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Cover version woes: how does it feel when someone else sings your song?
Interview • August 16, 2019 • Unknown source
(..)‘It’s a good feeling to see someone half my age singing my song’John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls is one who understands that feeling well, having written “Iris”, a 1998 ballad that has become a modern classic. Like Sting, he is surprisingly zen about the experience of seeing his creation mangled by the grubby hands of artists around the world.“To me, it’s like a testament to the song,” he says. “Like, wow – you know, I wish I could make another song like that – it has really held together for 20 years. I mean, it’s a good feeling to see someone half my age singing my song.”Surely with so
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