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Album: Little Mix - 'Glory Days'
Member Since: 5/27/2016
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The trinity: YGN, NMSS, NEM
All time trinity for them is DNA, Move & NEM
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Why does it take so long to download the rest of the album and videos from iTunes? I haven't even got my confirmation email to let me know that it's available to download.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by Tiziano's Boy
Why does it take so long to download the rest of the album and videos from iTunes? I haven't even got my confirmation email to let me know that it's available to download.
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Has it been released where you are?
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Originally posted by smoore95GAGA
Has it been released where you are?
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Yes, it was released in the UK 26 minutes ago.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by Tiziano's Boy
Yes, it was released in the UK 26 minutes ago.
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iTunes is notorious for being ridiculously slow. Just try to be patient, lol.
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Touch is the USA smash waiting to happen
They didn't do any promo here for SOTME so hopefully for Touch
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Why did SOTME just download for me, instead of the rest of the album?
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#1 & #9 in the UK. It took minutes.
Queens
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I'M SLAYED.
early trinity is Private Show, Power and Oops.
Seriously, what an album.
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Member Since: 7/30/2010
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AllMusic: 4/5 stars
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Their fourth studio album, 2016's Glory Days, is no exception and finds the group delivering a set of hooky, smartly crafted songs that balance swaggering, '60s-style R&B with stylish, electronic-tinged dance-pop. Produced by the duo of Henrik Barman Michelsen and Edvard Førre Erfjord, aka Electric, Glory Days is a robust, soulful album that makes the most of Little Mix's multi-voiced approach to pop. As on previous efforts, showcased here are Little Mix vocalists Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Jade Thirlwall. Together, they come off like a spunky, millennial version of '90s divas En Vogue crossed with Shakira. The comparison works especially nicely when considering the album's more dynamic offerings, like the anthemic, Mumford & Sons-ish "Shout Out to My Ex," the synthy, salsa-inflected "Touch," and the rousing, brass band-accented "You Gotta Not." These are catchy, deeply rhythmic songs, arranged with a mix of horns, guitars, and keyboards and also benefiting from the group's added layer of empowered, female-positive lyrics. Elsewhere, Little Mix strike a cheeky, classic girl group stance on the '60s-sounding "F.U." and the equally retro-leaning, Brill Building-esque "Oops," featuring Charlie Puth. Also compelling is the way the group infuses the EDM-influenced cuts like "Down & Dirty" and the soaring, synth-heavy "Nothing Else Matters" with a enough believably emotional vocal grit to keep things from getting too slick. Ultimately, Little Mix's vocal grit and sassy group chemistry make Glory Days such a celebratory album.
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The Guardian: 4/5 stars
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2011 victors Little Mix prove that our appetite for four-part harmony is strong as ever. Their fourth album is a chart-ready triple threat of weepy piano ballads, pop bangers and on-trend, Bieberesque EDM. Themes range from breakups to makeups, but Jade, Jesy, Leigh-Anne and Perrie somewhat make up for failing the musical Bechdel test by irreverently namechecking Game of Thrones and kids animation Blues Clues. Touch, Power and No More Sad Songs offer club drops and shimmery basslines, while Oops combines consciously retro doo-wopishness with a guest appearance from US popster Charlie Puth. Elsewhere, Nobody Like You offers full-on Kleenex-at-the-ready fragility and echoey vocals, and Shout Out to My Ex, which debuted at No 1 on the singles chart at the end of last month, is four minutes of lush, stompy (debatably faux) empowerment. Yes, the message here is probably as substantial as Girl Power once was, but this is chart-pop perfection nonetheless.
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Touch
Power
Private Show
No More Sad Songs
They delivered a great album.
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Anyone wanna predict the MC score? I'm gonna be optimistic and go with a 70, because their albums are always underrated.
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This is better than GW
not better than their best, aka Salute tho but still slain
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OMG @ them being #1 in Lebanon... Little [Global] Legends strike again.
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Who knew one day i would feel like a dirty ***** while listening to Little Mix
They did THAT in Beep Beep
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Some of these modern EDM/dance-pop producers could learn something from the little breakdown in "Power". Catchy as ****, not overtly noisy, and it melodically fits with the rest of the song. If it wasn't for that obnoxious "motorbike" bit and that voice yelling "hold up!" this song would be their best for me in years.
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Originally posted by Shy Boy
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The acclaim it deserves
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