“I was just so excited by the process and how different it is.” Rzeznik was also inspired by a 2014 collaboration he did with dance duo Cash Cash on a song called “Lightning.” “I had always been really interested in how they make that kind of music, so I went and sat with them and watched and it’s impressive,” he says. With the goal of pushing himself past his comfort zone, Rzeznik enlisted some of his favorite songwriters and producers to collaborate with on the band’s new album Boxes, including Gregg Wattenberg (with whom Rzeznik wrote four songs on the Goos’ 2013 album Magnetic), Wattenberg’s production partner Derek Fuhrmann, and Drew Pearson (who has worked with Phillip Phillips and OneRepublic). Not just to keep you relevant, but to keep you sane, creative, and humble.” “When you’ve been doing this as long as I have, you need outside input. “I’ve been doing that for years and it would have resulted in the same old shit,” he says. So when it came time to think about making a new Goo Goo Dolls album, Rzeznik realized that he didn’t want to sit in a room by himself and try to write songs. I was also listening to a lot of David Bowie, and thinking about how he went from writing ‘Scary Monsters’ to ‘Let’s Dance’ and what an insane, radical change that was.” And I thought ‘You know what? She’s reinventing herself.’ And it dawned on me that that’s what you always have to do. “Every time we got in the car, we listened to that album.
“My wife was listening to Taylor Swift’s 1989 a lot,” he recalls. Last year, Goo Goo Dolls singer and guitarist John Rzeznik was thinking a lot about change.
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