Little Mix – Move

Vying its way for the number one spot in this week’s Official Chart is Little Mix’s ‘Move’. Little Mix have said that their second studio album includes songs “we wrote pretty much ourselves”. AHEM. So by “pretty much” they mean with the help of vocal coach Maegan Cottone and producer Nathan Duvall. Anyway…

‘Move’ is jam packed with lots of little hooks, but seems to lack a clearly defined chorus. It’s as if someone threw together the best bits of 6 different songs to get a rather tasty bag of mixed nuts. The hook that kicks in over rising octave jumps on  bass synth (sung by Perrie Edwards, the blonde one) is especially brilliant.

The track sounds like a hotchpotch of every girl band song from the last two decades whilst not sounding out of place in today’s chart. There’s everything: a noughties Girls Aloud club vibe, Lady Marmalade-esque vocal harmonised riffs, and even a shouty ‘Hey! Hey!’ Irish jig section at the end that could have been plucked straight out of a B*witched single.

Lyrically there are some gems ‘Feeling like it’s my birthday, like Christmas day came early’ (it rhymes if you pronounce it earl-ay’). Plus they’ve quite cleverly positioned themselves as a girl, waiting to be approached by a man, while still being an assertive independent women but not appearing in any way slutty. Well done everyone.