Noah Kahan’s song “Stick Season,” from his 2022 album of the same name, is his biggest hit to date. It became popular after he posted it on TikTok and it went viral by the next day. Kahan wrote the song in about an hour and a half while thinking about November in his home state of Vermont, which he describes as an “in-between” time. The lyrically somber but sonically upbeat song is about transitions and feelings of being stuck or left behind.
Its online success helped propel the album Stick Season to number one on Billboard’s rock and alternative charts in 2023.