Just shy of "A Boy Named Goo"'s release, Tutuska was formally fired from the band by Rzeznik, and replaced by Mike Malinin. Tutuska has been quoted as stating he has no resentment toward the band's ongoing success. In a 1999 interview, Tutuska commented that "The only thing that bothers me to this very day is I never got my due as a songwriter [...] if I could give people a list of songs I wrote, I think it would shock them... A lot of the songs that had gotten airplay I'd written the lion's share of, but I had taken my third and now wanted everything." The Goo Goo Dolls had no comment on these allegations.