"Blurry" also found success outside the US, reaching the top 20 in Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Puddle of Mudd played small shows in the Kansas City area for most of the 1990s with little mainstream success.

[3] However, singer Wes Scantlin got a demo tape to Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst when Limp Bizkit were in town on October 12, 1999, on the Family Values Tour, and Durst's label Flawless Records signed him to a recording contract.

He spent his days fiddling with his acoustic guitar in a hotel room on Hollywood Boulevard, where he reworked a previous Puddle of Mudd song called "Electron Moon" into "Blurry".

[5][6] “’Blurry’ was basically about being flown to freaking Los Angeles and y’know, I didn't have any friends so they had put me into a hotel room,” Scantlin told American Songwriter.