Little Mix have revealed that One Direction gave them some good advice about cracking the American music market.

The ‘Wings’ four-piece are set to launch themselves stateside this year, with the release of their debut album at the end of this month, and say ‘Live While We’re Young’ band One Direction just told them to “be yourselves”.

“I asked the boys from One Direction how to make it in America and they basically said, ‘Be yourself and you can’t go wrong’,” Leigh-Anne Pinnock says, in the new issue of Seventeen magazine. “People know when you’re trying to be someone you’re not.

“Just be true to who you are,” Leigh-Anne recalled, before adding: “So that’s what we’ve been doing!”

Check out Little Mix’s cover issue of Seventeen below (Credit: Chris Craymer for Seventeen):

The ‘DNA’ four-piece also said they were given advice by Spice Girls star Emma Bunton, who told them that friendship is the most important aspect of being in a girl band.

“When we met the Spice Girls, Emma Bunton told us to keep being friends because that’s the connection fans love you for,” Jade Thirlwall recalled.

Little Mix release their debut album ‘DNA’ in America on 28th may.

For more on Little Mix to to the Seventeen website or pick up the June/July issue of the magazine, published on 21st May.

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They might have just announced their 2014 world tour, but the One Direction boys are still very much in the midst of this year’s Take Me Home Tour.

And the fivesome – who announced news that they were set to embark on their very first world stadium tour next year last week – were greeted with hoards of female fans once again as they headed over to the Italian City of Verona ahead of their performance tonight, which will see them perform in their oldest venue yet.

Thousands of fans queued up outside the historic venue waiting to catch a glimpse of their favourite member, as they took part in rehearsals inside.

The group, who shot to fame on the X Factor, have become a global phenomenon since their debut single in 2011 and have topped charts in more than 37 countries, but the boys are obviously still overwhelmed by the hugeness of their success.

Peering over the barriers at the waiting crowds, the boyband looked on in desbelief as they smiled and waved at their adoring fans, taking photos on their mobile phones as they did.

The ampitheatre – which holds 15,000 people – is over 2000 years old and has featured some of the world’s most famous opera singers, as well as huge bands such as Pink Floyd and Muse.

The boys took to twitter to express their excitement about playing at the venue. Harry Styles wrote: ‘Can’t wait to play Verona tonight. It could rain. Which would make things intersting.’

While Liam Payne said: ‘Verona are you ready for tonight though:) exciteddd :)’

One Direction shot to fame after coming third in the 2010 series of the X Factor, where they lost out to singer-songwriter Matt Cardle.

But the five-piece have gone on to eclipse the eventual winner, enjoying a string of top 10 singles, recording two hit albums and are now about to release their first film, 1D3D.

And it looks as though their success is only about to increase, with the annoucnement of their first world stadium tour.

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Louis Tomlinson has more on his mind than One Direction’s upcoming world tour and new album, taking to Twitter to express his frustration after rival boy band The Wanted discussed the groups’ feud in a radio interview.

Earlier this week, The Wanted singer Jay McGuiness told an Australian morning show of the beef, “You hear comments in interviews, and they wind you up and vice versa… it’s kind of fake, and then also a few of the lads have wound me up personally.”

Bandmate Max George added, “I don’t mind a couple of them… I don’t mind Harry [Styles],” calling him a “top shagger” whose success with women he admires.

McGuiness said of Styles, “I think he’s retained manners and a bit of dignity, [but] some of them when they mouth off, it really gets under my skin.”

“Because it riles up loads of 14-year-old girls, [and] there’s no need for that,” said McGuiness.

On Saturday, Tomlinson seemed to respond, although he did not mention McGuiness or The Wanted by name.

The One Direction performer tweeted, “So frustrating when people talk the talk in the press but when it comes down to it not a word is said face to face!”

Of course, the on-and-off feud between the groups has erupted on social media in the past.

Stay tuned.

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