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Over the years, Taylor Swift has worked with several artists in the industry. This also includes the famed Goo Goo Dolls member, John Rzeznik. The two collaborated back in 2011, when Swift was on her \u2018Speak Now\u2019 tour. In a recent interview, the veteran musician recalled what it was like to perform and work together with the pop icon.<\/p>\n
John Rzeznik says something stood out to him while working with Taylor Swift<\/p>\n
Rzeznik recently sat down at the American Music Awards this year with PEOPLE to look back at some of the memorable moments from his career. This even included his collaboration with the \u2018Opalite\u2019 singer back in 2011, when the two sang together on her \u2018Speak Now\u2019 tour.At the time, the \u2018Slide\u2019 singer revealed that he saw something in Swift at the time that he started to admire in her. Adding more context, he stated, \u201cWhat impressed me, because at the time she was still very young, and I expected a bunch of handlers to come and deal with me because I was a guest, but she did. I just remember thinking, ‘This woman’s got her s— together.\u2019\u201d At the time, Swift was only 21 years old.<\/p>\n
John Rzeznik on how his song \u2018Iris\u2019 ended up getting even more popular after Taylor Swift\u2019s concert<\/p>\n
As per the singer, Goo Goo Dolls\u2019 song, \u2018Iris\u2019 was released in connection to the film, City of Angels\u2019, however, even after the film \u2018faded away\u2019, the song continued to make rounds, and became one of their most popular tunes. Years later, he and Swift shared the stage during her tour and together performed a version of \u2018Iris.\u2019Talking about the song\u2019s impact and performing it with Swift, he shared, \u201cI think that it connected more after that. And then I got to sing with Taylor Swift, and then all these other people just started covering it.\u201dDuring the interview, he was even asked whether he would consider performing at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce\u2019s upcoming wedding ceremony. The singer expressed his congratulations to the couple, and then continued that if he were approached about the matter, he would love to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the years, Taylor Swift has worked with several artists in the industry. This also includes the famed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,177820,19,17,91854,222120,337,222121,973],"class_list":["post-512392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-goo-goo-dolls","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-iris","tag-john-rzeznik","tag-music","tag-speak-now-tour","tag-taylor-swift"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116672504604750571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}