Calling all Swifties who are also Noah Kahan fans, or who are Noah-curious! Today Sara is joined by her friend Stef (again) to dive into Noah’s newest album, “The Great Divide: The Last of the Bugs” while Laura is still on maternity leave. They reacted to the whole album for YouTube (linked below), and loved it so much they knew they had to come on here and break it down. Laura even shares her two cents in a few places via some voice memos, which is really fun. They begin by talking about how Noah’s songwriting is similar to Taylor’s before diving more deeply into the album with specific tracks, and then ending with favorite songs, lyrics and ratings, etc.
A couple notes: we goofed and didn’t realize that evermore was INDEED nominated for Album of the Year in 2022. Our bad! Also, we forgot to play Laura’s voice memo about her top 3 songs from the album, so her 3 favorites are: End of August, Orbiter and Willing and Able.
We hope you enjoy this one, and please let us know if you’d like us to do more of this kind of episode in the future.
Chapters
(00:00) Intro
(1:35) Taylor Updates
(11:37) Our backgrounds with Noah
(18:18) Noah’s similarities to Taylor
(34:22) Introducing “The Great Divide” - overall thoughts and themes
(50:46) End of August
(56:51) Doors
(1:03:56) American Cars
(1:09:21) Downfall
(1:14:23) Paid Time Off
(1:17:43) Staying Still
(1:20:23) Haircut
(1:22:56) Willing and Able
(1:27:14) Dashboard
(1:28:30) 23
(1:32:01) All Them Horses + A Few Of Your Own
(1:33:58) Orbiter
(1:39:21) Dan
(1:45:20) Top 3 Favorite Songs
(1:46:54) Skips
(1:51:07) Best Bridge
(1:59:58) Song for Taylor to be featured on
(2:07:18) Favorite Lyrics
(2:10:33) Rating the album
(2:16:05) Signing off / outro
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Links Referenced
NYT - 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters
National Recording Registry Inducts Sounds of Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, The Go-Go’s, Vince Gill, Weezer, Reba McEntire and More
Chats and Reacts girls react to “Stick Season”
Sara and Stef react to “The Great Divide: The Last of the Bugs”
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