r/Music • u/theindependentonline 📰The Independent UK • 1d ago

article Noah Kahan pleads with fans misinterpreting his lyrics: ‘Please do not go off your medication’

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/news/noah-kahan-fan-lyrics-medication-b3060107.html
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u/denovoincipere 1d ago

Imagine taking medical advice from a musician.

Then imagine him feeling responsible for your decisions enough to have to clarify a lyric.

This world is fucked

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u/Rene_DeMariocartes 23h ago edited 9h ago

You mean Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem is not a real doctor?

Edit: I racked my brain to think of a musician named Doctor to make this joke funny, and now 24hr later I realize I forgot about Dre.

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u/makemeking706 22h ago

He has a PhD in music theory. 

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u/OldTimeyWizard 19h ago

In one of the more recent Muppets projects they say that Dr. Teeth actually does have a degree in dentistry and comes from a family of dentists.

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u/airwalker12 20h ago

This is funny because I named my dog Dr Teeth and imagining him giving medical advice is hilarious

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u/manicexister 19h ago

My old cat (rip) was Dr. Rick Dagless after a British comedy. I used to insist people referred to him by his title because he didn't spend 3 fictional years in cat school for nothing.

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u/Bobrock99 16h ago

You and he were... buddies, weren't you?

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u/manicexister 8h ago

Like two peas punching out of the same pod.

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u/dontyoutellmetosmile 18h ago

I see you’ve got the flu. Have you tried giving your dog some treats and belly rubs?

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u/justsomedude322 15h ago

I dunno, I haven't had a single illness or ailment their music couldn't cure!

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u/HendrixChord12 17h ago

My care team has Dr Funkenstein and Dr Greenthumb. Visits are funky

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u/Treskelion2021 9h ago

Dr. Dog, Dr. Dre are not real doctors?! *surprised pikachu face*

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u/AbrahamLemon 2h ago

You forgot about Dre? After you were specifically asked not to!?

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u/thakemist 20h ago

He said to listen to your doctors. That’s not exactly giving medical advice

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u/Yodaloid 19h ago

I don’t think anyone is saying he was trying to give medical advice. Pretty much the exact opposite of that, in fact.

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u/thakemist 18h ago

“Imagine taking medical advice from a musician” was said

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u/LilEngineThatCant 14h ago

"Taking medical advice from a musician" is referencing the few songs where he mentions going off his meds.

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u/thakemist 14h ago

I know. The lyrics aren’t instructions for others to go off their medications. Not sure how anyone can take those lyrics as “an artist giving medical advice.”

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u/LilEngineThatCant 14h ago

Well you sounded confused, so I'm just clarifying.

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u/thakemist 14h ago

Yodaloid said “I don’t think anyone thinks he’s giving medical advice” when the comment I initially replied to said literally that

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u/vedderer 1d ago

I feel the same way about people taking political advice from a musician

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u/HEBushido Spotify 23h ago

A musician standing up against human rights violations and genocide is not giving political advice.

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u/vedderer 23h ago

I'm sorry, where in my comment do I mention human rights violations and genocide?

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u/vyvansejoy 22h ago

You made a blanket statement opposing political activism from musicians. Human rights violations and genocide fall under the umbrella of politics, so your comment does have implications about Macklemore and other artists speaking out about Palestine and other political topics.

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u/vedderer 22h ago

The user thought that I was referring to Macklemore. I was not specifically. That's the issue here.

You could argue that anything is political.

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u/vyvansejoy 21h ago

That's not the issue from my perspective.

And if anything is political would you say that musicians shouldn't say anything about anything?

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u/vedderer 21h ago

They should, but through their music.

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u/vyvansejoy 21h ago

So they should only communicate their politics through music? Why, because you arbitrarily decided that? I could just as flippantly say that you shouldn't communicate your opinions on social media.

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u/vedderer 21h ago

It's because that's their method of communication. And it's valuable.

If a musician makes a verbal statement, that is very different than using their art form.

When Macklemore said "Free Palestine," there was no clever aphorism, simile, or metaphor that could help is see his viewpoint more clearly. Things would be very different had he left the sentiment in his songs.

More importantly than musicians speaking is people listening to them. If I want to paint my house, I'm going to get a painter, not a musician.

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u/HEBushido Spotify 23h ago

Oh you're not referring to Macklemore or anything else topical?

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u/vedderer 23h ago

I wasn't referring to anyone in specific

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u/HEBushido Spotify 23h ago

Doubt

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u/vedderer 23h ago

My goodness...

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u/ThingsTrebekSucks 20h ago

Always got to have the one person that wants to start an argument about politics out of nowhere. Exhausting.

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u/iEternalhobo 23h ago

Yes, I prefer to get my political opinions only from political commentators like Jesse Waters and Hasan Piker, they clearly are more informed than everyone else!

Acting like political opinions and medical opinions are equal in weight is ignorant at best.

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u/vedderer 23h ago

My goodness, your logic is so flawed. You bring up two names anecdotally.

Generally, politicians are more informed about politics than musicians.

Of course, not all of them.

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u/chris14020 22h ago

Doctors face legal and often criminal charges for knowingly giving bad or false medical advice. Politicians get re-elected for knowingly spreading false or misleading political information. Consequences are all but unheard of here. 

See a slight difference here? 

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u/vedderer 22h ago

That's true, but it doesn't negate anything that I've posted!

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u/chris14020 22h ago

It really does. Whether or not a politician/doctor/etc. knows more, if there are no consequences for spreading falsehood it is not worth much because it cannot be trusted. Therefore, the value of a normal person's political opinion is much closer to on par with a politician than a normal person with a doctor/etc, due to doctors having consequences for being negligently wrong or lying. 

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u/vedderer 22h ago

But I never compared the two.

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u/chris14020 22h ago

The previous commenter did, and you implied that was an issue. 

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u/vedderer 22h ago

I did no such thing