subtle change oh the harmonies just a blown away in every way
it's [ __ ] beautiful I'm soing you're the greatest thing we've ever lost God I've cried
so much it's just wonderful hello welcome to this video my name is Dan AKA Lucent I'm
a singer songwriter music producer and a podcaster as of this week I don't know
when this video is going to be going out on YouTube and today I'm going to be reacting
to Noah Kahan's stick season forever let's go cool okay so just to clarify today I will be
reacting to all the bonus tracks so that's like eight tracks including the brand new one
I will also be reacting to all of the Duets so all of that back half of the album I've already
reacted to the base six stick season album so if you haven't yet seen my reaction I will leave
a link for you and then come back and watch this one afterwards so Noah literally like I hadn't
heard anything oh I'd heard a couple of songs on patreon but other than that I hadn't heard
anything from this guy and
he seems to be taking over the world at the moment I absolutely adore
stick season I have had it on repeat if you've been seeing my little like Community posts on
that I put on YouTube he was nine of my top 10 Place songs in January and he's probably going
to be very high up in February as well how much I've been listening to like I feel like it's
the kind of album that like I just enjoy more and more and more the more I get to know the
songs but obviously I've been holding off on the Duets
and the bonus tracks because I wanted
to react them for you um but yeah you like you've said that there are some amazing ones so yeah I'm
totally I'm really excited something that people have really been getting into on the channel is
leaving their top fives I love going through all your top fives it's great it's my like Monday
morning with a coffee activity um but yes for this one rather than just the bonus track tracks
I want you to list your top five from the entire stick season epic wh
ether that's duet whether
that's the bass album whether that's the bonus songs I want to see your top fives for all the
content that's come out so far a few little bits if you new to the channel then make sure to
subscribe if you are not new to the channel and you want to support me further and watch
this video with no edits in any of the songs or anything then you can do so over on patreon
I'll leave the link for you in the description and if you want even more content from me I
am launch
ing a podcast potentially the first episode might already be it depends on the
scheduling it's called criminally underrated I get a different guest on every single week and
we discuss the most underrated songs from your favorite artists I've got two YouTubers fellow
reactors on the podcast so you have to let me know who you think is featuring um in the comments
right let's jump into it so stick season forever so the first one we're going to do we're going
to start with the bonus tracks and
then do the Duets after that um so so the first one is your
needs my needs let's go gorgeous guitar oh lovely guitar wow trace thees of your dreams pain that I am God tenderness in this be wow you were a work of art the hardest
part like this is not what I was expecting St oh the cords are just like oh so
liltingly beautiful she go I love all the different places it's going as well like drunk [ __ ] hell this is so good oh my God try and Flow she oh my God [ __ ] hell oh my God the power in t
hat
the Dynamics the oh my [ __ ] god oh my god at every single point I was like not ready for
like what was going to come next that was just insane like it just felt like it really lows
you into a full sense of security and then just like at different points just completely
plays with you and just pulls you along this like heart-wrenching like kind of achly romantic
thing where it's like so tender but then so huge of ponents and then like right back down to
like nothing again it's just li
ke it's [ __ ] roller coaster it's just amazing oh my God it's
that like combination for me of like the really soft tender moments like the way he's playing
the acoustic guitar and then taking it to a place that's like so Jagged and raw and like so
clearly so passionately like upsetting within him do you know what I mean like you can hear
the emotion all over his voice it's like the combination of those two things that is just
so astonishing because it's like it takes you in like it lulls y
ou into a full sense security
with the kind of quiet intimate moment and then just smashes you around the face with the true
kind of power of His emotion oh my God that I had so many comments on the last video saying
I was going to like this one and call your mom as well and it's [ __ ] amazing oh I thought
the bass album was good and it's just like like he just is taking it to a new place it's
like oh well who was I who was I to watch you wilt oh my God you ain't got to tell me what it
me
ans trace the outline of your dreams you'll always be a flower in my skin and the pain
that I in it's all the same the losing touch the waiting game oh my God that lyricism jeez
like this it's like this idea the reference to the flower it's almost like a maybe has a
flower a tattoo and it reminds him of somebody like who was I to watch you will who was I to
like sit around and like wait for like this relationship to die slowly you know across that
county line I promise to be there this time
all right you're a work of art that's the hardest
part howling like dogs in the light of the Moon holding our breath after 132 you asked me
why I wasn't saying a word I'm naming the Stars I was a work of art that's the hardest
part to spiral out to try and Float to see a friend to see a ghost bit a brand brained always
drunk R th your life your dreams your mind your needs and my needs your needs and my needs I
spiral out try and float you see a friend see a ghost That's like [ __ ] hell th
at's like I'm
going to guess that this is a friend that he's like been quite close to and is's seeing them
kind of go like Spiral down the drain in terms of their mental mental health in terms of their
addiction and like rather than being there for them he's had to kind of leave and he's like so
maybe this is like after you know all this kind of like do I leave my hometown can I leave my
hometown can I truly ever leave my hometown behind here he's like I couldn't sit around
and watch you f
ade away as much as I try to detach myself from you like I can't really you
know because it's so sad seeing you kind of fall into this God it really struck me because
like like I have friend when I was a teenager and we were really close and we fell out it was
like a big drama and it was like really hurtful like what went down but she's like had loads
of struggles with mental health with eating disorders and stuff and like and I always felt
kind of you know a bit of guilt that like I couldn
't be there for her and it just really
struck me there like how these friends from your hometown like your relationships change and
