Just A Little Fangirl Love

Release date: 2026 October 02 Album tracklist:  너란 섬 , 너란 섬 - Instrumental Album runtime: 8 minutes Oof, that's a long song. Excellent. This was apparently the Yeosu World Island Expo Theme Song, but it wasn't actually officially released until just now. I think.  The very start of the instrumental reminds me of one of the opening themes for Seven Deadly Sins, and then it becomes a lot more cheerful than I was expecting. And it sounds like there may be a little bit of organ work going on, or at least the synthesizer or the keyboard has been made to sound like an organ. We've got chimes. We've got a very prominent guitar that takes the dominant position for the aural landscape with the drums at a very close second. But this is very cheerful, and I'm happy we got the instrumental only track because then we can just hang out on it for almost four minutes. Bless the songwriters. I think my favorite thing about his voice is the fact that I don't think he could hide h...

 The turnaround on this one is quick because I am not going to be behind for October. I have not planned my October posts, technically, but I do have a shortlist of twenty songs that I've been refining for about three months. We are starting with fun because I like fun and I think we need fun. It's the most wonderful time of the year! With the kids trick or treating and everyone meeting to scream from a spook! It's the most wonderful time of the year! I did almost do Nightmare instead because I love that song, but we need the fun more. Not that I don't love this song, but I was recently reminded of how much I love that song. SHINee debuted in 2008 under SM Entertainment as a five-member group. They're the reason for the Halloween costume contest at SM, which has resulted in some fantastic costumes over the years, although Key's are definitely consistently at the top or almost the top. Married To The Music is the title track of SHINee's fourth repackaged al...

Release date: 2026 September 28 Album tracklist: 360 (Feat. MABELZ), YueBei, I See You, Dexire, Inward, 4give, 9 Album runtime: 14 minutes  Did he give us another addition to the horror songs he previously has dropped for us in his solo stuff? Both Psycho and Limbo are in my Halloween playlist, I want you to know. This is an odd set of tracks with almost half of them under a minute. It's an interesting choice. Removing those three, we're looking at about a three-minute runtime for the average. Jun, I know what kind of choreography this song needs because that is a strong beat right there. THe instrumental also gets sparkly at the end with what is possibly a bridge. It's a fun combination that does a lot for the song in its variability because otherwise it's more of a basic dance track, which is a crime against his talent. There's a lot of repetition is what I'm saying. But the beat is doing a lot of the heavy lifting because this obviously has the choreography t...

Release date: 2026 August 19 Album tracklist: BiiiG Album runtime: 02  minutes  One of the singularly best concerts I've ever seen. Full stop. Even my mom, who doesn't listen to them, said she'd absolutely see them again without hesitation. For the record, this absolutely sounds like a BIGBANG song and it doesn't sound out of place in their discography. It's a bit clingy with a simultaneously grungy guitar settled underneath the metallic clanging. But the entire song isn't that way. We've got variation and multiple sections, which is especially ideal given that this song is not even three minutes long. That's the least BIGBANG thing about this song. The introduction is interesting, before the squeal and scratch that heralds the start of the vocals, and it's also oddly James Bond. I don't know how else to describe it. Good news, they're not doing the mumble rap thing. Everyone sounds exactly like they should and Daesung has his moment where he...

Release date: 2026 August 03 Album tracklist: ABD, SUN KISS , Echo, Flip-Flop Girl, GRLS Album runtime: 15 minutes  I don't understand why HYBE didn't have this group debut at Pledis where HSS already is. Also, for all the news articles that mention him connected to After School, Seventeen, and TWS, I understand why you're not mentioning Pristin. They made a huge splash and are still angrily beloved, but they were short-lived. But NU'EST survived ten years and near disbandment just for y'all to erasure the impact they had? Really? I'm so tired of the NU'EST erasure. I actually accelerated my plan of when to post this because the backlog is large and in charge. But then I found out that this is almost a proper Pledis group and the company Pledis's first subsidiary after twenty years. The company has issues and I'm a little peeved over certain things that have happened recently. However. They are NU'EST's little sisters for all intents and purp...

 Alright, Champions, buckle up. I'm full of fire and vinegar over this song. If you remember back in June, I posted One Spark by TWICE because I watched a video on YouTube of the worst releases of 2024 and I took particular umbrage at One Spark being on the list (there was an ITZY release there as well, which I also am incensed about, but I still have to figure out how to bridge the regular reviews with the Expanded Offerings posts, since we're now officially at a time when I could start covering songs I've already reviewed). It was not the only song on there that I immediately wanted to yell about, but I waited for an opportune moment. To the person who made the video, this song is not "boring, idk". The month of Spookening felt like an ideal placement for BADVILLAIN in the same vein that true crime is technically classified under horror, and as the song is now two years old, I mentally slotted it into October. However. Then I decided that I wanted to have Septem...

Release date: 2026 August 20 Album tracklist:  WAVE (feat. Joohoney) Album runtime: 2  minutes  Y'all may not know him by his name, but you probably know who he is. This is Baby Shark Boy. It's funny that this song blew up like this. I remember being at Girl's Camp singing Baby Shark back in 2008, which was the same year that he was born. Wow, I suddenly feel old. This isn't actually his full debut because he debuted in a kid's group back in 2020 in something that in concept reminds me of the Mickey Mouse Club. But this is his official solo debut. Huh. I didn't realize Joohoney was involved in this. We've got a pretty mild, bubbly instrumental for most of the song with the "Baby shark doo doo" that made him famous popping up occasionally, which also provides much of the very bubbly sound to the instrumental. The shift and the key change at the end turns the song into an ending song from something like High School Musical. This is a very bright song...