Sugar Ray

Sugar Ray crystallized the sound of Southern Californian pop during the Y2K era. 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. Among the departures on Floored was the breezy reggae tune "Fly," a song that became an unexpected number one hit. 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 ...