Wings

undefinedWings is a song by four-piece British Girl Group Little.mix09 Wikia  which serves as the lead single and appears as the first track on their debut album DNA. Wings was released on August 26, 2012 and reached number one in the UK and Ireland. It also charted in Australia, New Zealand, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary.

Background & Composition Edit
After becoming the first group to win The X Factor in 2011 and having their first number-one single in the United Kingdom with "Cannonball," the group began recording "Wings" with the song's producers, TMS. The recording was made while Little Mix were on the X Factor Tour in the United Kingdom at the Music Shed in London.In a January 2012 interview with British newspaper the Daily Mirror, Perrie Edwards said "We're going a bit urban, old school with a bit of pop. We wanna bring back old school harmonies. And Jesy beat-boxes and Leigh-Anne raps, so we're trying out different things." On 9 March 2012 Little Mix met with Syco Music label owner Simon Cowell; Cowell was impressed with their progress, saying it was the group's input that made the song good. The recording of "Wings" was described by Edwards: "It was just such a good time and a really cool experience to be able to go into the studio and have a laugh." According to her, the group knew on first listen that the song had to be a single. In writing "Wings", the group were inspired by Beyoncé Knowles and Michael Jackson.

"Wings" is an uptempo pop song incorporating R&B and old school, running three minutes and forty seconds. Instrumentation includes a modern tempo, trumpets, trombone, keyboard, saxophone, drums and clapping. "Wings" is sung in timed harmony,and features a dubstep-composed breakdown two-thirds into the song. Tina Hart of MSN Music likened the song's breakdown to those in Destiny's Child's songs. "Wings" opens with brass instrumentation and clapping before the group harmonizes on the lyrics: "Mama told me not to waste my life, she said spread your wings my little butterfly". The group's vocal performance on the song has been compared to American singer-songwriter Christina Anguilera by a number of critics. Gordon Smart of The Sun and Louis Boroditsky of NOW likened "Wings" to Aguilera's "Candyman" (2007). Other critics felt that the song is reminiscent of girl groups En Vogue and Sugababes, particularly the group's "confident R&B vibe" on their cover of En Vogue's "Don't Let Go (Love)".