#call your mom - noah kahan & lizzy mcalpine is just. such a big song for them T^T

[coldshrugs]

i've been exactly where you are i'll drive, i'll drive all night

[fluffairy]

I may not know Noah Kahan but I am so fucking proud of him. he's approximately my age and from the same area of VT/NH where I grew up -- I worked in a coffee shop in his local university town, he mentions our specific "mini Target" in one of his songs.

it sounds corny af but when I was growing up in Vermont, it didn't feel like I could have a lot of big dreams. It didn't feel like big things ever happened to anyone. I went to a failing high school in a dying industrial town which was the butt of everyone's joke -- no one had gotten into an Ivy League university in a decade, the farthest most people went for college was Boston. I had big dreams, and I was scared of everything -- mostly, of them not coming true.

Last weekend I drove to the local coffee shop in my VT hometown (recently opened in a bid to revitalize the downtown area) and listened to his remix of "Call Your Mom" featuring Lizzy McAlpine and looked at the surging river next to the abandoned iron factory against the gray cloudy sky and just felt all of it -- the love, the hatred, the feeling that this is just home, forever, and there's nothing that can change that. Noah gets all of this so exactly right and I'm so, so impressed by him and his songwriting and his insight into this weird fucking place where I grew up and where I never wanted to live and which is still a huge part of who I am today and which I do love, in my own way.

And now here we have an Upper Valley boy who is going to be playing Madison Square FUCKING Garden and all because he went back to his roots and put out music he actually liked and told the whole fucking world about his small town in Vermont. and it just makes me :') not much more to say except :')

proud of u, Noah <3