It was probably just a funny coincidence that, back in February, Foo Fighters announced a new album called Your Favorite Toy on the exact same day that Pixar released the trailer for another Toy Story movie. But it feels like something that could\u2019ve been drummed up during a Disney\/Sony power lunch. After all, what is Dave Grohl if not the Woody Pride of rock: the all-round nice-guy ringleader who\u2019s always trying to stoke our sentimental attachments to analog-era joys in an ever-changing world. And like Woody, he\u2019s keenly aware that our favorite toys inevitably get taken for granted, and he\u2019ll do anything in his power\u2014disco makeovers, documentaries, horror movies, fam jams, Angine de Poitrine endorsements\u2014to avoid getting tossed into the proverbial donation bin.<\/p>\n
In recent years, Grohl has been in the news for less cheerful reasons.\u00a0Your Favorite Toy<\/em>\u00a0is the second Foo Fighters album to arrive in the wake of life-altering events: In the case of 2023\u2019s\u00a0But Here We Are<\/em>, it was the sudden death of Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins and the passing of Grohl\u2019s mother, Virginia;\u00a0Your Favorite Toy<\/em>, meanwhile, follows the bombshell admission that even the most well-adjusted rock star on the planet is not immune to\u00a0tabloid scandal. Given all that he\u2019s been through of late, the Foo Fighters frontman has effectively become the target audience for the\u00a0life-coach\u00a0aphorisms\u00a0of a Foo Fighters song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was probably just a funny coincidence that, back in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,28,32,31],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dave-grohl","tag-fool-fighters-news","tag-pearl-jam","tag-taylor-hawkins"],"yoast_head":"\n