Fifth Harmony are the best thing to come out of The X-Factor – and you’ve probably never even heard of them.

Actually, that’s not entirely fair. Familar with Work From Home? No, not the Rihanna song – the other one? Yep. That’s our gals.

It’s their first time in Ireland – something they’ll proceed to mention at least five times over the course of the evening. It’s the 7/27 Tour, signifying the date in which the band were thrown together by Simon Cowell and his army of musical henchman.

Styled as sexy air hostesses (the graphics throughout mimic a long-haul flight to ‘Independence Island’, wherever that is geographically), the girls open with album track That’s My Girl. Used in promotional videos throughout Rio 2020 for America’s female athletes, it’s just as much of a motivational, stompin’ track live. However, it’s also ultimately where they reveal themselves to be pretty piss poor dancers.

Sledgehammer should have been the track that launched them internationally, but didn’t, and that’s down to nothing but poor promotion. Leagues ahead of Work From Home, it’s here that Camilla Cabello (undoubtedly the anchor of the band, not that any of them would ever admit that) demonstrates her envious vocal abilities, and the choreography gets somewhat tighter.

Forget power ballads, it’s all about empowerment ballads – Reflection highlights the key factor that makes them a completely different girlband. While fully embracing their sexuality, they’re musical output is strongly rooted in feminism.

Scared Of Happy sees the girls lose breath more than once when singing the uptempo pop number. Ballad Write On Me sees them catch a break with a good ol’ cliched stair-sit. I Lied, again, shows that they’re perfectly capable of walking and singing in sync. Anything else? Not so much.

Squeeze attempts to incorporate umbrellas into the choreography, which sees one of the girls forgetting to pick it up and actually use it along with the other girls. It’s unbearably distracting.

The girls’ band perform an insane rock cover of Hotline Bling while they change, before launching into BO$$. The vocals are consistent, the dance breaks are not. One of them talks about how good the fish and chips are here. It’s hard to discern who’s who or who does what within the band – Camilla stands out because she’s the strongest vocally. It’s near impossible to put names to faces with the other four.

Worth It – their other monster hit, a collaboration with Kid Ink – is the most together performance of the night. There’s no encore – Work From Home is a satisfactory ending for fair-weather fans and hardcore Harmonizers.

Above all else, Fifth Harmony’s music is a lot of fun, and they can all sing. It is abundantly clear that as a group, they are running their course – something they’ve alluded to in interviews. Camilla is safely lined up to have a successful solo career when they eventually call time as a group, with a successful collaboration with Charlie Puth under her belt. Every girl seems to be out for themselves on stage, doing their own variation of whatever dance move is up next. And still, not one of them manages to stand out.

With such a cracking back catalogue of pop and R&B tunes, they manage to do it justice – but only just.