you can't necessarily control that because your lives change you know but it still doesn't
stop you from feeling it you know God [ __ ] incredible just phenomenal what am I supposed to
do with that oh my God okay next song this is Dar drunk okay okay we're going to do
a bit more of a country Vibe here this [ __ ] guy the when I long oh drunk alone I just can't
cope even within the kind of like
upbeat moments he manages to have so much like Pathos and like just like
emotional kind of depth you know like and his voice his voice and his
Melody is just gorgeous and so surprising [ __ ] great so good oh my god oh love it burnouts and she'll call me back
son are you a danger to yourself yeah yeah right oh God it's just like just that
he pinpoints that feeling doesn't he like [ __ ] fabulous like just to kind of have
that feeling of like you're commitm
ent to the people that you love and you care about when
you're that age those people that you grew up with you know and like he's saying like I would
you know I would die for you but also like bet it's oh my God that just oh my God it's just so
much about it I just love he like pinpoints that character that person who is we all have them
in our Lives who kind of get drunk and get into a fight over somebody else but like rather than
just like that being the kind of veneer of it he reveals un
derneath like what that person truly
is going through and it gives you so much kind of empathy for the for those for those people who
we all know you know for the shame of being young and lonely and drunk you like that's the kind
of that's the feeling of the shame the internal shame internal sadness and loneliness you know
that's kind of what's pushing them to that place you know and it's like yeah oh my God it's just
wonderful like he manages to do something that could like seem froy an up
beat many people would
do an upbeat song like your country with the and the fiddles and everything it could be very
Prestige it could be very shallow it's not at all it's got so much depth to it and it just
completely sells it you know like it's fabulous it's absolutely incredible I'm the first person
to criticize country if you've seen many of my videos you know this but this is the way he has
a certain Nostalgia you know and he brings that with the kind of country style music it brings th
e
Nostalgia and that is what the music is all about it's about this kind of link to your hometown
you know taking your emotion there to those people that you knew when you were there so having
country as part of that sound is really important I think and remembering I promised to forget you
now and it's it's raining and I'm calling drunk my medicine is drowning your perspective out
so I ain't taking any fault proud of all the punches that I've thrown in the name of someone I
no longer know
for the shame of being young drunk and alone traffic lights and the transmitter
radio I gave your name as my emergency phone call honey it rang and rang even the cops thought
you were wrong for hanging up I'll die drunk I'll die a drunk I'll die for you [ __ ] it's like
that kind of like drunken thought in that moment you're like I would die for you obviously it's
like an ex somebody who he used to love who he used to be with going through a thing where he
gets arrested for like starting a
f fight while he's drunk and she's the emergency contact and she
hangs up on him she's like no oh my God there's so much in that story it's just like so oh my God I'm
tethering the parts of you me you'd recognize from Charming to alarming in seconds I'll be bedridden
beg you sir just let me call I'll give you my blood alcohol I'll rot with all the burnouts in
the cell I change my faith I'll praise the flag let's wait I swear she'll call me back I love the
little reference there as well to
to the other song I just love the story in it it links to this
Hometown feeling it links to the old relationship that he's now no longer part of but can't quite
let go of it's just everything about that I just adore oh my God I can't believe that I've spent
the whole video crying so far okay next song this is poor Riv ooh hello there's so much like that
kind of dark raspy Feeling Just instantly creates atmosphere but it just ain't
that simple we'll drink to New Year's then they leave me to
clean up wow yeah yeah I just adore his Melody like
yeah wow oh for the road Cruise out until it ends that I'm not ready
to let go one day I love the way that this is building up it's just like
throwing in extra little violins and stuff disaar here wow around here gorgeous but the
patch of crash We buried the dog oh yeah the died the dead dog
oh my God I could leave I would have so he's moved on but he still can't move
on you know yeah wow got the atmosphere in this song The Darkness withi
n it like all those
little twilly bits like oh so like beautifully intelligently put together that song like it just
he just is so surprising to me me the way that he uses his Melodies to really surprise you moment
to moment but also the structure of the song like that one really didn't follow a typical structure
like it really kind of just flowed you know the Dynamics of the song the atmosphere and the way
it slowly built up and had lots of little details it was just so expertly put togeth
er it feels
like these Deluxe Tracks so far have been like such a step up it's almost like the bass album
although I mean absolutely brilliant beautiful and stunning between that and doing the Deluxe
Tracks it feels like he's really developed his skill and his Artistry to like the next level it's
really really beautiful also I'm loving this idea that like as much as he feels like he needs to get
away as much as he feels like he needs to change and it seems like there's lots of moments where
he feels like he maybe does maybe physically move away but there's always this like return to like
can I ever truly get away from the stick season can I ever truly get away from my hometown even if
I move halfway across the world my heart my mind my thoughts my family my friends they're still
going to be there and so maybe there's a sense of like he's going to need to find like some way
to like deal with that you know county line I'm coming down mailboxes until my house it seems like
mayb
e he's moved like a town away potentially but he's still coming back yes the boys are drunk
the sun is high the license plates Live Free or Die but it ain't just that simple it never was
we drink till New Year's then they'll leave me to clean up so there's a sense of like no algia like
he's going back through his old neighborhood and kind of looking back and seeing all the kind
of beauty that was there but he has to remind himself everything was actually like we need to
remind himself the b
ad stuff too you know one day I'm going to Kay Clear ride like Paul River going
to guess it's a cowboy or something and when they ask me who I am I'll say I'm not from around here
I'll leave before the road crews out before those joggers looking way too proud so in the middle
