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Yeah we really should have had a ‘10 Years At The Top’/‘Giving You Everything’ style documentary or a ‘Night in with Little Mix’ type show during this campaign.

It will be a Zoom interview and we will deal.

How has it almost been 8 years since they were active? Come on Rochelle! Do it for the gays. :(

I wonder if Jesy’s problem is that she’s surrounded by enablers who make excuses for her and refuse to acknowledge the issue and instead try shut down any criticism and change the subject? There’s nothing music related to discuss with this woman. She will never release an album. It’s been six months and she hasn’t even released a second single. Her music career is over. Blackfishing is all she has.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc3NGrPpPLH/?ut...38-6060416b2f11 Speechless. She's darker than ever in this and her last photos posted. And NADINE COYLE HAVING 'LIKED' THIS VIDEO. :lol:

Nah, sorry but I agree with Yobnedor. It's a really nice moment but (ugh, I'm gonna get slated for this) it's annoying when people try and thrust their proposals into concerts. It just seems that it's done to get the artists attention and to get a shout out and always ends up interrupting part of the show which this video proves. I'd be annoyed if Secret Love Song was my favourite song and I'd travelled to hear it performed live and half of it wasn't sang. You pay a ticket for a reason.

Low key think she's changed her mind on the break. She was calling it the last ever tour on the opening night and now she's constantly crying and saying that. :lol:

Love this. Respect to her! https://www.popsugar.co.uk/celebrity/camila...nd-48816612/amp

I'll be honest I did criticise their choreo lately but I've not been a fan of much of their new routines. Ever since the LM5 tour the routines to the uptempos have looked very 'The Saturdays' - particularly the way they changed the original Power and Salute choreo to just standing still and waving their arms around. It killed the energy of the songs for me. What I will say though is, let's be brutally fair here, you can still respect the girls reasons and still be disappointed. Nobody is blaming the girls here. They've delivered high energy performances since 2011 and they still nail choreo on Sweet Melody and other tracks.....but watching them stand still for the first three uptempos is still a shame. Maybe it was a setlist issue and they should have changed the order around but it's quite jarring and something like Confetti or the DJ collab could have swapped with Heartbreak Anthem which could have been more of a 'end of show party' type thing instead.

James Arthur was the one that they knocked off number 1 and he was frantically Tweeting the download link during the midweeks even though he had already been number 1 for a few weeks before their release. Apparently he had Retweeted something rude about Shout Out To My Ex as well but it was quickly deleted (I remember reading this on Popjustice during release week) and I'm gonna try search to find it. OneRepublic performed on X-Factor the same night as the girls I think and Ryan Tedder made this comment on Twitter - Then backtracked and said the Tweet was about something political. He also Retweeted a fan saying that OneRepublic's song would have been bigger if they performed in their boxer shorts. Again, he deleted it but the screengrab is still online and some forums. GRL Tweeted '#ShoutOutToUglyHeart' from the main group account and I believe that they also used Simone's account to do the hashtag as well. Jazzy also Tweeted something which was deleted. There's still a couple articles about it.

Great idea for a thread! They've got so many AMAZING performances. 1. Shout Out To My Ex on X-Factor 2016. I love how they literally drove into their imperial phase with this performance. As soon as they got out of that car they were on top of the UK music scene for the next year. Everything just fell into place with this performance - Perrie's lyrics leaking before, the news that Zayn dumped her via text leaking, the Get Weird era before restoring their popularity and teasing the public for just how big and exciting they were about to get. It's not my favourite song and their vocals weren't perfect (Perrie always sounds awful on the middle 8 and Leigh's lip syncing was so obvious) but the atmosphere and context of the release was electric. They debuted at number 1 and stayed there for three weeks and got James Arthur, One Republic and GRL so pissed off about it. :lol: 2. Wings on One Love Manchester 2017. Again, context was everything here. This was one of the biggest TV broadcasts of the UK (almost 15M viewers at it's peak) and featured the biggest acts in the world. The fact that Little Mix joined a lineup consisting of Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Black Eyed Peas showed how massive and popular they were at the time. It was probably one of their best vocal performances and the harmonies and crowd interaction at the end with the audience singing the middle 8 back and waving their hands in unison showed that these girls could handle - and deserved - huge crowds like that all the time. 3. Sweet Melody on Jonathan Ross 2020. Most of it was lipped but the water splashing, the solar ring behind them, the fire streaks, the dark outfits and the choreography showed that even as a 3 piece the girls were f***ing incredible. This is what the Confetti tour performance should have been like. 4. Black Magic/Sax with Fleur East 2015. I was torn between this and their other performance on that series but seeing them perform on the final at Wembley was pretty exciting because they were slowly transitioning into huge stars with this campaign. They were finally breaking out and winning people over and there was no longer any worries they could be 'dropped' or 'split' after the underwhelming Salute era. 5. Touch (at home) in lockdown 2020. Seeing them harmonise with eachother and know eachother so well that they could perform like that through ZOOM was crazy. Any other artist in the industry could adjust to home performances and lockdown stuff easy but Little Mix were the only group in the industry and it was kinda fascinating that for the first time in years they were no longer 'together' all the time and that they, just like everyone else, had to see eachother through webcams and microphones. They smashed it.

