♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- ♪ Drop it low and shake it, girl ♪
- "Sean Paul."
Oh, wait. Is this Little Mix?
- Little Mix.
- Oh my gosh!
I didn't even think that you guys were gonna show me this.
I'm so excited!
♪ (dancehall music) ♪
- I don't know who it is so far.
- I have no idea who this is.
- ♪ I call my girl (hey) ♪
♪ 'Cause I got a problem (what) ♪
♪ Only a curl (mm-hmm) ♪
- Oh, I really like their hair.
- ♪ Then I don't really care ♪
♪ Just get him out of my hair ♪
- I'm still not really sure what's happening.
- ♪ Gotta get him outta my hair ♪
- Oh boy, there's a little cocktail party.
- ♪ ...outta my hair ♪ - Is this Fifth Harmony?
- ♪ Can't do it ♪
- (sighing) They're so perfect!
- ♪ ...sittin' in this chair ♪
- They all look like they're already done up.
(laughing) Quit playin'.
- ♪ Gotta get him outta my hair ♪
♪ I've tried everything but it's useless ♪
♪ He pushed me... ♪ - So it's like a girl's night.
Like they just broke up. She gotta get him out of her hair.
- ♪ Make him disappear ♪ - Is this just a hair advertisement?
Like, is this even a song?
- ♪ 'Cause he was just a [bleep] and I knew it ♪
- Yes, girl!
Like, just watching them, you already feel empowered
'cause you're like, "Damn! You're right. I am a great girl."
- It's pretty catchy. It's very poppy though.
(ladies giggle) - Aww, that was cute.
(ladies laugh)
- Man, this is really gonna get me back into them.
I miss Little Mix so much.
I feel so bad that I've abandoned them.
- It doesn't appeal to me really, but you go, girl.
Get him out yo' head. (chuckles)
(school bell rings)
- (whispering) I love this music video so much!
- "Black Magic."
- I've never actually seen this music video for this one.
♪ ('80s dance music) ♪
- ♪ Wanna know what it is ♪
♪ Make the boys want more ♪
- Oh, I've heard this song before.
- ♪ Is your lover playing... ♪
- That's gonna be me when I first walk into college.
- ♪ Said he loves you ♪ - Oh-- oh my god. He's so hot.
(swoons sarcastically)
- ♪ Here's the answer ♪
♪ Come and get it ♪
♪ At a knocked down price ♪
(chuckling)
- ♪ ...he's been missin' ♪
♪ So come and get it ♪
♪ While you still got time ♪
- This music video is just so cute.
- ♪ Take a sip of my secret potion ♪
♪ I'll make you fall in love ♪
♪ For a spell that can't be broken ♪
♪ One drop... ♪ - This is adorable.
(giggling)
- Is this like a satanic ritual?
They're all holding hands and chanting around the book,
but they're singing so it seems a little better.
- ♪ Take a sip of my secret potion ♪
- Oh yeah, that's really cool.
- Oh, so the black magic is gonna make them hot.
- ♪ It'll keep you up all night ♪
- I feel like I've heard this before.
- ♪ I got the recipe ♪
♪ And it's called black magic ♪
- They're just casually playing with black magic.
No big deal.
It makes them hot.
- ♪ Take a sip of my secret potion ♪
- Did they just--? They just made that girl fart.
- ♪ Take a sip of my secret potion ♪ - (cracking up)
Oh, that's horrible!
- Is that an actual part of the video? They just made her fart?
- Oh, bro. She farted, bro. Break up with her.
Oh, she farted twice. It's over.
- ♪ And it's called black magic ♪
♪ Take a sip of my secret potion ♪ - (mouthing lyrics)
- ♪ One taste and you'll be mine ♪
♪ It's a spell that can't be broken ♪
- Is this what college is gonna be like?
- It's like a school dance except in the classroom. (chuckling)
- ♪ And it's called black magic ♪
- Oh, now the professor's getting it-- all right, cool.
- I feel like they'd get in huge trouble for magic all over the school.
- That was also really cute.
- I really like their music.
I mean, some of it kind of gets very poppy
to where I can only listen to it so much, but it's still good.
- I'm so happy!
I've been waiting for this day.
♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- (FBE) Okay, so do you know who this girl group is?
- Beats me! (laughs) I have no idea.
- I have no idea who they are.
- I'm not sure. They look familiar.
- That was Little Mix.
- Little Mix.
I was a big One Direction fan-- well, I mean, I still am.
They both came from The X Factor, stuff like that, so...
similar story, just different gender.
- I know them because of One Direction.
Zayn was dating Perrie, and then I saw Little Mix,
and then I loved them 'cause they were just so cute.
- (FBE) This was the popular British girl group Little Mix.
- Okay.
