Little Mix singer Jade Thirwall has claimed that the band’s split from Simon Cowell’s Syco record label “f***ed us over.” The band shot to fame on Cowell’s TV talent show The X Factor in 2011 and were represented by his label for seven years.
In 2018, Syco confirmed that they would “no longer work with Modest Management,” Little Mix’s management company, “and therefore any artists signed to that management company.” The announcement came just days before the release of Little Mix’s album LM5.
Speaking to The Sun, Thirlwall, 27, said that she and bandmates Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson and Leigh-Anne Pinnock couldn’t promote the message of female empowerment as strongly as they had wished during the LM5 campaign due to the “switch of labels.”
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