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"Tulisa Contostavlos has compared her X Factor girl band Little Mix to the Spice Girls. The N-Dubz star claimed that the four-piece - comprised of Jesy Nelson, Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall - had managed to break the &amp;quot;girl band curse&amp;quot; on the show because they had a genuine friendship. &amp;quot;With these girls, there was always something different about them. You could see how genuine they were from the start and it didn&amp;#039;t feel like a group of girls just put together,&amp;quot; Contostavlos said on The Xtra Factor.  &amp;quot;They were friends. It&amp;#039;s everything from the talent, to the friendship, it&amp;#039;s real and it&amp;#039;s something that&amp;#039;s been missing.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;I think there has been problems in the past with girl bands being misunderstood and people not really getting to know them.&amp;quot; Little Mix will be in next week&amp;#039;s semi-final alongside Marcus Collins, Misha B and Amelia Lily.  &amp;gt; Janet Devlin voted out of The X Factor &amp;gt; Little Mix top Digital Spy poll &amp;gt; X Factor Little Mix: &amp;#039;We want to be a modern Spice Girls&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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