- "Little Mix." Still never heard of 'em.
- (FBE) What'd you think of their music? - Not for me, personally.
Too, like, poppy. Like bubblegum pop.
- They sounded like any other girl group.
- There's not really much substance to it.
I don't like the music necessarily,
but I'll watch their singles for the music videos.
- The first one, I liked.
The second one was kind of unfortunate
'cause there's the whole thing where they used magic
to make themselves super sexy and attractive.
You don't have to be hot to be accepted.
- All their stuff is very light-hearted and fun.
And they're all incredibly talented women.
- I love it.
It's always so cute and fun.
And a lot of it is pretty empowering.
- Pop music tends to be frowned upon 'cause it's like,
"Oh, it's not real music though."
But it's like pop music is still that fun dancing music,
and that's exactly what they make.
It's that happy music that makes you feel good.
- (FBE) What do you think has made Little Mix stand out
amongst other girl groups to get this level of popularity?
- Uh, well, I mean, they aren't ugly. (laughs)
- They look really pretty. I'd like to look like some of them.
- I think the ethnic diversity might be part of it
because a lot of girl groups aren't.
- They work really well together and I think it's cool
'cause they didn't start off together.
They were put together.
I really like the chemistry when they sing.
- Their vocals are amazing and their style is great
and it's just-- they have so much talent,
and that's exactly what the fans see.
- (FBE) So Little Mix was first formed on the UK version of The X Factor,
where they won the competition.
And another girl group, Fifth Harmony, were formed similarly
on the American version of the show, just months after this happened.
- Oh, really?
- That's why they sounded so similar.
- So they're like a girl version of One Direction.
- (FBE) Why is the forming of groups in this way something that works?
- I guess it's because it's taking multiple people that have talent already
and putting them together.
- You already have exposure from the show,
and then you get four people together.
That's four times the exposure.
You start making music and it starts to be shared
and it's just-- it's kind of perfect, you know?
It's the perfect formula.
- (FBE) So speaking of Fifth Harmony, there's a pretty heated rivalry
on social media between the two fan bases of the groups,
the Mixers and the Harmonizers, over who is better,
even though the members of the actual bands
seem to get along really well. - I think it's dumb.
Why can't we just appreciate them both?
- I think I kind of did that at one point too
just because I was liking Little Mix, and then Fifth Harmony came out
and I was like, "No! But they're not gonna get that big."
And then Fifth Harmony got SO big that a lot of the Mixers
were sort of like, "Wait, what the heck?"
- (FBE) Why do you think that fandoms end up at odds with each other like this?
- Probably because they think their fandom is better
than everyone else's fandom.
- It's just kind of like a petty rivalry.
It's fun when you're part of it.
- It's just like sports, where people get so invested
into these groups of people
and they feel like they've become part of them.
- It's like the mentality that if they don't stay on top,
then they might fall and break up and you don't ever want that happening,
so you just try your best to make sure nobody can interfere.
- It's always a competition of who's better,
but I don't feel like the artists really go into that
because they just respect each other's craft.
- In the end, it just comes down to both of these girl groups
are just really good,
and music, in general, is just really good.
And I feel like it's that sort of support to both that needs to happen.
- (FBE) Little Mix often speaks in their music and out in public
about female empowerment and the issue of body shaming
as one of their members, Jessie, has been criticized online
and in the media for her size. - I love Jessie.
She is so amazing and she always looks so good all the time.
I don't know what people are talking about.
- (FBE) She's been vocal in encouraging people to stand up
and be proud of what they look like.
What do you think about this? - I think that's really good.
- What does her appearance even have to do with anything?
Just let her sing her music.
- That's great.
We need a lot more of that.
I've been called fat
and told that I don't have an ideal body for this or that.
- Everyone is so much harder on women.
There are so many women who want to make that change,
and they want to speak out against it, but you can only do so much.
- What you are and what you look like should matter to one person,
and one person only, and that person's you.
You should never, ever change yourself
based on what somebody else wants to see out of you.
♪ (guitar riff) ♪
- (FBE) So, finally, Little Mix is planning on releasing
their fourth album sometime later this year
and they've said that it's another step from anything
they've ever done before.
Do you think you're gonna check out the new album?
- Probably not.
I'm into classic rock.
- Definitely.
- I'm definitely gonna look at that album.
- Oh yeah, of course, 'cause I think they're phenomenal singers.
- It sounds exciting that they're taking this step away
from what they're used to, so it's gonna be different
and cool and I think I'm starting to become a Mixer again,
and I feel-- I still feel really bad that I abandoned them
in the first place.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Teens React.
- It's not magic!
Just subscribe for new content every week.
- Let us know in the comments what music we should react to next.
- Goodbye to all my fellow Mixers out there.
♪ (punk rock music) ♪