Sugar Ray cannily decided to double down on their pop side on 1999's 14:59, an album whose very title showed that the band were in on the joke (courtesy of its wink to Andy Warhol's notorious axiom that everybody would be famous for 15 minutes). Among the departures on Floored was the breezy reggae tune 'Fly,' a song that became an unexpected number one hit. Beginning their life as a mischievous nu-metal outfit with a shameless debt to Red Hot Chili Peppers, the group sharpened and expanded their sound with 1997's Floored.
Sugar Ray crystallized the sound of Southern Californian pop during the Y2K era.
