Little Mix And Nicki Minaj's 'Woman Like Me' Is Girl Power At Its Loudest And Proudest

The wait is over: Little Mix — the British girl order beyond such sassy, brassy anthems as "Power," "Hair," and "Salute" — are back and badder than ever.


For the lead single off their upcoming fifth album, the females joined forces with Nicki Minaj for "Woman Like Me," a reggae-tinged jam co-written by Ed Sheeran and Jess Glynne. It puts Little Mix back in familiar, boss-minded, pop-powered terrain, as they wonder whether a guy could fall for a strong, abnormal woman.


"I habitually mention what I'm feeling / I was place on Earth without a zip on my mouth," Jesy Nelson and Leigh-Anne Pinnock start, before Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards ask on the chorus: "My momma routinely mentioned, 'Girl, you're trouble' and / And right now I wonder, could you fall for a woman like me?" Minaj, meanwhile, comes through with characteristically confident bars about being "a bad Trini bitch": "Greatest of all time, 'cause I'm a chameleon / I switch it up for every era, I'm really bomb / These bitches really wanna be Nicki, I'm really mom."


A few days before the release of "Woman Like Me," Little Mix shared on Instagram that the song is "about celebrating females in each shape and form." They added, "We don’t feel like there really are enough places to celebrate females now. So we wanted to create one!"


Another reason for them to celebrate? The teamwork marks a true full-circle moment for Little Mix, who covered Nicki's hit "Super Bass" while competing on the U.K.'S The X Factor way back in 2011. In a radio interview on Friday morning, the ladies discussed about what "a dream" it's been to collaborate with Nicki, and the rapper responded in her own Instagram post, writing, "Dear Females, 7 years later, & here we are. With the best song! All things in time right? Thank you for having me."


"Woman Like Me" may be a brilliant song" for Nicki in more ways than one — she only needs one more Billboard Hot 100 entry to be the opening female artist in history with 100 entries. Will the Little Mix collab be the one gives her that milestone? We'll find out soon!