What does dizzy up the girl mean

Neither of us are actors. It was fun doing it. Honest to god. I never once got sick of playing that song. To experience a gift like that is pretty amazing. A lot of parts that [came with fame] were very disingenuous. All of a sudden all these girls wanted to talk to me that never wanted to talk to me before. Was that weird at the time? I mean, I know how odd I feel as a year-old walking into Urban Outfitters. Was that at all weird just being in your early 30s and playing to just a giant crowd of year-olds who are triple-kissing each other or whatever?

Whenever I got involved in those situations, I would go in, I would sit on the bus or in the dressing room or wherever I was and then I would get called to do my bit and we would get out of there as fast as possible. The director for City Of Angels , we sort of had a disagreement. I did two songs for a Disney movie which was probably the most incredible experience in my life, getting to work with all these people from Disney.

They have a way that they work. I was so blown away that a couple of hundred people could work together so closely for such a long period of time and really support each other and support the project to make it a success. Whose decision was it to add string arrangements? Just a name that came out of my mouth in the studio.

I appreciate that. That song is very much East Side Story kind of thing. That was a not-so-apocryphal tale about some hard choices and dealing with a very rigid culture with a lot of demands put on the people who are part of that community, whether it was religious pressure, family pressure. Then we finally got a hit and instead of rooting for us, they were like, "Fuck you, man, you guys suck now.

You sold out. Rzeznik: Anthony DeCurtis wrote one that was particularly nasty. But whatever, it doesn't matter. Rzeznik: I don't remember what it was about, but I remember feeling like, "Wow. Robby [pointed out], "Look, if nobody knows who you are, the only people that write about you are people that like you. Sometimes it hurts, but you learn to develop a thick skin. Editor's note: Rzeznik is likely referring to this Rolling Stone review of 's Gutterflower. Do you think they reshaped what came after?

Rzeznik: I was just growing and developing as a writer. I didn't want to write punk rock songs anymore. I felt like, "Well I played that out; It was fun. I think that's kind of silly. Robby, your Dizzy songs like "January Friend" and "Full Forever" are a bit more punk-ish than what's on the rest of the album. Did you feel like you were keeping some of the spirit of the earlier years alive? Takac: I don't know if I was necessarily keeping it alive.

I think people progress at different paces, different things influence them. I think I was a little slower to leave that vibe behind. The Replacements were such an influence on the earlier albums; when you started to leave the punk world behind, who were the artists you looked up to? Rzeznik: We had started looking backwards.

I thought Bob Mould was really brilliant -- lyrically and his guitar playing. And I love all those early Soul Asylum records. Minneapolis was my Seattle. But everybody for 20 years just called it up, "Oh you guys love The Replacements. All I know is [Paul] Westerberg wasn't the first guy that wrote a lot of those songs. We all borrow. What are some other misconceptions people have of where the Goo Goo Dolls came from? Rzeznik: We shoved it down everyone's throats that we were from Buffalo.

We were living in an industrial ghost town at the time and for some reason, we were incredibly proud of that. We found a building that was condemned and set up our rehearsal room in it.

The main artery was Broadway and it was dying as soon as all the factories closed. The demographics were changing and that whole part of town -- the people I grew up with, the generation before me, there were some really great people but there were also some unbelievably ignorant It was a blue collar, immigrant community so everybody's fighting for a scrap of bread.

That was my take on what I saw growing up: very Catholic, very blue collar, lots of poverty, lots of drugs and alcoholism, lots of domestic violence.

It was built into the fabric of what that community was all about. The other big hits on the album, "Slide" and "Black Balloon," also deal with really heavy subject matter.

Rzeznik: I was thinking a lot about the neighborhood I grew up in. They're trying to figure out if they're going to keep the baby or if she's going to get an abortion or if they're just going to run away. Everybody grew up way too fast. All of a sudden, I bet you guys had a lot more money than you'd ever seen before. Rzeznik: I didn't have a checkbook or a credit card until I was 30 years old. I didn't have any money. Robby and I literally lived within the cracks of society.

I was a hot dog vendor and a bartender. We lived in an attic in Buffalo and paid our rent in cash. I rode a bike to work Then we went out to Los Angeles. Once Dizzy Up the Girl settled in and you had one, two, three hit singles, how did your lives change the most? Rzeznik: Well, people were showing up at our shows [ Laughs ]. Robby and I looked at each other and said, "We better play as many shows as possible because you don't know how long this is going to last.

And it paid it off. But it could have easily gone the other way. The Goo Goo Dolls began as scrappy post-Replacements rockers making their way through the dives of American's underground punk scene, which meant they couldn't start running singles up the pop charts without touching off a backlash.

It was another seven years and three more records before we got any kind of attention. Or am I supposed to do what I like? People have told me, 'You should try to correct that. Just so I know one amazing guitar solo. He did spend time learning song the Goo Goo Doll's upcoming tour, which they're launching in Phoenix on Sept. To honor the 20th anniversary of "Dizzy Up the Girl," they're playing the entire album straight through. And I never write anything down. So it was difficult digging through the songs and trying to get them right.

And it was like wow, what an interesting time in my life.