of the night in the early morning and I'll turn up music and I'll forget until it ends that I'm
not ready to let go yet so he's still kind of like got one foot in one foot out and he's saying
in the there will come a t
ime when I can actually just cut loose I'm in my car and so now back to
now I see the yard the patch of grass where the where we buried the dog and the world makes sense
behind a chain link fence if I could leave I would have already left he's still got this one foot
out and I think he reveals at this moment that he's not there yet maybe in the future he'll find
a time where he can truly Cut Loose ride off but at this point he's still connected you know he
still can't take himself emotional
ly away from this place you know ah it's just so amazing like
I love the whole concept of it like how the main album seems to be like he's still within that
moment he's still living in that difficult time you know the period of depression and going to see
the therapist and all this kind of stuff and now in these songs after the fact he's looking back
but still not quite free of it it's just like so well thought out it's so good okay let's
go on to the next one this is no complaints okay gor
geous oh gorgeous thought I had something
and that's the same as having something thought I was RA better tried to fake better tried to
blame where the weight of the world ain't so bad I love the kind of like
slug kind of lilting kind of dragging your feet feeling of the tempo of this song Wonderful all these songs are just
so beautifully put together like now pist es what an interesting Melody as well
like he really is so creative with the way he uses his voice and like uses very
very dif
ferent melodical structures in every song You Know I saw the end and look
just like the middle and forgot how to cry compl who am I to complain oh I love those strings there's something
about the combination of like acoustic guitar and strings that just really just gets me it look
just like middle fill the hole in my head with prescription medication and who am I to complain
wow I forgot how to cry who am I to complain Christ I've got no compl complaints because
I don't feel anything mad [
__ ] beautiful I just adore like how slow that was and how it felt
like like it really felt like the sound of it was somebody dragging their feet walking along like
a zombie you know like he said he fills his head with prescription medication and maybe like it's
numbing the anxiety but maybe numbing his other emotions and so he kind of feels like he's just
dragging his feet that is the sound of that song is that somebody's dragging their feet through
life and not really connecting and it's
like I've got no complaints you know but I'm not actually
truly feeling anything and this song sounds like it the way that the drums are slightly behind
the beat slow tempo the way the strings kind of go like this there's moments of like and then
it kind of goes back to it you know it's like somebody who's trying to break free of it but
isn't you know and it's just so expert it's so so well done you're right about these bonus songs
like completely right about these bonus songs like I'm obse
ssed I thought I had something that's the
same as wait I thought I had something and that's the same as having something oh I see I get mad at
nothing blame my dad for something I thought I was raised better tried to fake better tried to blame
weather and Escape better it's kind of almost like a kind of slightly more like rap Cadence in a way
not quite any not quite over like towards that stylistically but like the kind of flow of it you
know I saw the end it looks just like the middle got
a paper and pen and a page with no space
I filled the hole in my head with prescription medication and forgot how to cry who am I to
complain yeah the Pain's different it still exists just escapes different and evades vision
makes the rain different makes the news boring and my rage distant yes I'm Young and Living dreams in
love with being noticed and afraid of being seen wow in love with being noticed and afraid of being
seen it's like I want you to notice me I want you to care about me b
ut I don't want you to actually
get too close to me [ __ ] forgot to cry who am I to complain [ __ ] hell it's just like so expertly
written like there's just so many levels to that it just works so beautifully because it's like he
tells the story of how he was kind of emotionally up and down was having fights with people like
couldn't hold back and so so went somewhere to try and get help and it seems like it is helping
but the other side of it is that if he's going to continue to rely on
the medication then he's
going to continue to live like this kind of zombie like existence and actually the pain is
still there he's not actually dealing with it it's like obviously like medication can help so
many people and I do believe in like in anxiety medication and stuff to help people get back
to who they used to be you know but there is a feeling that if you become kind of stuck on it
if you continue using it you're not actually kind of solving the issue it's almost like a like a
like a kind of shortterm Band-Aid plaster as we'd say um to the solution and I think that's kind of
what he's saying towards the end is that like the pain is still there it's just distant it just
comes out differently and now everything just feels different and I don't feel normal anymore
it's like what's worse you know yeah it's so so beautifully done and that kind of central kind
of thing I've got no complaints but there's such hidden depth within just that phrase you know
to have no comp
laints is fine but also you're not living life I can't say anything wrong about
it because there's nothing wrong about it but but there's a but you know H so so good okay let's
go to the next one this is call your mom oh then again them it out and let it in don't
let this Darkness this feto is so gorgeous oh that's such a beautiful
little sentiment you know I've been ex you are oh okay so it's like sympathy like
a empathy for somebody I've been where you are that's gorgeous what gorgeous
s
entiment and to be at a place now within his emotional Journey where
he can kind of say I've been where you've been I will call your mom to
check in on you to check that you're okay you have never tried yeah w w so it's a song to somebody who's
like really on the edge [ __ ] I would drive all night and I'll call your mom to
check that you're all right you know be that's oh yeah yeah yeah find a reason oh my God like do anything like you need
to find something I don't want to keep driving ar
ound thinking in the back of my
head are you still going to be there you know yeah yeah gorgeous oh my God where you are yeah wow I love the powerful version of that
final chorus it's really really great oh wow go [ __ ] hell that he that's wow heavy [ __ ] right
like I just love the kind of like having followed the progression of the whole album and like seen
where he's been you know like I've followed his emotional journey through these like heavy moments
