Mel C: 'Little Mix remind me of the Spice Girls'
Published Feb 15 2012, 10:30 GMT | By Daniel Sperling
Mel C has claimed that X Factor winners Little Mix remind her of the Spice Girls.The singer described the 'Cannonball' group - comprising Jesy Nelson, Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards and Leigh-Anne Pinnock - as "absolutely adorable" and suggested that they had recaptured her former band's "really fun" side.
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"I love them," she said during an appearance on Lorraine. "What I love about these girls is they've got fantastic voices, they're really talented, but they look like young girls. They're not uber sexy, uber glam, they're really good positive role models, which we don't have that many of.
"They remind me of the Spice Girls in that way, because they're really fun and young and I think that's what pop music should be about. It's kind of got a bit too serious and a little bit too sexy at times."
However, Mel C warned Little Mix not to take their fame for granted.
"My advice to them would be enjoy it, enjoy every minute, because it doesn't last forever," she said. "When you're in the middle of it, you don't think of the future.
"You get so busy and you can get weighed down with the all pressures - just enjoy it. It's a fairytale, it's a dream come true for so many young girls."
Mel C also confirmed this morning that the Spice Girls will not reunite for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Speaking to Digital Spy while competing on The X Factor last year, Little Mix said that they would like to become "a modern day Spice Girls".
"The Spice Girls all had individual personalities and girls can relate to a different one," Edwards said. "I think they were approachable as a girl group and you wanted to be their friends. That's what we want to go for."
Watch Little Mix in the video for 'Cannonball' below:
Leo Howard If they lived next door to me, they wouldn't be living much longer for their current atrocities to the music industry
February 16th 2012 at 9:44pm
They are the girls next door.
February 16th 2012 at 9:38pm
Leo Howard I wasn't really comparing them as groups... I just thought that the Spice Girls were so crazy when they came out, almost shocking and vivacious and exciting. I like Little Mix, they are lovely, talented girls but I don't find them exciting in the way that the Spice Girls were. I only mentioned Stooshe cos I'm so excited about that project and I cannot wait to get my hands on their album :)
February 16th 2012 at 9:30pm
@ Richard Jones: I agree they are cute and have swagger. In Week 6, When they did Telephone, Gary called them predictable, and I agreed, but they really upped their game afterwards. I hope they are sucessful. They fill a gap in the market for a-girl-next-door group, and are longer lasting than flops Joe Mcelderry and Eoghan Quigg (although Mcelderry hasnt done too badly since Syco sacked him) and sucesses 1D. People may give them negative press as Cannonball didnt sell well for a winners song, but it was still no 1 in its first week. If the mixers have a good follow up, aided by a big name like Jessie J, and if it is in a week of limited competition, they could be big. They deserve it. They are strong, Good looking without being provocative, and hard workers, so they deseve sucess.
With the explicit and shocking StooShe, they also have a gap in the market to fill, in the shocker act. Both will be big, but it's no point comparing wholesome Little Mix, who don't like Alcohol and never smoke, even if they have relatives with these problems, and wont offend with their lyrics, and Controversial, raw, Issue tacklers Stooshe. Both however, are filling market gaps, and will dominate the two extremes of the girlband scene.
Note that 1D had competition in their market in The Wanted, but have still done well. Anything can happen with girlbands…
February 16th 2012 at 9:12pm
Natasha Martin I agree those lyrics would not appear on a Spice Girls track. Besides, Little Mix are fun, that`s one of the reasons why they won over people on the X Factor.
February 16th 2012 at 6:44pm