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Little Mix & One Direction: What REALLY Happened Off Stage

6/4/202623 min

Perrie Edwards and Lou Teasdale pull back the curtain on life inside two of the biggest pop groups of a generation. Perrie reflects on growing up in Little Mix, becoming one of the best-selling girl groups of all time, public heartbreak, pressure, and the sisterhood that carried them through. Lou shares what it was really like touring the world with One Direction, raising her daughter on the road, the fan chaos, the private jets, and why life behind the scenes was far less glamorous than it looked. This is a rare look inside Little Mix, One Direction, fame, friendship, and the real cost of growing up in the spotlight. (00:00) Intro (00:32) The Success of Little Mix (02:00) How Little Mix Shaped Perrie as a Woman (04:17) Why Perrie Still Sees Little Mix as Underdogs (08:02) Perrie’s Most Challenging Time in Little Mix (09:20) Finding Stability While Touring the World (12:23) How Lou Started Working With One Direction (14:14) The First One Direction Tour (14:57) How Fame Changed the Members of One Direction (17:10) The Best Moments of Life on Tour (19:34) The Wildest Things Fans Did to Meet One Direction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clips

Shared Heartbreak Synchrony
Worst Part: Public Breakup
Little Mix Among Top Three
Fans Risking Lives
Forever the Underdogs
Will You Wait For Me?

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

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  2. Paul C. Brunson· Host0:25

    Welcome to We're Talking. In this episode, Perrie Edwards and Lou Teasdale pull back the curtain on what life was really like inside a 2010s pop machine, from global tours and record-breaking highs to the emotional toll of growing up on the road. So the supergroup is put together.

  3. Perrie Edwards· Guest0:58

    Yes.

  4. Paul C. Brunson· Host0:58

    And you go on to win.

  5. Perrie Edwards· Guest1:00

    Yes.

  6. Paul C. Brunson· Host1:00

    All right. For what I understand, this is the first group to win The X Factor.

  7. Perrie Edwards· Guest1:07

    Yeah.

  8. Paul C. Brunson· Host1:07

    All right. Not bad.

  9. Perrie Edwards· Guest1:08

    Crazy.

  10. Paul C. Brunson· Host1:09

    Not bad.

  11. Perrie Edwards· Guest1:10

    Not shabby.

  12. Paul C. Brunson· Host1:10

    Uh, a- and then you go on to, uh, participate in a little group called Little Mix.

  13. Perrie Edwards· Guest1:15

    Yeah.

  14. Paul C. Brunson· Host1:15

    Which- Cashable. [laughs] I will say, what I was blown away, this is the stat I was blown away. So I was interviewing Ashley Roberts.

  15. Perrie Edwards· Guest1:23

    Mm-hmm.

  16. Paul C. Brunson· Host1:24

    And I was doing research on The Pussycat Dolls.

  17. Perrie Edwards· Guest1:27

    Yep.

  18. Paul C. Brunson· Host1:28

    At how many albums,

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