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Album: Glory Days (2016)
Charted: 4
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Songfacts®:

  • This pulsating island-flavored club anthem finds Little Mix singing about falling for a guy:

    You and I and nobody else
    Feeling feelings I've never felt
    The way you got me under your spell
    Don't you keep it all to yourself


    The song was released as the second single from Glory Days and represents the first time the girl group have released a full shimmering club anthem.
  • The song was written by Little Mix's Leigh Anne Pinnock with:

    Hanni Ibrahim, who writes under the name of Sunny productions and Sunny UK. He has also worked for Professor Green having produced "Do for You" and "Forever Falling" for the rapper.

    Songwriter Patrick Patrikios, whose other credits include Giorgio Moroder's US #1 dance hit "Right Here, Right Now" and JLS' track "Never Gonna Stop."

    Zimbabwean/French/Native American singer-songwriter Shun (Shungudzo Kuyimba) who supplied backing vocals for Jim James' Eternally Yours album.

    Phil Plested, formerly of the pop group Chasing Grace, who were signed to Naughty Boy's label. He provided some of the vocals on "A Gift & A Curse," one of the tracks off London-born rapper Devlin's, A Moving Picture album and also collaborated with Naughty Boy himself on his Hotel Cabana song "So Strong."
  • Production was by:

    Uzoechi Emenike (a.k.a. MNEK) who also collaborated with Little Mix on "Wings". The London-born producer also has credits on hit songs by Misha B ("Home Run") and Duke Dumont ("Need U (100%)") as well as his own collaboration with Zara Larsson, "Never Forget You."

    British American songwriter and vocal producer Maegan Cottone, who previously worked with Little Mix on their "Move" and "Salute" songs. She also collaborated with Olly Murs on his duet with Demi Lovato, "Up."
  • Plested started working on the idea before Little Mix got involved. He told Songfacts how the tune evolved from a blues-inspired track to a pop record: "When I started the song, it was originally guitar driven and quite bluesy. I had no idea what it was at first let alone who should sing it. But it was when a couple of my friends got in to finish, we all realized that it would be huge as a pop record. The first I heard of Little Mix being interested, was when I got their version fully recorded, saying it was going to be on the album! That one was very lucky."

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