I mean, they're definitely close friends and will support eachother but the bottom line is they've done nothing but Little Mix for 11 years and have already accomplished everything they wanted as a group. If Jade becomes a successful solo artist or Leigh gets bigger acting roles or Perrie's clothing range takes off or whatever then they're not going to drop that to go back to Little Mix again. They'll definitely get back together at SOME POINT but come on. If one of them gets a smash single and successful campaign they're going straight back to the studio for album number 2 just like Harry Styles will never do a 1D reunion until he's missing the top 40 with his singles and Camila will never crawl back to Fifth Harmony until she can no longer scrape hit singles by latching on to Ed Sheeran.

Kelsey was on Loose Women today. xiq1OjWK5MA

Is there a sales update? I wonder if this will reach 300K before Confetti…

This was SUCH a comforting read. (But let's be honest if any of them have a big solo career there's no way they'll reunite in 2 years)

I haven't watched the video yet but I'd say from watching most performances from each show the majority of it sounds exact same (especially Woman Like Me) and the only obviously live sections are the ballads.

Honestly, I'm gutted. I watched them on X-Factor back in 2011 before I had even turned 18 years old. I listened to the MP3's of 'I'm Like A Bird' and 'Super Bass' while I sat anxiously outside my first Christmas temp job for HMV and remember being on Digital Spy Forums when Jesy was being absolutely slated for her physical appearance. This genuinely feels like a lifetime ago to me and reminds me of just how long this group have been in my life and how I have strong personal memories associated with each of their releases. I've never been an adult and not had Little Mix active and releasing music. Wings was played on college campus, How Ya Doin' was so many peoples voicemail message when I worked in my first cold calling job, Secret Love Song helped me through a very dark unrequited love experience I was suffering at the time, I worked night shift when Shout Out To My Ex premiered and I remember walking around the city centre at 3am playing it for the first time, Bounce Back came out after a major surgery and stanning and obsessing over that release and their switch to RCA gave me some excitement in a very mundane recovery, Sweet Melody going to number 1 brightened up a very dark and lonely lockdown week and Heartbreak Anthem became my song of the summer last year. They've just ALWAYS been there. They've always delivered bops and gave me something to look forward to. Talking about their music, videos, artwork, interviews, performances etc constantly has been a great source of escapism and a great interest for me. As much as I'm pissed off I got banned from Popjustice, the huge album threads there have been really fascinating to read over the years. It hurts even more because they're the last girl group of the sales generation. Girl groups just can't break out in the streaming era. Little Mix and Fifth Harmony were probably the last Western groups we'll see for a LONG time and that's heartbreaking. PS - It's really just incredible how everything worked out like it did. Four girls auditioning as solo artists, being put in seperate groups and then being put together as a 4 piece by the judges and not only clicking on a personality level (hilarious accents and voices, extremely down to earth, self deprecating jokes and no egos) but to harmonise so well, have their voices blend so well and to LOOK great visually. They're all the same bloody height too! Then not only do they win the X-Factor but they have a consistant run of sell out tours, top ten platinum singles and platinum albums for their entire career. Aside from a couple of duds (Word Up, Little Me and One I've Been Missing and I guess the Between Us singles) they've had smash after smash after smash. I've never saw anyone other than Ed Sheeran have so much hits. They were just perfect. They ticked every box. They could sing better than other girl groups, they could outperform them, they had more international success than most (besides Spice Girls), they were likeable and hilarious and full of personality in interviews, they had a great image, they managed to last twice as long as most other groups and they managed to have that bit of cultural impact and connection with the public that so many other artists failed to achieve. I mean, Jesy leaving the group was a huge news story and got millions of likes on Instagram. Leigh and Perrie's pregnancy announcements crossed a million too. Jesy's Insta with Nicki was on the 6 o clock news! I don't think a girl group will ever achieve what they did. Their career has been beautiful. Truly amazing being a fan of them and I'm going to miss them.

I always felt a bit embarrassed and annoyed that the only other time Kelly got to see them perform live (after Move on X-Factor USA which was amazing) was Bounce Back on The Voice in Australia.

I mean, Kelly was probably more on the ball with the 'technical' side of things (picking girls from various groups and reshuffling over and over until four girls looked 'right', commenting on vocals and harmonies) but you can't deny Tulisa's dedication and emotional attachment to the girls. She adored them. I think her relationship with Little Mix was probably one of the few genuine ones the show had ever seen.

Someone on PJ made the observation that it's went from a 4 peak to a 3 peak which is kinda fitting. :lol:

A performance. K8ZLJaaSqYg

Dumb question but I'm just curious if there's ever been any sort of negative feedback/backlash with artists dropping songs from the setlist during tours? For me I'd be pretty pissed off if I paid the same price of a ticket as someone else did at another date and they got a longer show than I did. The matinee shows dropped the Only You/No Time For Tears medley as well and apparently Love Me Or Leave Me was still gone last night too. I know it's about only a few minutes per song but still...

The way these girls stay winning to the very end. (A number 1 album on the week of their last tour would be the perfect close to their career)

Gold Forever really is a stunning song lyrically. It really is like Tom is singing to the group and vice versa.