you know like during growing side
ways and during like the view between Villages and like these
moments like when he's getting angry and the death of the dog and he can't forget all these things
and then you know his ability like and the fact he's gone to therapy the fact that he's like on
anti- anxiety stuff and it's like you know that he's been through it through like getting to know
him through this album and so to kind of hear him like get to a point where like he can see somebody
else who is in that position I don't th
ink he necessarily realizes it in this moment but he has
come so far because he can say I will like drive all night to be there for you and that's the kind
of point of healing cuz when you're in the depth of depression it's a very selfish place you know
you can't it's it's like you can't see anybody else like you're completely absorbed by it and he
knows that and he has empathy and he has sympathy and the fact that he is driving all night and
calling this person's mom to see if they're all
right shows that he's no longer in that place you
know he doesn't state it outright but you get that feeling that he's no longer in that kind of like
all-encompassing depression you know whereas like earlier when you like listen to orange juice he
totally is in that place because in orange juice he has somebody coming over to his house and he
doesn't even know that they've given up alcohol or anything he's like so totally self-absorbed
still in that moment that like he's not even thinking a
bout them at the party you know we've
got orang for the kids you know so it's beautiful to hear his progression you know oh God it's just
wonderful that's just oh God this is so this is why I love music okay are you're spiraling again
the moment right before it ends don't you cancel any plans cuz I won't let you get the chance to
never make them [ __ ] stayed on the line with you the entire night till you let it out and let it in
yeah to be able to be there for this person don't let the dar
kness fool you all the lights turned
off can be turned on so you can make it back you can come back I'll drive all night I'll call your
mom waiting room no place to stand his greatest fears and ringing hands and the loudest silence
if you could see yourself like this if you could see yourself like this You' have never tried it
oh my God it's got to be like my God so someone's obviously like harmed themsel in a way and is now
they're in the hospital like he's with the parents potentially I g
uess yeah medicate meditate sway
yourself to Jesus throw a punch fall in love give yourself a reason I don't want to drive another
mile wondering if you're breathing so w you stay W you stay with me he's just like you need to
find something I don't care whether it's like you know religion or yoga or you know like anything
anything you just need to give yourself a reason to live you need to find a reason to live it's
just a hobby you know it's like something you need to find that and use tha
t to get better so there's
a knowledge here there's a knowledge that he knows that like what needs to be done in order to get
better to take yourself back from the depths of depression you know and it's so wonderful to see
that progression oh God it's just so good just wonderful okay okay next one this is
you're going to go far I saw your as a deadine wow yeah correcting all the grammar
on a spray pain and I even gave up D after sound every single time the melody sounds
beautiful it does a
nother thing makes me go greatest thing we' lost the birds
are still sing so that's the parents I think oh my God somebody who's
moving away and it's like we'll still be here you know you're
the greatest thing we've ever lost yeah yeah shut you down but it's
all we've had pack up your car for a hand in your heart say the greatest thing we've L I just love saying Life Will Go
On and we'll support you from the sidelights it's just it's like
the thing he's always needed to hear you know yeah
oh what a perfect
perfect song to have at this point you know yeah well those drum sound great do they fabulous oh my God just obsessed like just
what a perfect song to have at this point like literally just everything that I was saying
about like getting to know him and getting to like understand this this person who's been
through so much and like living like trying to escape his hometown this like depression the
kind of small town thing and like wanting to get out never quite being able
to make it like having
one foot in one foot out does he turn around like there were moments where like it seemed like
he made it out but then he ended up back there you know getting to this point where he can he
realizes that maybe he's out of this depression and he can actually do something you know he can
actually take it somewhere now and then here we go we've got the people like saying goodbye you know
and like the family and the friends saying you're got to go far we support you we are
there like
you the greatest thing we've ever lost it's just really G there's just so much in that you know
like oh it's just wonderful yeah it's like well we we're cheering you on you know I've cried so
much oh my God okay the only time I got to praying for a red light was when I saw your destination
as a deadline this is normal conversation babe it's all fine making quiet calculations where
the fault lies the college kids are getting so young aren't they growing up moving on they're
corr
ecting all the grammar on on a spray paint takes a strong hand the sound mind it makes me
smile to know when things get hard oh you'll be far you'll be far from here I wonder whether
it's him his perspective or like his father or something like I don't know or like maybe he is
like saying it to somebody else I don't know the perspective I'm not sure but like the sentiment
is there you know getting older moving on it's that 30s thing where you start realizing like
oh yeah I'm going to you kn
ow settle a little bit you know chill out a little bit so pack up
your car put a hand on your heart say whatever you feel be wherever you are we ain't angry at
you love you're the greatest thing we've lost I can't say that life without cry um the birds
will still sing your folks will still fight the birds will still creep the leaves will still die
wait angry at you love we'll be waiting for you love and we'll all be here forever weever du a
Revival we spent so long G by that's the thing abo
ut survival who the hell likes Living Just
To Die it won't be your own valtion if you step for outside this town so it seems to be like it's
somebody like almost like giving him permission to leave and like after everything it's just so it's
just so powerful isn't it like okay next one this is the view between Villages extended which
I'm quite excited about cuz I'm wondering if like this version of this song is like maybe
the version where he does turn around we'll see funny listening to th
is song
now cuz I know it so well you know the begins and I'm split
