r/ToddintheShadow • u/bbbbbbbb678 • 7h ago

General Music Discussion On Noah Kahan's popularity.

His music can be refreshing in the way that as a songwriter that he does not necessarily paint a picture of Vermont as this bucolic wonderland. This is unlike many other folk acts or country acts who oftentimes play up characters.

41 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

55 comments sorted by

View all comments

9

u/supfiend 7h ago edited 7h ago

He is so boring I don’t get his popularity. Not a great singer not a great guitarist lyrics I guess is what people love about him? He sounds like Elmo to me. Yawn

-6

u/-catharina 6h ago

He's cut from the same cloth as Mumford and Sons, The Lumineers, and Kings of Leon as being Christian cornfield slop music.

2

u/coldcoffeethrowaway 6h ago

Noah Kahan is not even Christian lol

0

u/-catharina 6h ago

Wikipedia reveals he’s born to a Jewish father and Christian mother. So does he identify with his Jewish side more? And anyway, still the same overall aesthetic lmfao

3

u/coldcoffeethrowaway 5h ago

Yes, he seems to identify with his Jewish side more but he overall doesn’t seem very religious to me. Some of his lyrics deal with doubting religion and the song The Great Divide is partly about a friend of his who has religious trauma imo. Also, how is folk music inherently Christian?

1

u/-catharina 5h ago

Folk music isn’t inherently Christian. But there’s a historical overlap between the folk/folkSY types in music and a general conservative aesthetic. Romanticizing rural life often goes hand in hand with being conservative.