Little Mix say they want more people to realise that they write their own music.

The girl group won the 2011 UK X Factor and as a result, accusations that they are corporate puppets devoid of creativity have occasionally emerged.

However, they are credited as writers on most of their songs and speaking to Fault magazine, Perrie Edwards said that they want that fact to be better known.

Talking about Little Mix's latest album 'Salute', she said: "Well we write all our own music, it’s important to us that people know that. Every song writing session is different."

Jesy Nelson added: "Yeah, one time we went into the studio knowing we want to write an uplifting, feel-good song. We started making sound effects and playing with them until we came across something we really liked. But if we’re in a sad mood, not as mental as we usually are, we’ll write a more serious, sad song. But ‘Mood’ came along when we were all really happy and hyper."

Leigh-Anne Pinnock chimed in: "Everyone just keeps calling us a ‘manufactured girl band’ and that isn’t the case at all. We write our own music, we’re involved in absolutely everything. Everything comes from us, it’s as raw as it gets."