Just A Little Fangirl Love

 While I wait for The Form to fill up a little bit more, I'm going to return to the Tumblr poll I dropped that one time that gave me My Pace by Stray Kids to do because that's what y'all voted on. Second place was the lovely Dreamcatcher. I'm delighted by this. You mean I get to do one of my spooky girl groups? Yes, please. Always a pleasure. What's funny about this particular song (and the reason why I started looking into Dreamcatcher in the first place is that the very first time I heard this song, it was actually a stage from  The Show on the livestream that THE K-POP (AKA the YouTube channel that The Show was attached to) has running basically all the time. And it was only like the last fifteen seconds of the song, but I was hooked. Done. Sold. And now I'm hunting down their albums. It's crazy how things turn out. I know that one of the songs I've done recently had a producer or songwriter who has worked on a lot of Dreamcatcher songs (part of ...

Release date: 2026 January 07 Album tracklist: X O, My Cyberlove ; Canary ; Cocktail Dress; Limoncello; Teeny Tiny Heart; Love Potion; Heart Tea Bag; Hide & Seek; Loving You! Album runtime: 25 minutes  A b-side from this album had its music video dropped either yesterday or the day before, so that's the prompting to get my distracted self to actually do this one now. I think, if I remember the last song I reviewed for her correctly, that I do like her voice. There are a couple of songs on this album that have my attention a little bit and I'm curious about, so after I finish this review, I'm likely to go and listen to some of them.  I don't necessarily know what I was expecting from this song, but this is a lot softer than I was expecting. It was a surprise. It kind of reminds me of a less guitar focused early Taylor Swift instrumental, which is fascinating to be hearing in a new song twenty years later. I haven't been following her new music very closely since ...

Release date: 2026 January 14 Album tracklist: Ferris wheel Album runtime: 7 minutes  Well, well, everyone. Hello! The ever so lovely band ONEWE has dropped a new single! I've enjoyed what I've heard from them so far, though they're not one that I've actively sought out to listen bigger chunks of their discography yet. But I am glad that I went digging through upcoming releases, because I found out that this is actually a pre-release! I love that we get the instrumental for this. The use of the bells makes it sound almost a little Christmassy, but at the same time there's a very festival vibe to that opening. It actually reminds me of when I was little when we lived on the farm, and the neighborhood kids would get to go on sleigh rides because my neighbor two miles down the highway had a gorgeous sleigh his grandfather had made by hand that he'd have his (award-winning) Belgian draft horses pull. So there's a very nostalgic sense to the song for me, but at t...

Release date: 2026 January 12 Album tracklist: FORMULA , FREAK ALARM , Raw Flame, Chains, Never Been 2 Heaven, Cinnamon Shake Album runtime: 18 minutes  I recognize at least two of those titles as being from the survival show, but I also cannot remember what either of them sound like. I'll probably take a listen to the whole thing, especially because I can, what with all of the members being adults and whatnot. Congrats on the debut, everyone! Whoo! This is the most hip-hop sounding track that I've heard in a while. It also feels very 90s hip-hop. But it's an interesting choice to start off the debut song a cappella. Regardless of whether or not I like that choice, it's a bold one and I like that. I'm struggling a little to get a sense of what kind of choreography this is going to have because the different sections are so disparate. The amount that the song softens is surprising as well. I guess I'll have to wait until the music video. But I do have to give kud...

  And the music shows are officially back with new episodes, which means new stages and new wins! Whoop whoop! Although there's only actually one song on this list of wins that is a new release. Some of them on here are months old, which is kind of fantastic. I expect to see newer songs moving forward, but for now, this is a good last hurrah for some of them. Unless they get more wins. For the After School Club performance, I've picked EVERGLOW, ep. 475 from 2021. The vocals on those members. Whoo. They're also delightfully chaotic and I was entertained watching them (also, they got a win for this song on The Show, which continues to prove my point). For the past The Show stage, I picked one for WEi. And while I normally would have picked another stage from one of the shows this week, last week while I was wandering around looking for stages, I found this one from ATEEZ's debut song after I'd already picked one for last week. So, I put that one for this week, which ...

 Every group that debuts, no matter the size of the company, regardless of whether this is their first group or their twentieth, is significant. When you have a group debuting after a major player in the game, there are two routes the company can take: ignore that or acknowledge it. Pledis has, historically, used their debuted groups to introduce their debuting ones. We saw that with After School introducing NU'EST, NU'EST introducing Seventeen, and now Seventeen introducing TWS. It's possible that Seventeen also introduced Pristin, but as they're no longer an active group, it would be difficult for Pristin to have introduced TWS. Still, I like that Pledis does that. I needed something a bit lighter, and this recently got submitted erroneously as a Greatest Hits post, but while this is a  single, it's not the lead  single. It's fine though! If something gets put into the wrong category, well, I can nudge it back into the correct one. The important thing is that ...

Release date: 2026 January 12 Album tracklist: Rockstar (DK Solo), Blue , Guilty Pleasure, Silence, Dream Serenade (Seungkwan Solo), Prelude of love Album runtime: 19 minutes Well, the day has come, everyone. The main vocalists of Seventeen have arrived with the debut of their own subunit and that means their enlistments have officially been slated into position. At least in my head. I don't know if they've gotten their dates yet, especially since Seungkwan theoretically wouldn't need to go this year, but the pattern persists. Also, I have to laugh a little, because you could take thirty seconds from Seungkwan's song and give it to DK's, and Seungkwan's would still be over four minutes. As far as the title track goes, it's a healthy three-and-a-half minutes. I'm so excited about this one because good vocals are what give me life and considering both of them have voices that literally made my knees buckle listening to them live, as long as they have a goo...