“We want each girl to be happy and comfortable and not be in a place where she feels attacked or drowned by the world around us, which doesn’t even happen anymore.”įifth Harmony has a handful of dates in support of its latest album, which the group plans to complete. “We just have respect for each other, so it’s cool,” Jauregui told The Times when asked how the group navigates personal passions.
She also juggles her recording career with activism for LGBTQ equality (she famously came out as bisexual in a letter to Trump supporters) and women’s rights. Hansen went viral for a Christmas record she worked on with her idol Leona Lewis and she’s also recorded with RedOne, Daddy Yankee and French Montana.Īnd Jauregui has done extensive work on the solo side, recording the same-sex anthem “Strangers” with Halsey and collaborating with Marian Hill, Steve Aoki and boyfriend Ty Dolla Sign. chart debut by a girl group member ever.Įarlier this year, Hernandez issued “Perfect” alongside DJ Topic, was featured on a track from Los Angeles DJ duo Lost Kings last summer and is poised to appear in Season 2 of Freeform’s “Famous in Love.” And “Love Lies,” a scorching duet with Khalid, made history as the highest first solo U.S. Last year, Kordei competed on Season 24 of “Dancing With the Stars,” where she finished in third place, and signed a solo management deal with S10 Entertainment & Media. That’s the boring answer,” Hernandez said last year when asked how they approach outside projects. Yet the group’s rise was often marred by whispers of infighting and conflict, murmurs that were confirmed when Cabello exited just hours after a group performance in 2016 (informing the others via her representative).Īfter Cabello’s dramatic departure, the women of Fifth Harmony - which also includes Dinah Jane Hansen and Ally Brooke Hernandez - realized they wanted to work on repairing the group’s dynamic as well as its relationship with the label to become more vocal about its career ambitions.Īt the core of those conversations, the women say, was getting on the same page about ambitions with and without the group.Īnd over the past year, they have balanced group commitments and individual pursuits with one another’s support and a promise to return to the group when the timing was right. The act made history in 2016 as the first girl group to score a top 10 Billboard Hot 100 smash in nearly a decade with the snappy “Work From Home.”
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Though a wave of boy bands had found success - including One Direction (assembled on the British version of “X Factor”) - no girl group had managed to hit it big like Danity Kane, the Pussycat Dolls, Destiny’s Child, the Spice Girls or TLC did in their prime.įifth Harmony’s 2015 debut, “Reflection,” saw the group pick up where Destiny’s Child and TLC had left off, with an album full of slinky dance-pop and R&B/hip-hop-informed girl-power anthems - with breakout single “Worth It” becoming one of the year’s biggest earworms. (Jean-Baptiste Lacroix / AFP / Getty Images )
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