in the road down the middle just love it seems so simple I am not
scared of death I've got dreams again got I love this song so sick I feel so far from it I'm angry again and everything still okay
so where are we going to go next next if this just a slow outro for the whole thing well I for
me personally big enough for anything wow girl wonder who this is maybe the well I guess it's
small community out for each other back
at the town oh my God God that's everything I needed from that song that's everything I needed from
that it's [ __ ] beautiful I'm soing oh my God I remember thinking that the
The View between Villages like was kind of short you know and it like it gets to
somewhere and then it goes down again and it's gone you know but like that was like
just exactly what it needed it just went to another level like the little clips of people
talking about the hometown and like how you know they relate to
their Hometown like
the closeness like looking back with the good view of it you know it's like maybe
when he grows older he'll be able to look back with like Nostalgia with happiness you
know the things that we they did have you know yeah oh my God and maybe that last like
you know turn around again maybe it said like an admittance that it doesn't matter where he
goes doesn't matter where he lives he's still will return he's still has that kind of connection
you know so it's like that kin
d of development you know it's like it doesn't matter how far I am I
will still be here but not I will still be here I'm stuck here I will still be here because this
is where I grew up this is everything you know this made me you know it's just [ __ ] incredibly
poignant and just beautiful and like just blown away in every way I just think it's so wonderful
it's oh my God God I just yeah I can't even cope I want to see what the last lyrics were so this
is the clip that it was like the the i
nterviews so for me personally I found a town big enough
for anything that I want I mean I'm not a City Girl by any means straford is still has a lot of
meaning to me because I grew up there it's a small community of people who really look out for each
other and that's the same way with anybody that needs anything this community is there to help and
so like Noah can violently look at this place for what it is like the kind of small town community
like closeness God it really does like refle
ct so much of like how I feel about my hometown
you know and how as far as I as long as far as I travel as as like you know like as far as I
move away like my family is still there my friends are still there and they still care so much the
things I lost here the people I knew they got me surrounded for a mile or two left at the graveyard
I'm driving past ghosts that arms are extended my my eyes start to close the cars in revers on
gripping the Wilder on back between Villages and everything'
s still and that for me like is like
a moment of like peace you know maybe he will always be between Villages because his home might
be somewhere else but everything is still and it's okay you know okay I'm so excited to hear this
like final brand new song came out today this is forever let's C for no reason cry down the curve
of this Earth cry down the curve of this Earth H us anywhere this is really like looking back
isn't it you know this is properly The Nostalgia moment where w't be bui
ld a in the heat July
I tell her so I'm broke my head broke let her go oh my God looking at the
future we're looking at the future what a perfect perfect like Final Extra song to be looking at the future to
be Imagining the future you know I'm broke but rich in my broke but I'll be rich in my head feeling that yeah
forever love the mixed tempo of this I love that I don't know why just phenomenal like what a beautiful
progression this whole thing the whole experience starting off the norther
n attitude
this like please excuse me for where I grew up like I'm just a small town boy like I don't know
any better and to go through like the Journey of like struggling with the stick season you know
which represents like the dead trees the winter of his hometown up in the north where it's Barren
Wasteland that kind of feeling you know seeing like other people moving on and him being left
behind like going to therapy like still trying to get over somebody who is kind of left him
behind
everybody's left him behind he feels so totally stuck towards the end of the album he's
starting to make moves he's starting to be able to move past it he's taking one foot out he does
kind of turn back but he's getting there you know and then with these bonus tracks to be able to
take one step away and start looking at stuff from a different perspective the relationships
with friends like that he's you know now left behind his relationship with his ex who he's still
kind of has as the is t
he drunk you know number to call the attitude the morning to move forward
one day I'll be able to get there but I've still thinking about it I still can't quite get past
like what we had you know what I had whilst I was here actually being in a place where he can
look at somebody else struggling and give them help you know the strength in that and then to
understand that people are going to like support him to send him on his way he's going to go far
he's going to have a great time and fina
lly he can look back at his hometown with reverence and
like look at the great stuff that it has you know the sense of community and even even though it
doesn't matter how far he'll be he'll still will have come from that small town he's proud of that
you know like the progression there to get past that and then to look towards the future it's
just perfect isn't it just absolutely perfect I'm just so moved by the whole thing I just think
it's so good you were so right about these bonus trac
ks they're so good let's drive for no reason
let's see where the these Wheels land let's grind down the curve of this earth when we kissed in the
car in the school parking lot I used to wish wish I meant anything to anywhere to anyone so he's
like looking back at this like Teenage romance this like you know who he was back then you
know when forever was a sentence sentenced to death when you were running terar as a drop of
sweat and the edges of your soul I haven't seen yet now I'm glad I g
et to see forever where you
end so this is the he's actually looking back at this relationship that he had and being able
to like say I'm glad that we didn't actually get married be like te like teens getting married
because we were two different people she was the the running tear and he was the drop of sweat
that were to to so totally different people and now he's glad he gets to see forever when you
know without this person he gets to experience a different life he's actually glad that t
hey
didn't stay together despite all of the [ __ ] that that he's been through with her you know
I won't be alone for the rest of my life I'll build a boat for when the river gets high and I'll
meet a girl in The Heat Of July and I'll tell her so she knows that I broke a bone that never
healed in my hand so when I hold her close I might loosen my grip but I won't never let her go
this yeah oh my god oh [ __ ] so she he's singing to the ex right saying it's okay I might not
have anybody yet
but I'm in a place where I can foresee that now I'm glad I get forever to see
where you end to see where you end so actually now he gets to see this person Thrive and go
and do their thing and have a beautiful life and he gets to experience that as a friend like
it's just such a maturity like I just the whole whole progression it just is so astonishing to me
to have like this one last bonus song that really is just like is seals the deal it completely
feels like it should have been there t
he whole time type thing you know it's so wonderful gosh
okay I'm going to take a little lunch break but stick around and I will be reacting to all the
Duets including the Hosier one which I'm very excited about right okay here we go had my lunch
break got a coffee so this is going to be a little bit of a little bit more of a speed round cuz
obviously we have just heard some of these and I've dug into the lyrics and stuff in the previous
reaction so cool let's do it this D drunk with poston
e I'm just obsessed I can understand why this one's been trending a lot like a lot lot
of people been playing this one okay cool turning a slow dance into a MH about last time was in the back of aop
in love to back up been loing my car any nice I love the way his Melody kind
of almost like interjects itself really cool I'm not crazy about this like straight
double layered chorus something about the mix of it that's like sending me off a little
bit I pr FL way I where she'll call me back I d
on't think I'm going to listen to
this one over the original I enjoyed Poston verse but I think I just prefer
Noah's like singular voice over this you know I do think it's very clever how he's done
this though cuz it's like put an album out then do a deluxe version later on then do all these Duets
as like a promotional thing it's like a really good way of like seeing that your album's getting
some traction and pushing it home yeah great yeah I like I'm not crazy about the the guest verse
l
ike as much I think it was good I I I liked the performance of it and everything it just doesn't
gel like I just feel like like the solar version is fine you know what I mean but I do really
appreciate yeah what he's been doing like he could obviously see he had something and this
has been like keep pushing it pushing it pushing it pushing it and now we've got this forever
version and it feels like a kind of Victory lap you know okay next one this is call your mom
but with Lizzy macalpine o
h you sp but then again PL CU it's full settled and this is so beautiful
it's such a comforting energy isn't it it's like you're kind of whispering to this person
you know to keep them safe to keep them calm okay so she's just doing a straight
version of this verse her voice sounds nice here though never tried it entire
night had I really like her performance of this like it's really light and soft but
she sounds so secure in her notes you know it's not like wavering it feels quite strong
even though it's quite subtle which I think is the idea of the song you know this idea
that you can be strong for somebody else but there's an intimacy you know vulnerability
I've been exactly Way You Are I call I like how they singing In Harmony here as well
like I feel like this adds to the original version more than the postone feature you know wondering if you're breathing meditate
save your soul for Jesus don't want to drive you stay with me drive drive yeah I think in the previous one
it
felt like poston's verse was just stuck in and then he just sang in unison over the chorus
whereas this one is them singing In Harmony on the chorus it just feels a little bit more
well gelled and her voice really suits the style of the song as well yeah I feel like that
one's a bit more successful than the first one I really enjoyed Lizzy's verse I mean she did
just perform the verse that was already written but I really think that in her performance
of it she understood how to perform
it in a way that suggested that she was strong but the
person that she's speaking to is vulnerable so she uses a quiet voice you know I think that was
really nicely pitched really nicely and I really like the way they sing in harmony because
it just I know they both feel like they're singing from a place of like protectiveness you
know for this other person and I just think yeah it's really nicely done okay let's go on to
she calls me back with Casey musle Graves oh there was Heaven in you
r eyes she calls me back
she calls me back this one's been on repeat for me I've just really love attension in this
verse it's so clever hanging answer every sentence still 229 3167 everything's
all right when she calls me back she calls me back R out of tears to cry
nice okay so she's written her own verse okay so she's singing
the other perspective yeah great I love that she's like filling in the
story from the other from the person you know so clever you still die classic country vibe
in this verse L for a long time everything's all right yeah this this duet really adds
something to the song I love this idea of a duet that shows two different sides of story it
reminds me of Somebody That I Used to Know by Goo and Kimbra where it's like an obsessive guy and
then a girl being like why are you obsessed with me have saved or I was too afraid of living life
in your footsteps living life in your footsteps I love the song calls me so sick I mean I love
that song that one's real
ly been like a repeat play for me cuz it's just so satisfying to listen
to and so satisfying to sing along cuz it's like right within my range like sits nicely within
my range um yeah love it really love how Casey adds an extra verse to that where it's like the
opposite perspective because obviously the song is like a guy obsessing over a girl being like
everything's okay when she calls me back he's hanging on for that that moment when she calls him
back and she's kind of saying I don't kno
w why I am still calling you back like this character
still has her foot in the past in a way as well she's kind of stringing him along and she's not
sure why I'm running out of tears to cry they're gone before they hit my cheeks maybe it's the
air out here maybe something's changing me so she's moving on she is changing if you think that
you could wake me up don't you know how well I sleep you love me and I don't know why I only call
you once a week she knows what's the situation is and ye
t she still kind of got one foot out of the
door but I love this idea that there's a version that exists that is like the original and then
this version exists that's like her revealing what the other character in the song is actually
thinking and feeling really clever really I mean of course it's Casey M Graves she knows what she's
