. I'm also reminded of early 00s Disney Channel star pop or late 00s boy band pop with how very bright this song is. The grungy bass popping in to accompany the rapping is a good change of pace within the song, getting it just a little dark and messy to sully the brightness of th...