Foo Fighters Renamed Album 'Your Favorite Toy' to Avoid Conflict With 'Wicked: For Good'
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Emily Zemler
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Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl revealed in a new interview that the band's album 'Your Favorite Toy' was originally going to be titled 'For Good,' after the title track's original name. However, they changed it to avoid confusion with the film 'Wicked: For Good.' The lyric 'for good' appears in the song 'Your Favorite Toy,' and Grohl felt it worked well as both a song and album title, but ultimately decided to avoid the conflict.
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· 3 pulledI 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.'
I was like, 'Oh that's a good title, not only for the song but for the album.' It could have more than a
Foo Fighters changed the name of their new album, 'Your Favorite Toy,' to avoid a conflict with the film 'Wicked: For Good.'
