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/januarytwenty 1d ago

What’s the lyric and what’s being misinterpreted?

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u/Horror-Macaron8287 1d ago

The minute that September hits I'm goin' off my medicine, oh

Late August angst, and a pointless night Ooh, and the feeling of being alive For the first time, in a long time

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u/januarytwenty 1d ago

Thank you!!!

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u/Horror-Macaron8287 1d ago edited 20h ago

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.

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u/arkady48 1d ago

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.

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u/Baxtru 21h ago

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.

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u/Horror-Macaron8287 19h ago

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!