Their first band was a product of the times:
I think the blue-eyed soul heel turn at the turn of the millennium had to do with NSYNC by the end of the 90s:
And Christina Aguilera:
Heard playlists of all these songs around '02 when Songs About Jane dropped in department stores. Shyt didn't sound like R&B, but mall pop or store music.
Then they got the VH1 stimulus and kicked them into a different demographic of serious college-aged MOR music listeners of white people going to school in New York or California.
I think The Killers killed their momentum, thank God: