{"id":6201,"date":"2026-06-20T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/goo-goo-dolls-frontman-shudders-at-thought-of-having-sex-to-his-songs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:58:12","slug":"goo-goo-dolls-frontman-shudders-at-thought-of-having-sex-to-his-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/goo-goo-dolls-frontman-shudders-at-thought-of-having-sex-to-his-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Goo Goo Dolls frontman shudders at thought of having sex to his songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F131286034.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Goo Goo Dolls lead singer Johnny Rzeznik swears he\u2019s never put \u201cIris\u201d on a playlist and had sex to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, never!\u201d he exclaimed at the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame gala last week. \u201cI can\u2019t, oh my God, can you imagine that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rzeznik, 60, then mimed calling over to a woman, \u201cHey, baby, listen to this? Yeah, here it comes!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Johnny Rzeznik spoke to Page Six at the Songwriters Hall of Fame gala on June 11. <span class=\"credit\">Page Six<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>He was horrified by the idea of making love to one of his songs. <span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He then joked that he suspected there were musicians attending the same event \u201cwho have done that.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Rzeznik married Melina Gallo in 2005, and they share a daughter, Liliana.<\/p>\n<p>In 1985, Rzeznik<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/04\/09\/goo-goo-dolls-reunite-for-dizzy-up-the-girl-anniversary-tour\/\"> formed the Goo Goo Dolls<\/a> with bassist Robby Takac, and the band hit it big in the 1990s with a string of hits, including \u201cSlide,\u201d \u201cName\u201d and their biggest song, \u201cIris.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Rzeznik, seen here in 2025, is the lead singer of the Goo Goo Dolls. <span class=\"credit\">Penske Media via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The band, pictured above in 2024, had its biggest hits in the 90s. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for The Recording Academy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, Rzeznik is philosophical about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you going to do?\u201d he shrugged. \u201cI\u2019m just really lucky we get to play live and earn a living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy nominee said he remembered when he first heard a Goo Goo Dolls song on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in the supermarket at like three in the morning,\u201d he recalled, \u201cand it came out of the speaker at the ceiling, and I was like, \u2018Well, I always wanted people to hear my music, but in the supermarket, I don\u2019t know.\u2019 You know, I felt like I had jumped the shark at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Rzeznik, performing in 2023, called himself \u201cjust really lucky\u201d to get \u201cto play live and earn a living.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Taylor Swift was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame this year. <span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rzeznik was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame along with Walter Afanasieff, who co-wrote \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d with Mariah Carey, Terry Britten and Graham Lyle; Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS; Kenny Loggins; Alanis Morissette; Christopher \u201cTricky\u201d Stewart; and Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBad Blood\u201d singer, 36, made history as the\u00a0youngest woman ever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/12\/entertainment\/taylor-swift-makes-history-at-songwriters-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony\/\">inducted<\/a> into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>In her acceptance speech, she tearfully thanked her family \u2014 including her parents, Scott and Andrea Swift, and brother, Austin Swift \u2014 for \u201cuprooting their entire lives\u201d to move from Pennsylvania to Nashville, which she called \u201cthe songwriting capital of the world,\u201d in support of her music career.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/20\/entertainment\/goo-goo-dolls-frontman-shudders-at-thought-of-having-sex-to-his-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goo Goo Dolls lead singer Johnny Rzeznik swears he\u2019s never put \u201cIris\u201d on a playlist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131286034.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}