Little Mix & One Direction: What REALLY Happened Off Stage
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to We're Talking.
What was the secret to Little Mix's success?
In this episode, Perry Edwards and Lou Teasdale pull back the curtain on what life was really like inside a 2010s pop machine.
How did Little Mix shape Perrie Edwards as a woman?
From global tours and record-breaking highs to the emotional toll of growing up on the road.
So the super group is put together.
Why does Perrie Edwards still see Little Mix as underdogs?
Yes.
And you go on to win.
Yes.
What was Perrie Edwards' most challenging time in Little Mix?
From what I understand, this is the first group to win the X Factor. Yeah. All right. Not bad.
How did Lou Teasdale start working with One Direction?
Crazy.
Not bad. Not shy.
How did fame change the members of One Direction?
And then you go on to participate in a little group called Little Mix.
Yeah.
What were the best moments of life on tour with One Direction?
Which.
Casual.
I will say what I was blown away. This is the stat I was blown away. So I was interviewing Ashley Roberts.
Mm-hmm.
And I was doing research on the Pussycat Dolls.
Yeah.
At how many albums, streams, and singles the Pussycat Dolls had sold.
Yeah.
There were only a few groups that had sold more.
Right.
You know the top three?
Okay.
It was Spice Girls.
Yeah.
The Supremes.
Oh, wow.
And Little Mix.
No.
Yes.
I thought you were going to say Destiny's Child or like En Vogue.
Destiny's Child was next.
Wow.
Yes. That's wild. In terms of albums, streams, singles.
That's mind blowing, isn't it?
That's just.
We did so well. That is crazy.
Yeah. It's just mad.
Yeah.
So when you think about that entire period, like how many years were you and the girls together?
12, I believe.
Okay. Yeah. And that was an important 12 because you were literally becoming a woman.
Yes.
During that time.
Yeah.
So how do you think being in this super group shaped you as a woman?
Oh, massively. I feel like because I was the youngest as well, I looked up to them so much and I learned so much from them. I feel like growing up in the public eye isn't easy. But when you have three other girls who are going through it, it kind of takes the load off a little bit. But I always say like it sounds crazy, but me and the girls were so in each other's pockets. And so in sync that it was like next level in sync. So like if one of us went through heartbreak, we all felt it. If one of us lost a family member, we were all heartbroken. If one of us was like winning in life, we were all winning in life. Like we were literally, we felt every emotion like in sync. It was so bizarre. Like not just like, oh, babe, I'm here for you.
It was like we were all heartbroken. because we just felt it. We didn't want to see one of us that down and that sad. We all just kind of took it on as well. So I think our connection was huge. And I'm so grateful because when we were put in the group, it was like, Go bands clash. You'll argue. You won't get along. It'll be really competitive. And there was moments where it was like, babe, can you stop pissing me off? But other than that, we just adored each other. We had each other's backs. We didn't argue. And even though people wanted to make that the headline every five seconds of our career, we didn't. We just knew exactly what we wanted. We had each other. We all had one vision and one goal and we knew what we wanted to do.
And we were always the underdogs. Like from the very beginning, it was like, you won't do very well. Girl bands don't do that well and it won't last. Yeah. All this stuff. And I think that's what gave us the fire in our bellies to want to work so much and so hard to prove everybody wrong. So I think that's why we were never... We never just sat back and thought, we were like, what can we do now? What else can we do? How can we make this bigger? Where can we take this now? We were constantly... Gone. Yes. At a pace.
Yes. I mean, you can see it in the results, you know. So the biggest selling single, shout out to my ex, stayed at number one for three weeks, achieved over two million in total sales in the UK. Wow. Billboard ranked Black Magic among the 100 greatest girl group songs of all time. Wow.
Wow.
The debut album, DNA, was the first by a British girl group to debut in the US top five.
Yeah.
Spice Girls didn't even do that.
That one was a big one.
I mean, your fourth album, Glory Days, became the longest reigning top 40 album by a girl group since the Spice Girls. It's like numbers don't lie in terms of how successful the group was.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:02
2
What was the secret to Little Mix's success?
0:02–0:11
3
How did Little Mix shape Perrie Edwards as a woman?
0:11–0:31
4
Why does Perrie Edwards still see Little Mix as underdogs?
0:31–0:34
5
What was Perrie Edwards' most challenging time in Little Mix?
0:34–0:41
6
How did Lou Teasdale start working with One Direction?
0:41–0:44
7
How did fame change the members of One Direction?
0:44–0:49
8
What were the best moments of life on tour with One Direction?
0:49–21:08
Speakers
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