doing yeah cool okay amazing now we have Northern attitude with hosia which I know I've got hosia
on the wall you know I know you all got me into hosia now I'm
obsessed and I'm really excited to
hear this I've been holding on on hearing this pretty much since it came out in like November
cuz I saw it and was like oh and then I was like no this might be a reaction so I've saved it
so yes I'm excited to see what josia can bring to this song apparently it's illegal to listen to
the original version so okay cool let's go and be prepared for me singing something along to this
one too breathing in breathing out I'm I'm so [ __ ] to lyrics it doesn't mat
ter how many times
I listen to a song two three 4 oh I was out of time I love this song If I get too
close forgive my Norther attitud oh I was raised down in the cold it's such
a good song I mean I just I love H okay wait oh yeah build a life you lose your it just sounds so good on it it just
suits him so much doesn't it like I mean you got to have a
big hoser note on that haven't you harmonies oh so nice oh rain
down in the cold till the summer time oh the harmonies I love it I love it
I
love it oh God it just sounds so [ __ ] perfect and this suits hosia like the idea
of this song Oh God this version is so good you God it's so nice to hear both their voices
in harmony isn't that gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous that's that's
what I want from a feature harmonies oh fabulous oh my God you're totally right I'm not going
to listen to the original now that's so good oh God just the just the harmonies in that cor is
the bits where hosia does his vo
calizing over the top the thing is that like it adds like an extra
Dynamic to the song because like obviously the original you have the quiet bit you have the big
bit you have the second verse you have a big bit and then you have the end this version is like
quiet bit big bit and then you have a different flavor and then you have an even bigger section
than what we had in the previous song because you've got both their voices working together with
a beautiful harmonies and full like beautif
ully like mixed vocals like that just give it so much
texture it's just like oh beautiful and then they come together in that little bit at quiet bit
at the end where they sing together beautiful love it perfect attitude I was raised on it's
just so nice to S like his songs are so nice to S especially for me because like I feel like
I have a similar range to noan anyway the thing is with hoser on this song right is that like a
lot of hosier's songs and story Lines within his songs kind of r
elate to his culture his home
his like slightly because of like the quirks of like his culture in his hometown how they kind
of translate into the into the world you know it fits so beautifully to have Hosier on this song
because that's what Noah is singing about he's singing about like forgive attitude my small town
attitude like I was raised on little light I was raised in the middle of nowhere I think that there
there's a real kind of kinship between both hos and Noah in that way and obv
iously like hosa's
voice just is just so beautiful but like raspy it adds just an extra layer of of of emotion
to the feeling of the song of the feeling of like feeling out of step out like a little bit
stuck you know he kind of adds weight to it you know love it listening to that forever next song
Everywhere everything with Gracie Abrams let's go oh D it we in a hor movie
intertwined in a c dir back seat everywhere everything till our
fingers decompose actually this would have been a real
ly good one to have hoser on
as well you know for the decomposition aspect I love the kind of subtle move
into this the seventh chord again here it's really really nice I don't
really know Gracie o to be honest oh hello okay this is nice her voice is nice I
like the Harmony in it as well I'm not sure cuz obviously Noah belts that there forget to
read it's very very soft I'm not sure necessarily works it feels a little bit copin past it in
it worked with um in the call your mom song with de
sie macalpine because the whole thing
was soft but this has so much power to it this song yeah and not having nowhere here is
a mistake I think she doesn't have the power I mean it really shows shows
the strength of this album and Noah songwriting that like there are so many
songs on here that you could do as Duets and the artist would be happy to be on
that song do you know what I mean like to have like eight different songs from an
album that are strong enough to hold like a duet on some
albums if if you if you were the
eighth person getting a duet and you got like some like bsid you know what I mean then
You' be a bit miffed but here is not the case she sounds nice here yours it's quite a nice
voice it's just very soft and I don't think really suits the the power of that midsection of the song
cuz like if you think about like the second verse he's just gone up to that really powerful place
and then for the energy to drop so much and then the energy of the second chorus to
not match
the energy of the first chorus just feels like a misstep doesn't feel like it's like designed
that way and so therefore I think it sounds a little bit copy and pasted that one that's my
thought she's got a lovely voice though it just I think it really would have suited like come
over or still or Halloween or Strawberry Wine one of the really soft songs would have really
suited her not everything every everywhere because like that has so much power in it and she doesn't
maybe she
can but she didn't do that here you know okay so we got three songs left we've got homesick
with Sam Fender let's go got back in masochistic [ __ ] I love the kind of like Rocky we go oh yes Sam okay yeah his Vibe really sits a song nice final reason yeah he
really added that added to that fits the Dy Dynamic of the song nice
Edition yeah make myself I'm homesick yes yes yes yes yes Sam really adds a good
energy to this the only thing I really know about Sam Fender is that his fans will
we
ar the T-shirt of the beer that's from his hometown he did a gig up the road for me and
I couldn't get a bus anywhere it was really annoying sick yeah great Sam really added to that song his style
already suits the the song totally like that kind of slightly rockier Edge he has that kind of voice
he has that kind of style the vocal processing on his voice really fits into that classic plate
Reverb Rock style yeah really added to it and it felt like it felt like a natural part of that
song i
t didn't feel like tacked on in any way it felt like he'd always been there well grew up
in the Fallout from the riots in the '90s static cranes stand lifeless casting Shadows on the town
oh okay so this is like so he grew up in Newcastle and for context I'm assuming this is referring
to the closure of the mines and tside steel my my boyfriend comes from the same area and the
manufacturing and the and the mines and everything that were situated in that part of the country
