Bad Luck

Today I was back in 2021 which really did surprise me because I thought I was listening to a 2024 album. It turns out that the current number 70 album is Noah Kahan’s 2021 album ‘I was/I am’.

I’ve listened to Noah Kahan before on the blog here. Stick Season was his 2022 album which was at number 3 on the chart when I listened to it. And here we are with ‘I was/I am’ is his 2021 entering the UK album chart for the first time. Where will it reach over the next few years? Noah Kahan is the king of moving up the chart.

This album was very pop whereas ‘Stick Season’ was far more folk.

My favourite song was Bad Luck. I listened to this album 3 times today and everytime this song turned up I though he was saying he was a bad duck. And I’ve met some bad ducks so I felt like I understood the metaphor but no, it wasn’t a metaphors…he’s just bad luck.

Northern Attitude

Today I listened to the current number 3 album ‘Stick Season’ by Noah Kahan.

This is not a new album, no, it was released in 2022. And it’s been climbing since. The lead single from this album first entered the UK charts in October 2023. And it’s been climbing. It started at number 68 and has now spent the last 6 weeks at number 1 in the singles Charts.

The story is similar for the album, it entered the charts at 17, dropped to 64 and has been climbing back up since. Its highest point is number 2 at the moment but who knows what it’s doing.

This is the second day of folk music but this is American folk and honestly, it’s also very pop-influenced and less political.

I was initially hopeful, that when I read the first song title ‘Northern Attitude’ I could again discuss fake northern accents. I honestly don’t know what northern accents are for Americans but I know it is cold there and Noah Kahan uses the coldness and lack of light as a defence should you ever find him difficult to deal with.

When I first looked up the album on Amazon Music it said it was 2 hours long with 30 songs and I couldn’t be coping with that. However, the actual album was 14 tracks long and 55 minutes. Which is too long and too short all at the same time.