Goo Goo Dolls lead singer Johnny Rzeznik has opened up about his brush with Beyonce during a 2000 promotional shoot for MTV’s Total Request Live.
The vocalist told TooFab about the time he met Beyonce 18 years back.
‘I remember her walking down a flight of stairs in that photoshoot and then looking at me and saying, ‘Hi, Goo Goo Doll’ and I was like ‘uh-uh-uh-uh.”
Memories: Goo Goo Dolls lead singer Johnny Rzeznik, 52, has opened up about his brush with Beyonce, 37, during a 2000 promotional shoot for MTV’s Total Request Live
The Buffalo, New York native, 52, said he was ‘just like shellshocked by’ the stunning singer.
‘I could not speak, I’m not kidding, man,’ the singer said. ‘She was just so, she had an aura – stunning. Still is.’
The occasion for the crossing of paths with the songstress, then a part of Destiny’s Child, came under the watch of photographer David LaChapelle, who organized the star-laden shoot prior to the 2000 Grammys.
Others included in the shot inlcuded Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Tyrese, Diddy and Justin Timberlake with his NSYNC bandmates.
Ensemble: Rzeznik’s (top, far R) brush with Bey (far L) came during a February 2000 shoot for TRL in LA
Salad days: The singer said of the band’s years atop the charts, ‘I always felt like it was a neighborhood that we were just kind of walking through; that we were never going to be allowed to move in’
Rzeznik told the outlet that he enjoyed the band’s ride through mainstream fame with late 90s hits such as Iris, Slide and Name.
‘I always felt like it was a neighborhood that we were just kind of walking through; that we were never going to be allowed to move in,’ he explained. ‘We had fun hanging out there that’s for sure.’
Rzeznik looked back at the chaotic nature of the day.
He said: ‘I remember David LaChapelle, the photographer, and all of these people painted gold, dressed up with televisions on their head and he’s blasting music and he’s screaming at everybody through a bullhorn and everybody was screaming back at him, ‘We can’t hear you. What do you want? We can’t hear you!”
Rzeznik described the gathering as ‘a big party’ and ‘a lot of fun.
‘It was loud, chaotic, and it was like, “Wow look at all of the famous people here,”‘ he said. ‘I get nervous around famous people.’
Rock on: Rzeznik was snapped last month onstage at a festival in Budapest, Hungary