Over a ten-year span, the Los Angeles-based
Sweetbox collective released seven albums and worked through five lead singers. With success in European and Japanese dance clubs,
The Next Generation marked the group's first full-length release with singer Jamie Pineda, and a deeper movement toward the mixing of classical and pop.
The Next Generation included a major hit in "We Can Work It Out," which immediately made its way onto digital charts the Japanese Billboard charts, and then pushed the full-length album into the Oricon international charts.