“Do you remember that plate of prawns I ordered from the hotel?” Leigh-Anne goes on to ask Jade and Perrie as they both fall into giggles at the memory. “I think at the beginning, obviously we were so naive, didn’t know what we signed, got given this advance, thought we were suddenly really rich, and I blew that money within six months, hun. You could’ve saved that and put that as a deposit on a flat or something,’” Jade jokes. “I would say, ‘Hun, don’t spend that advance on a Marbella holiday. I was a bit like, ‘Oh my god, wow! Oh my god, wow!’ at everything, and it just felt so special at the start.”Īs women who’ve seen and experienced more of the world now, is there anything they’d want to tell their younger selves as they entered the industry? “I think I miss how everything was new and fresh and exciting. A brief interlude to reminisce over the nightmare of virtually communicating during the first lockdown distracts us for a moment, but we’re quickly back on track.
“I kind of miss the innocence in a way,” Perrie, 28, says after a few seconds of not realizing that she’s actually on mute and we can’t hear what she’s saying. In those early days, the band was carefree, soaking up this new life as young pop stars. 4 in the US - a traditionally hard market to crack. That’s how naive and young we were.”īut if they were feeling the pressure, it didn’t show - “Wings” became the band's second No. I don’t even think we read our blasted contract when we first got signed. “I don’t think we were really prepared for what we were gonna be catapulted into,” Leigh-Anne, 30, says, looking back at the very start of their career. So they eventually came back in summer 2012 with "Wings" - a song that truly spoke to who they were - and ended the year with the release of their debut album, DNA. However, the focus of this interview is speaking with the remaining members as they celebrate yet another milestone in their career.īut just where do you start when you’re interviewing a band who have been together for a decade and enjoyed success most people can only dream of? Well, from the beginning of course…Īfter becoming the first band to win The X Factor UK back in 2011, Little Mix were given a debut single that wasn't hugely representative of their style. Back in 2020, Jesy Nelson announced her departure from Little Mix, citing mental health reasons. One thing that has changed is the make-up of the group itself. The legacy of Little Mix continues to take form, its magic enduring and its longevity undeniable. Combined, the tracklist has been streamed more than 3.5 billion times on Spotify. 1 hits, 10 top 5 singles, and 16 songs that landed in the top 10. The standard edition of Between Us, due for release on November 12, boasts four No. We’ve really done the damn thing.’”Īnd it’s impossible to argue with that. "But when you actually have to sit down and look at all the tracks and listen to them all for the first time in a while, I was like, ‘Oh, wow, we’ve really done it. "When you're in this industry, every year you do a cycle, you get through it, blah, blah, blah," Jade says. But with hits spanning a decade, it must have been quite the ride reminiscing to choose which songs would make it onto Between Us, the band's upcoming greatest hits album that also offers five new tracks. “I know, she’s bop after bop,” Jade, 28, says. Leigh-Anne Pinnock is off camera tending to her newborn twins when our call starts, while fellow new mom Perrie Edwards is running slightly late, which gives me the perfect opportunity to chew Jade’s ear off about their iconic back catalog before we begin. This is how I find myself on a Friday afternoon in October, wearing a “Wasabi” hoodie and telling Jade Thirlwall for the umpteenth time that Little Mix have only ever served us bangers in the 10 years they’ve been together. The only way it could be made any better, in fact, is by discussing said discography with the women who sang those songs in the first place. As Friday activities go, dissecting the titanic discography of one of the greatest and most successful girl bands in the world is definitely up there with the best.
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