Where It's At: A Short History of Girlbands

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Where It's At: A Short History of Girlbands - Mollie King dives into girlband history.

Girl Power: A token or a defining musical moment? Mollie King dives into the great British girlband history.

Where It's At: A Short History of Girlbands: 7. Sweet Melody

7. Sweet Melody

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Mollie King zooms in on Little Mix and the age of the girl group in the social media era

Mollie King zooms in on Little Mix and the age of the girl group in the social media era.

Little Mix signalled a step up for the girl group: they were slick like K-pop bands, with powerhouse vocals and arena-quaking routines, and they fought hard to shake off their talent show beginnings to be seen as serious songwriters in their own right. 

Mollie King meets the band’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock, who talks about being part of the last great British girlband, how she’s finally striking out on her own, and the downside of being in a hugely successful group like Little Mix, as she talks about how being in a girlband was a reckoning with her own identity.

In this episode we hear from: Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts, Say Now’s Izzy Salvanera, Amelia Onuorah and Madeleine Haynes, songwriter MNEK, journalist Michael Cragg, Rob Harrison, Mae Muller, producer Brian Higgins of Xenomania. 

Presenter: Mollie King
Producer: Kate Hutchinson
Written by Kate Hutchinson
Assistant Producer: Nadine Peters
Additional production: Holly Fisher
Script consultants: Owen Myers, Sharon O’Connell
Editor: Gareth Isles
Executive Producer: Joe Haddow
Commissioning producers: Jonathan O’Sullivan, Sarah Gosling
Commissioner for BBC Music: Will Wilkin

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