Dave Grohl didn’t originally want to use Your Favorite Toy as the title for Foo Fighters new album, but he was edged out of his original choice by Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and the rest of the cast of the blockbuster musical Wicked: For Good.
He told the tale in an interview on Radio X, saying, “You know what I wanted to call the record? I wanted to call the record For Good, because that song, ‘Your Favorite Toy,’ … at first I called it For Good. In that song, ‘Your Favorite Toy,’ it says, ‘Get back, hear that boy?/ Someone threw away/ Your favorite toy for good.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a good, not only title for the song but also for the album.”
He went on to say that he soon had to change course. “It could have more than a few meanings, but I’m like, ‘That’s kind of nice.’ And then that Wicked movie came out and it’s called Wicked: For Good and I was so pissed! So then I changed the title of the song and it just became the title of the album.”
Wicked: For Good ended up notching $342 million at the box office — even more than the Foos’ rack up on tour. Speaking of which, they’ll perform songs from the new album, as well as some older hits, at the Welcome to Rockville festival in Daytona Beach on May 8th.
