Album: Little Mix, DNA (Syco)

We didn't know how lucky we were. In five short years, we've fallen from the Sugababes and Girls Aloud to the Saturdays and Little Mix.

The debut from last year's X Factor winners is packed with vague, uplifting homilies about staying strong, being in love and so on. The main duty of pop is to be catchy, and it's a duty which DNA mostly shirks miserably. T-Boz from TLC, who guests, must be wondering how girl pop went from CrazySexyCool to BoringSexlessNaff.