Noah Kahan reveals why his childhood song got an unexpected reaction from his school
He was just nine-years-old when he performed it
'Stick Season' singer Noah Kahan took the world by storm when his song went viral on TikTok back in 2022. Now 27, the singer has been writing songs from a very young age, and joined Tom Green on Hits Radio where he revealed why one of his early songs got some unexpected attention from his school.
Known for his hits including 'Homesick' and 'Northern Attitude', Noah revealed that back when he was just nine-years-old he performed a song about hating a particular day of the week. Noah performed the song called 'Wednesdays Are The Worst Days of My Life', in front of the audience of around 500 people, however after his performance he got a visit from the school therapist.
He told Tom: "I believe it was connected, or maybe it was just a bunch of other different behaviours, but I remember a lady came into our class and was like, ‘can I talk to Noah? and I was like, ‘oh, I'm in trouble’. She's like, ‘no, you're not in trouble’, like, saying it so much I'm like, ‘I'm in some other kind of trouble!'
"So yeah, she took me to her office and I wrote about... she made me draw pictures of my mom and dad. I don't know, maybe she thought that was gonna draw like devil horns on my dad or something, but it was just like here's two white people. Well, like crayon."
Noah went on to sing some of the lyrics: "Wednesdays are the worst days of my life. Nobody knows..."
Before continuing: "It was in four four (beats per bar). It was just kind of a little bit boring, it was just so depressing, it was too depressing for a nine-year-old."
Noah is best-known for his hit 'Stick Season', a song about the autumn in the state where he grew up, Vermont. He told Tom: "It (the song) just felt incredibly niche, a regional song about a regional term that people in Vermont, not a lot of them even know what it is.
"It's kinda an older colloquialism used by older people, in my experience, that talk about Stick Season, to see it connect with so many people, like people finding their own meaning for it too, it's just so beautiful. The greatest thing about music is to watch something specific connect universally."
You can hear 'Stick Season' on Hits Radio.
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