Why Little Mix Is Here to Stay
Being a fan of a girl group means putting yourself in a precarious position. There's always a lingering inevitability that the group will eventually dissolve so that its members can pursue solo careers; that finality is even more acutely felt when that group is created for television purposes (i.e., Eden's Crush, Girls Aloud and Danity Kane, among others).
That's why it's fair to at least pose the question: Is it time to start worrying about Little Mix? Even with current single "Black Magic" becoming the highest-charting hit of the group's catalog, Little Mix's upcoming Get Weird album is already the third of the U.K. girl group's career, a feat most girl groups struggle to hit (the Spice Girls barely made it, with four members instead of five). The group has been intact for four tireless years, since being corralled together on The X Factor, where all four members—Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall—auditioned as soloists. Even if a breakup isn't happening anytime soon, history would suggest that Little Mix is closer to the end than the beginning.
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