Little Mix: ‘We embrace who we are, we’re not perfect’

Little Mix are one of the biggest girl bands in the world. So shouldn’t they be having as much fun as the Spice Girls before them? Eva Wiseman finds out it’s not so simple in 2017

It was summer 2015, and Little Mix were premiering a new song live on TV when they got to the lyric, “Love isn’t fair”, and Perrie Edwards, fresh from her break-up with One Direction’s Zayn Malik, burst into tears. Bandmates Jade Thirlwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jesy Nelson fell gently into her, a protective hug that looked like the tide coming in.

When, soon after, Malik started seeing a supermodel, Edwards’s every move was monitored as evidence of her pain, from her “revenge body” to the meaning of a new haircut. And then, a year later, the band released a single that felt like a sharpened middle finger, called Shout Out To My Ex. “I hope she’s getting better sex. Hope she ain’t faking it like I did, babe.” The effect was that Edwards took back some sort of ownership of her story, turning it into one of female solidarity – the video shows a Thelma and Louise-style road trip, with the band prancing like delighted fauns through a purple desert.

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