People Need To Stop Sleeping On Little Mix And Here Are 24 Reasons Why

Best and biggest girl group in the world right now.

1. Little Mix are made up of four incredibly beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted girls.

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2. They were put together on The X Factor UK back in 2011 by none other than Kelly Rowland from freakin' Destiny's Child and if anyone knows a thing about girl groups, it's her.

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3. And not only were they contestants on the X Factor, they also won the show that year thus becoming the first group to ever win the show!

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4. And 'Wings', their first single, speaks out against bullying and promotes standing up for yourself and not letting anyone put you down.

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"Mama told me not to waste my life, she said spread your wings my little butterfly, don't let what they say keep you up at night, and if they give you shh, then they can walk on by."

They still perform this song to date and even performed it at the One Love Manchester benefit concert.

5. Their debut album, 'DNA' charted at number three on the US Billboard 200 making it the highest debut Billboard chart position by a British girl group since the Spice Girls' debut album 'Spice.'

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Yeah, so basically they're the modern day Spice Girls (and the Spice Girls agree).

6. They have two songs on that album, 'Change Your Life' and 'We Are Who We Are', that promotes self-love and confidence. And this is the kind of message that Little Mix are constantly trying to get through to their fans.

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"The best thing as well is like, when you perform, seeing, I don't know, someone's little face light up because they've got to see you in real life for the first time or when you sing a song and you truly know that it's actually touched someone and really got them right in their heart and it's made them feel something that they've never felt before or it's made them feel more confident and I love the fact that we've done that through out music which is something we've always wanted to do."

- Jesy Nelson

7. And their second studio album, 'Salute', also has songs that convey the very same message. Oh, and not to mention, the title track, 'Salute', is a pure girl power anthem.

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"It's who we are, we don't need no camouflage, it's the female federal, and we're taking off."

8. In fact, they have advocated girl power throughout their career and have always wanted to help girls (and everyone in general) feel confident through their songs.

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"As a girl band and as women, we do face a lot of scrutiny all the time whether it's for the way we look, how much thigh we get out, how we dance, what we sing about and we just wanna say that, although, one day we hope that does stop, right now, we're really not arsed what people think. We are women. We'll dress how we wanna dress... We will always encourage our fans - especially our female fans, to be themselves and do what they wanna do - with our music."

- Jade Thirlwall

Watch her speech here.

9. All of their songs are incredible and they've written a lot of them. About half of the songs that they've recorded and released were written by them.

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But there were over 100 songs written for album three that were scrapped because they knew they could do better. Just goes to show how much they care about the music they put out.

"We are very involved, and we have a lot of control over everything we do and we're absolute perfectionists which can be seen as a good thing or a bad thing but we do want everything to be perfect."

- Perrie Edwards

10. And they have some pretty good accents and impressions if I do say so myself.

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The accents start at the 40 second mark.

11. Except this one.

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12. Jade is a huge LGBTQ+ supporter. She even had The Triple A Girls, Courtney Act, Willam, and Alaska Thunderfuck, join her on their Power video. And Little Mix's song, 'Secret Love Song Pt. II' is considered an LGBTQ+ anthem among fans.

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"I think it's important for me to, sort of raise awareness and support LGBT rights for many reasons. One, because it's just common sense... They deserve to have equal rights. Secondly, because a lot of our fans are LGBT fans and I wanna make sure that they know that we accept them and celebrate who they are and want them to always be who they are. And thirdly, I think just for myself, I owe a lot to that community in general... While I obviously can't relate in the way that, I don't know the struggles that they've been through, I think as an artist, it's almost like a duty to raise awareness and support what they're fighting for."

- Jade Thirlwall

13. By the way, did I mention that Jesy can beatbox and Leigh-Anne can rap?

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Skip to the 2:40 mark.

14. And their third studio album, 'Get Weird' has sold over 900,000 copies worldwide which made it the best-selling album by a girl group this decade at the time. But this record was broken by their fourth studio album, 'Glory Days'.

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And as of January 2018, over two years after its initial release, 'Get Weird' has spent 92 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, breaking the record for the longest charting album by a girl group in the UK, a record previously held by both Destiny's Child and the Spice Girls.

15. They also slay their tour performances. From insane choreography to amazing vocals to killer production, they nail it every time.

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Their Get Weird Tour grossed a total of $22.1 million making it the biggest UK arena tour of 2016 and becoming the eighth highest grossing girl group tour in history. Their Glory Days Tour grossed a total of $42 million making it the biggest UK arena tour of 2017 and becoming the fifth highest grossing girl group tour in history.

16. And they have over 45 million sales worldwide making them the best-selling girl group of the decade and the 7th best-selling girl group of all time.

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17. Oh, and they know how to put on a show.

