http://www.billboard.com/...g-premiere

Well, I wouldn't have expected anything so gratifying. This latest song could persuade me to change my mind about pre-ordering the new album.

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Identity said:

Well, I wasn't expected anything so gratifying. This latest song could persuade me to change my mind about pre-ordering the new album.

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Yeah, nice track! It sounds like they went back and did it Right this time around!

In that interview, Philip Bailey concedes the difference:

Bailey acknowledges that the familiar sound represents something of a changed perspective for him as well.

"For so many years I've been all about, 'You gotta go forward, you gotta go forward,' " he explains. "I finally had to buy into the fact that if I got a new Eagles music project and they sounded like Fleetwood Mac, I would be pretty pissed off, or if I bought a Stevie Wonder project and he sounded like Musiq Soulchild, I would be saying, 'What the heck is going on?' I had to really resolve in my mind that our music is that important to millions of people, and they really do expect Earth, Wind & Fire to sound like Earth, Wind & Fire -- and if you try to hard to go forward and lose who you are then you lose your base and you lose what's attractive to fans."

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