It was released by Trackmasters Entertainment and Columbia Records on May 19, 1999 in the United States.

A R&B and pop album, with hip hop and teen pop influences,[2] the album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on April 10, 2000.

[3] and has sold 1.5 million copies to date.

[4] AllMusic criticized the album as mediocre "generic urban soul" with "serviceable" production, sometimes hitting the mark but more often not.

[2] Entertainment Weekly gave the album a C− grade, criticizing the songs as derivative "mimicry" of other groups, saying that the girls "slide from genre to genre with all the care and discrimination of a bar mitzvah band.