As a child of the noughties from the UK, girl groups were everything to me growing up. We’re talking Girls Aloud, Spice Girls, Little Mix – the list goes on. I had an obsessive love over boy bands too, but girl groups provided a sense of fun that made me feel like I could rule the world alongside my besties! These fab women showed me you can be successful, stand up for yourself and for all women, while still flaunting custom looks.

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The Girl Group feels supremely nineties and 2000s, but it was in the 1930's when the first “Girl Groups” came to be: harmonizing sisters such as the Boswell Sisters and the Three X Sisters. Enter The Bobbettes, the first all-Black girl group which paved the way for plenty of iconic groups to come. Next came The Supremes, the most successful American vocal group and the start to Diana Ross’ fame. More successes leading up to the lull in girl group notoritey in the eighties were Patti LaBelle & the BlueBelles (known for their hit song Lady Marmalade) and Sister Sledge (Everyone knows We are Family). Girl groups sidled away during the eighties, hair metal and hip-hop were taking over the charts and pushing the ladies to aside. It wasn’t long until the girl group was back, and in a BIG WAY. Welcome to the nineties, we’ve got TLC, Destiny’s Child, and a BOOM of girl groups in the UK. In this decade, Britain introduced All Saints and Spice Girls.

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The 2000s and 2010s line-up of girl bands is non-stop icon status: Girls Aloud, The Pussycat Dolls, Sugababes, and Little Mix. It was also in this time that we saw the rise in K-pop girl groups such as Twice and BLACKPINK. And can I ask of one thing? Let’s bring girl groups back! We have KATSEYE, FLO, and Say Now (all great) but why stop there. Let’s bring on the girl groups!