Fifth Harmony alumna Ally Brooke reflects on the early days of the girl group’s time together.
During an appearance on Tuesday’s episode of Keke Palmer’s Honey, this is Keke Palmer podcast, Brooke, 30, revealed that Simon Cowell — one of the The X factor judges who were responsible for forming the group — told her that she was one of the most important pieces of the puzzle for the group’s success.
“After we were formed, Simon pulled me aside and said, ‘You’re the glue that holds the group together,'” she recalled. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, what?’ Like, it was so amazing what he said and it was so… it was like a crown he was giving me.”
Asked by Palmer, 30, how the Syco Records executive knew she would be the “glue”, Brooke said Cowell took into account both her age and the group’s dynamic.
“I think he just saw that in me, and probably because I was older, he saw me throughout the competition,” she said. “He saw my tenacity and the way I held myself, and then the fact that I was older. All that.”
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Fifth Harmony, which also consists of Normani, Dinah Jane, Lauren Jauregui and Camila Cabello, was formed by Cowell, 64, and several other presenters during The X factorSeason 2012 According to Brooke, the title given to her by Cowell caused a bit of pressure, but singing together as a group paid off.
“When we sang together, I just knew something was happening,” she said. “I felt something. It was crazy, it really was. Just so I know you have something in your hands.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, host Palmer asked Brooke about the dynamic that emerged between the girls later in the band’s history, as fans picked favorites and put their own personas on each of the members.
“That was really hard, because, you know, you just want to be yourself and you want to be represented, and sometimes that wasn’t the case,” Brooke recalled. “I remember our first single – I had one line, literally one line, and I was like… it was three words or something, and I was so humbled.”
“People were commenting online, ‘Oh, Ally wasn’t good enough’ or whatever, and it must have been hard at first because … you want to be out there and you want to be seen,” she continued. “But eventually it faded and I feel like everyone got their moment to shine.”
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Cabello, 27, left the group in 2016, and the group disbanded completely two years later. Although there have been rumors for years that the group could soon reunite, sources recently said Rolling stone that it is quite unlikely that the entire group will be reunited.
Despite this, the various girl group members supported each other and even collaborated after the hiatus. Recently, Brooke and Jane reunited for December’s cover of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” complete with a sweet music video.
“I’m beyond excited to be back together with my former Fifth Harmony friend Dina!” Brooke wrote in a statement at the time. “There are no words to explain how it feels to reunite our collaboration! We hope to bring a lot of happiness to our fans and the world with our reunion!”
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