A French version of "Hemi-Vision"'s single " Up Baby" was recorded, titled "Ouvres-Toi Bébé", for radio stations in Quebec. The song gained widespread airplay in the province, and for their next album, 1998's Platinum-selling "Heated", the band recorded a French version of each single they released; the French songs were collected on the 1999 EP "Chauffe à bloc". Also that year, Johnson and Hoppe began to perform several acoustic shows as a duo, affectionately nicknamed "Big Sugar Acoustic - Two Fools on Stools" that included equal amounts of entertaining repartee and music.