Las cuatro componentes de Little Mix consiguieron lo que nadie hasta ahora: que un grupo y no un solista ganara The X Factor en Reino Unido. Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock y Jade Thirlwall se unieron en 2011 exclusivamente para ese programa y, a pesar del éxito de su primer single, 'Cannonball', ese año, no lanzaron su álbum debut hasta un año después.
De él se extrajo este 'Wings', del que se ha lanzado incluso una versión en coreano. Del tema original se han vendido más de 100.000 copias, doble platino, y es una incógnita si un grupo británico tendrá o no éxito en un mercado tan local como el coreano.
Mamma told me not to waste my life
She said spread your wings my little butterfly
Don't let what they say keep you up at night
And if they give you shhhh..
Then they can walk on by
My feet, feet can't touch the ground
And I can't hear a sound
But you just keep on running up your mouth yeah
Walk, walk on over there
Cos I'm too fly to care, oh yeah
Your words don't mean a thing
I'm not listening
Keep walking, all I know is
Mamma told me not to waste my life
She said spread your wings my little butterfly
Don't let what they say keep you up at night
And they can't detain you
Coz wings are made to fly
And we don't let nobody bring us down
No matter what you say it won't hurt me
Don't matter if I fall from the sky
These wings are made to fly
Huh huh...
I'm firing up on that runway
I know we're gonna get their someday
But we don't need no ready steady go, no
Talk, talk turns into air
And I don't even care, oh yeah
Your words don't mean a thing
I'm not listening
Keep walking, all I know is
Mamma told me not to waste my life
She said spread your wings my little butterfly
Don't let what they say keep you up at night
And they can't detain you
Coz wings are made to fly
And we don't let nobody bring us down
No matter what you say it won't hurt me
Don't matter if I fall from the sky
These wings are made to fly
I don't need no one saying hey, hey, hey, hey
I don't hear no one saying hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
You better keep on walking
I don't wanna hear your talking boy
You better keep on walking
I don't wanna hear your talking boy
Your words don't mean a thing
I'm not listening
Keep walking, all I know is
Mamma told me not to waste my life
She said spread your wings my little butterfly
Don't let what they say keep you up at night
And they can't detain you
Coz wings are made to fly
And we don't let nobody bring us down
No matter what you say it won't hurt me
Don't matter if I fall from the sky
These wings are made to fly