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FYI, they only had two days to rehearse for that performance.

18. And they can dance. Like, really well.

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19. AND they are the queens of on-stage costume changes (and queens in general).

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20. But while their live performances and studio recordings are incredible, their acapellas and acoustics are even better. Don't believe me? Just watch.

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I mean, those harmonies.

21. Plus they are HILARIOUS.

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22. They can also sing in Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and Australian. I know, I know, Australian isn't a language. But, just watch.

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23. And not only can they sing, they can act super well. I mean, the Oscars are gonna come rolling in any time soon.

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24. Last but not least, they have a true, genuine friendship and they really are the best of friends.

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"We always get asked, 'Are you really friends? Do you girls really get on?' Yes we do. Believe it or not we genuinely are the best of friends, I don't know how, I don't know how fate has done this to us but they managed to put four girls in a group together that genuinely get on. It's fate. That's all there is to it."

- Leigh-Anne Pinnock

"Even from the moment when we first ever sang with each other, we had no idea if we were gonna blend, we didn't know if our voices were gonna match, or if anyone didn't wanna sing certain parts or whatever, we literally just sat down together, sung, and it was just incredible and it just worked and I think that's why I'm a strong believer in fate and that everything happens for a reason because it was just perfect how it happened."

- Perrie Edwards

"I don't think we are a typical girl band like, we're not. We are nutters and every one that meets us is like, 'Oh my god, I've never met four girls like yous [sic] in my life,' and genuinely know that we are the best of friends, like we are sisters. As cheesy as that sounds, I literally could not live without them three nutters in my life. They are my life."

- Jesy Nelson

"When Tulisa and Kelly Rowland put us together [on the X Factor], I literally looked at the girls and I was like, this is my life now. Boom, I'm done. And we instantly clicked and when I looked at them I thought, 'This was always supposed to happen.'"

- Leigh-Anne Pinnock

"The best thing about being in Little Mix is the time we spend with each other. Like, we spend everyday laughing, we have our moments but when we have those moments, we have it together. And I think that's what makes everything so special like, I love those three girls more than anything in the world."

- Perrie Edwards

"I definitely think we all play a massive part in the group. It would never work if one of us wasn't in it."

- Jade Thirlwall

"Since we've been on this fucking tour, all I've seen is article after article about how we're gonna split up, about how we hate each other, how we're arguing. Genuinely, in the six years I've been in Little Mix, we have never had an argument."

- Jesy Nelson

"Waking up everyday and knowing that I get to do something I love with my three best friends is the best thing ever. And when I go through shitty times I know I can go back to my hotel room, get the girls in the room and tell them exactly how I feel and I know they're gonna know how I feel because they've gone through it."

- Jesy Nelson

And they love and support each other no matter how tough it gets.

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"Perrie is just a little ray of sunshine. She's a very, very positive person to be around which I absolutely love. She's always happy. Don't get me wrong she does have her moods but very rarely. I think she's been through so much crap that people don't know about and you would never bloody know because she's such a strong woman. And I really admire that about her and I think if people knew about some of the things she's been through, oh god, I just think she's incredible. To me, she's like Wonder Woman."

- Jesy about Perrie

"When I first met Perrie, she came into my room - I shared a room with Jesy at bootcamp [on the X Factor] - and I heard her sing and I was just like, 'Wow. This girl is incredible.' And she was so shy as well and like, so, like you just wouldn't expect that voice to come out of her."

- Leigh-Anne about Perrie

"I flipping adore Leigh-Anne. She's just, I've never met anyone like her in me [sic] life. Because she's like, she's a diva, but the loveliest little diva you'll ever meet. Like she is, she is made for this life. She is literally made for this pop star life. Like, everything down to fashion, down to just having her hair and make-up done, down to being on stage, having people take pictures of her. She loves it. But what I love about Leigh-Anne is she won't, she admits that she loves it and I really like that about her. But asides from that, she's the nicest, kindest person you'll ever meet."

- Jesy about Leigh-Anne

I feel like people on the outside, don't really know the real Jade. She's so intelligent, she's one of the most cleverest [sic] people I've ever met like literally, when we get asked stuff about politics, I haven't got a fucking clue but Jade knows every single little thing and you would never know that by looking at her cos she has this exterior that's all cute and girly. And so whenever we get asked questions like that, you should watch, in interviews, we all just look at Jade."

- Jesy about Jade

"Me and Jesy just clicked straight away. Like, she is literally my best friend. I love her more than anything in the world."

- Perrie about Jesy

"She has such a strong opinion, she's very strong minded and has a very strong opinion and I think that's what makes her so unique and so crucial to Little Mix because if we don't like something like, she has so much balls and she'll fight for us and that's what we need in this group and I think that's what she carries."

- Leigh-Anne about Jesy