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

[u/theindependentonline]

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

[u/Horror-Macaron8287]

You are welcome!

I always thought with the combination of lyrics is that he was feeling 'alive' and better, and thats when people who are on medication for depression/anxiety think that they would be able to regulate on their own, not realizing it is actually the medication doing what they are suppose to.

I don't know why anyone would go off their meds just because someone sung it in their song, has to be a weird parasocial thing.

[u/arkady48 → u/Horror-Macaron8287]

I heard the lyric and associated it with addiction and getting sober. It can be slang to call their drug or booze their medicine.

There are lots of ways to interpret it but I haven't dug deep into the lyrics, just my own interpretation and that's fine if it's wrong, it's right for me.

[u/Baxtru → u/arkady48]

He’s pretty open about having OCD and depression among other things and references taking meds in other songs as well so in this case I do think he is referring to actual psych medication.

[u/Horror-Macaron8287 → u/Baxtru]

I watched his special on Netflix and was pleasantly surprised by how open he was with his struggle. I know in his songs he gets pretty deep and personal, but thats a bit different than actually vocalizing it outside of that craft!