Edited sentence: A good example of the new sound was on the first single from the album, "Everything Counts", a commentary on the perceived greed of multinational corporations.Along with the music, Gore's songwriting was also rapidly evolving, focusing increasingly on political and social issues.In a retrospective review of the single, AllMusic journalist Ned Raggett wrote that the song marked a change in the band "with Martin Gore's songwriting abilities matched with an increasing ambition of the band as a whole