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Foo Fighters Renamed Album to Avoid Clash with ‘Wicked: For Good’

The rock band’s 12th LP, now titled Your Favorite Toy, was recently released after a name change to prevent conflict with the musical movie.

Rolling Stone·May 4, 2026·via Rolling Stone

Foo Fighters Renamed Album to Avoid Clash with ‘Wicked: For Good’

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Foo Fighters Changed the Name of Their New Album To Avoid Conflict With ‘Wicked: For Good’

The rock band recently released their 12th LP, Your Favorite Toy

By Emily Zemler

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May 4, 2026

Foo Fighters new album, Your Favorite Toy , almost had a completely different title. The album, released in April, was initially named after the title track, which was originally dubbed “For Good.”

“I wanted to call the record For Good , because that song, ‘Your Favorite Toy,’ at first I called it ‘For Good,'” Dave Grohl told Radio X’s John Kennedy in a new interview. “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 few meanings.”

The title took on a different meaning when blockbuster sequel Wicked : For Good was released last year. “I was so pissed,” Grohl said. “So then I changed the title of the song and then it just became the title of the album.”

Wicked: For Good arrived in theaters in November. It was the second half of Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical, following 2024’s Wicked , and starred Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande . Chu explained to Variety why they decided to change the title from Wicked: Part Two to reflect the musical’s penultimate musical number.

“Who wants a movie called Wicked: Part Two ?” the filmmaker said. “On the script, it always said, ‘For Good,’ and so it was just a point of like, ‘Do we really want to call this “Part Two”?’ And nobody wants that. … I mean, that’s the destination. ‘For Good,’ we know, is like, ‘Where are we going with this movie? Let’s finish this thing.'”