“When music is all about ‘making it’ and wearing ‘bling-bling’ and ‘all them bitches,’ and the idea that without that stuff you're nothing — that is a bad influence for your fans. At least with most gothic or hard rock music, it’s about feeling good about yourself.”
When his own band, the Temptones, won a local talent competition, the prize was to record a single with producers Gamble and Huff, who would shortly change the face of pop with the symphonic soul and disco on their Philadelphia International label.
Ken Gamble attempted to lure Hall to the new label as an artist and writer, but he chose to move to New York with Oates. âWe were trying to forge our own version of the Philly sound, and we thought that the only way we could do that was by separating ourselves from Gamble and Huff â they were doing what they were doing, and we wanted to do something different.â