” My first red carpet experience was this year. We recorded a lot of it analog, and then dumped it in the computer to do whatever work needed to be done on it then. To me, that particular song is a satirical sort of take on fame at this point in time, but I wanted to go back to something a little bit more raw. I’m just poking celebrity culture because it’s so annoying. There’s a song on the album called “ Yeah, I Like You ,” which came from sitting around the house and dipping into social media a little too much or looking at celebrity culture. Also, a lot of arrangement goes into the production and instrumentation, finding the right mix of sounds, and I wanted to stretch it out. But, to me, producing, it’s like, how can I use all this machinery to capture a moment? Using the studio as an instrument, the same way you use a guitar or layering textures of sound, and experimenting with different combinations of things - that’s what the production, to me, is about. Hopefully, most of your writing is done by the time you get to producing it. Can you tell me more about the difference between just writing and producing - how you approach the creative process differently, and the mentality that’s required to do production versus just writing?
#The red carpet world of goo full
This was your first time producing a full album. “You Are the Answer” - that was a song that came out of trying to find some hope. “Going Crazy,” “Let the Sun” - that song is about inequality in this country, everywhere, in the whole world. The material on the album is very, very much - not all of it, but some of it - reflective of that time.
Everything is sort of locked to a grid and a tempo, and it’s just like, ‘Nah, man, no. There’s a human feel in our live performance that wasn’t captured, really, on previous albums, because the general way people make records now with computers is, they’re very regimented. I also wanted to record the album semi-live, at least get the drums and the bass, get the rhythm section down. But I decided I wanted to do it myself, because I wanted a straight line from my brain to the tape, and it was fun. Then I decided, I don’t want to deal with a producer, because I hear one thing in my head, and then it comes out completely different - which is not always a bad thing. That’s where the songs started to take shape. We put out “It’s Christmas All Over,” and then we did an EP, and then I went up to Buffalo and I started writing the songs for “Chaos in Bloom.” Buffalo is where I grew up, and I draw inspiration from my home. We made a whole album, we created our own bubble, tested everybody, stayed within that bubble. I can’t tour - okay, well, somebody asked me to write a Christmas song, so I decided to make a Christmas record. I’m gonna sit down, and then start working my ass off.’ So I was like, ‘Well, how am I gonna get through this? Oh, I know exactly what I’m gonna do. When everybody was trying all these things - ‘Oh, we’re gonna do these online Zoom concerts, that’ll do it!’ - all these stupid ideas, we were really grasping for straws. I’m sitting around the house and I’m doing what I can, and I started to get very, very anxious, like, ‘Am I ever going to work again? Am I ever going to be able to get out there?’ I just feel like our society is fractured into these tiny little groups, and we all go off to our own corner and sit there and agree with each other and don’t try to understand anyone else. But I do observe what’s going on in my home, in my country. I’m not being political I’m never being political.
I just pray that our society can move forward. The style of discourse in this country has changed dramatically, and it just looks like a food fight all the time. Then the politicization of the whole situation was crazy, and then, in the midst of all of this, there’s this enormous social justice movement that had to thrust itself into action. If you remember back to the beginning of it, we all had that first person in our life that got COVID early, and nobody knew what the hell was going on, and it was really scary, and people were dying. Tell me about how you all navigated the pandemic.
For the last two years, there’s been plenty of chaos in bloom pretty much everywhere. LEO: Chaos in Bloom - obviously, it’s an apt title. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. LEO spoke with Rzeznik about how the album came together, the red carpet experience, growing up around strong women and more. The band released their newest album, Chaos In Bloom, earlier this year, which marked frontman John Rzeznik’s first time producing a full album. Goo Goo Dolls, an alt-rock band best known for their hit single “Iris,” will play the Louisville Palace next Wednesday, Nov.
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