Ronnie DeVoe says, “That medley right there, when we were kids, before ‘Candy Girl’ came out, we would sit in a room and listen to that live album by the Jackson 5 and just close our eyes and imagine the possibilities.”
Asked how it felt to be compared so often to the Jackson 5 when they were starting out, Bell says, “It’s something that we definitely took as a compliment. We performed a lot of their songs in our shows, at talent shows, when we were trying to get started.
“And when ‘Candy Girl’ came out, it was definitely reminiscent of ‘ABC’ and the Jackson 5’s whole sound. So we loved hearing that. After awhile, we wanted to get to a point where we established our own identity that, at some point, other artists would be compared to us.
“But just to be spoken in the same breath as the Jacksons and their legacy is something we’ll never get tired of.”
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