Sugar Ray has always held an uneasy equilibrium between pop and nu metal rock. With 14:59, the band stopped worrying about which style they were trying to do and just played whatever creative idea just came to them at the time. The result is a unique mix--a cover of an 80s song, a few pop songs, and some heavy metal opening and closing jams just for good measure. The critics might have had mixed opinions about it, but it was a pretty neat twist for the nu metal scene. Sadly, the band gradually moved more to their pop side on later albums.