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I know people aren't sitting on the edge of their seats waiting for a Sugar Ray record. When the rest of the band pitched a song they'd been working on — "Fly" — McGrath was so annoyed by it that he initially said that if they were going this way, then he was quitting.

He told Billboard"We have realistic views of how the music industry is today. Every decade has things that look cringey 20 years later, and Mark McGrath told GQ that he's well aware of the fact that he played a big role in making spikey hair with highlights a thing.

These guys were learning how to play better, heaven forbid. Their album "In the Pursuit of Leisure," sold a measlycopies, and it was a dismal enough failure that it made frontman Mark McGrath realize he'd better find a backup job — as a TV host. In fact, their album, "," was a nod to the claim that they should enjoy their 15 minutes of fame, because that's all they were going to get.

— Sugar Ray vocalist and TV personality Mark McGrath admitted today that he now embraces being called “Sugar Gay” after years of considering the moniker harassment, stunned sources confirmed. Sugar Ray was one of the '90s-era juggernauts that shaped the musical landscape of the decade, playing in the background as teens across America drove their parents' car to the record store for the first time, waited in line for tickets to the re-release of "Star Wars," and partied the night away in that off-the-beaten path place that every small town has.

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Mark McGrath on Sugar : Man I remember back in the day getting called gay could be devastating on the playground and destroy your playground cred

Mark McGrath Goes Ballistic On A Fan, Wants Him Beat Up & R@ped For Calling Him Sugar Gay In L.A. The Hollywood Fix M subscribers Subscribe. That ended up being fortuitous: The band was dropped by their record label inand Sugar Ray wouldn't put out another album for three years after that.

He described the '90s as the last hurrah of garage bands and ordinary people who could make it big if they had the talent and the guts, and explained the enduring love of the era: "You look back on that It took a while for the stink of the nineties to go away, because nothing replaced it.

By the time "Music for Cougars" was released, McGrath was honest about the fact that they did it because they wanted to and definitely didn't have people beating down their doors. A one-and-a-half-star review by the Los Angeles Times was par for the course, calling the whole package "infantile Sugar Ray would be catapulted to superstardom in the late '90s, but like anything else shot from a catapult, they came down hard.

He also confirmed that inhe was still doing it — only it was covering up gray. And I just wanted to scream and yell because I was scared to be onstage in the first place. They wholeheartedly condemned the band, starting with onstage behavior they called "impulsively idiotic" and labeling their music "frat-rock inanity.

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Rather than defending their musical prowess, McGrath has been consistently self-deprecating, and explained: "It bothers my bandmates and it bothers other people around me, that I kind of put it down so much, but I just think we got so lucky. But his outrage wasn't necessarily because he hated the music, and after a little enlightenment hit before a Rolling Stone interview, McGrath confessed that he had been dealing with something much more difficult than differing musical tastes.

Nothing replaced the nineties, even though the decade was over. When Sugar Ray released their debut album, it's safe to say that things didn't go smoothly. Honestly, "Sugar Gay" gives me the giggles because it is the most juvenile of insults, but Mark McGrath's fragile masculinity unfortunately gets in the way.

And "Someday?

Going hand-in-hand with the criticism of their look was the relentless criticism of their music, which McGrath says they all acknowledged. But that wasn't the point. It was purely because we love to make music. It's a scientific fact probably that anyone who was around for the '90s has no choice but to sing along when Sugar Ray's "Fly" starts playing.