got all shut down
by margarth Atcher and so I think that's what he's referring to I stare at
the hallowed ocean as if to pick a fight for the dreams my old man dreamt for me lay on the other
side oh [ __ ] yeah oh my God I would leave if only I could find a reason I mean because I grew
up in New England clever Newcastle obviously but also New England like the New England England used
to be a manufacturing country and now our biggest export is Insurance things changed that's very
very clever and very Savvy an
d I love this idea of him relating his homesick to the depression
of the '90s and how he grew up and how actually his dad's dream for him lay out his outside of
the of the town he's like there's nothing here for you you need to move away that is just really
really good isn't that really good so good I love that that's like he really added to that sick
amazing that and hosia have been the best ones like to totally but now we got Brandy car and I
love Brandy Cara and I just cried to this song
so here we go again oh that was so good though I'm
going to have to send that to my boyfriend because he's going to really appreciate that okay next one
is you're going to go far with Brandy car let's go only time I got to pray for in life this is good
to land or at least it was pain and I even gave up yes oh bry's voice you'll be far
you'll be far pack up your car put a head in your heart you're the greatest thing we I can't help it it's kind of lovely hearing
the female voice there as we
ll cuz it seems like a mom and a dad
saying goodbye to their child you know I text my boyfriend at the break and
he was like stay hydrated for a Revival spent so long just getting by but that's the
thing about God she sounds so good doesn't she you step out of this up your car I can't hear that without G me
every time gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous I love her little harmonies that
she's putting into this she's weaving so much Beauty into this song by adding her voice
to his it's not l
ike dumping it in she's really understanding the song and intertwining herself
into it you know oh oh my God Brandy her voice is just [ __ ] insane to me I love it so much
oh so good I really love how this duet thing isn't just you know cash grab or anything it
feels like they've put artistic thought into every single one well not every single one to
most of them you know the guests have come on and added not only elements of performance but
they've weaved their voice in with his they've br
ought a different element of the story they've
related their own story to his within the song and brought that to it it's like really just like
specifically like at the moment she calls me back Northern attitude homesick and you're going to
go far just beautiful versions that I'm going to be listening to instead of the original let's go
on to the last one this is Paul Riv with Gregory Allan isakov Ive never heard of this guy this is
the only person I haven't heard of in terms of the Duets u
m let's do it cting L I'm counting down
yeah the boys are drunk okay yeah Li country guy presumably it muddles there strange lovely harmonies from around here before those child
who looking way too proud until it ends that I'm not ready to let go yet want to cut it
clear love this big chorus vocal again this singer has really just brought themselves
into the song in a really Natural Way adds a bit of a bit of a country twang
but like it sits really nicely you know but I'm in my car and I se
e the
we bued the world I could leave I would have World chain yeah this guy really fit the mood of the S
and added like a kind of grally feel to it really nice yeah really nicely done I like that guy's
voice nice he really just added to the kind of the depth within the song feels like that could
have been the original again yeah these have been really successful more than they haven't been
to be honest like in terms of my playlist yeah paor Riv you're going to go far homesick Northern
att
itude and she calls me back we'll be replacing the originals I really just love what the artists
have brought to it they've brought their own side of the story as well as bringing their voice and
their artistic kind of nuance to the vocal side as well just overall just what an incredibly
stunning project I think it speaks to like especially with all these Duets I think Noah's
writing really speaks to the kind of universal nature of our relationship Our Generation and
our relationship to our
hometown you know it's something that I've thought about loads over the
last few years like having done a lot of traveling having them returned home during the pandemic and
then moved out again it's something that's really been going around in my head like my relationship
to home and the way that it's changed and I think Noah's songwriting is clearly just so Universal
the way that he can tap into that feeling tell these stories that not only from his perspective
but also kind of seem to be
referring to other people in his kind of friendship group you can
see yourself in him you can see yourself in his friends you can see your friends in his friends
and it just makes it this experience that just brings you along and clearly it does to everybody
because a he's finding loads of popularity and B all of these songwriters could also find their
own stories to relate like the Sam Fender one like amazing like for him to relate to his story
the other side of the world you know and sti
ll have that same feeling of that homesick you know
um and to bring that to the song it clearly is no Noah is connecting to people in a special way
and it is so exciting I just adore this entire project I just think it's absolutely wonderful
and um I have to say thank you to my boyfriend for telling me to react to it because other people
have got had a lot of views on their no videos and now discovered in I'm like yes it's so good say
thank you to my boyfriend in the comments thank you for
watching thank you for coming along this
journey with me it's been absolutely wonderful I can't wait to see what he's going to do now
like remember to leave your top five from the entire project that's every single bonus track
every single duet every single normal track I want to know what your top five is let me know
in the comments oh my favorite song I think I might have to give it to I'm going to give it to
your needs my needs that song just blew me away I just thought it was absolutely
incredible the
story of it I just really connected to so real and so surprising like every section of it like it
really kind of just took me along and just didn't let me go and was just the most moving thing if
you want to check out my reaction to a bunch of Bo Bia if you want to check out my reaction to
a bunch of hosier's alternative bonus songs then you can watch that video here if you want to check
out my reaction to tape mccrae's think later it is here me out yeah you are the one you
said in
me my new last on Shades and Chase the Sun
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