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Noah Kahan is leaving the season of the sticks behind as he enters a new, retrospective era.
Kahan recently spoke with People about his new song "The Great Divide," which drops on Friday (January 30) and serves as the lead single from his upcoming album of the same name, which comes out in April. The Grammy-nominated artist, 29, explained how the the song came about after feeling a "gap growing" in his personal life following the overwhelming success from his 2022 album Stick Season.
"My life had changed so much and I felt this real gap growing," he said. "I started to think about divide in my life, whether that was the divide between me and this older version of me, or me and the people that I used to know growing up, or the people that are in my life that I'm still trying to keep a relationship with."
He channeled that feeling into writing "The Great Divide," expressing the thoughts he wished he could have shared when he was younger.
"This song in particular is really about two people who grew up together, but maybe didn't know each other as well as they thought," he said. "A lot of my life recently has been realizing the things I wish I could have said to people and the things I wish I could have done differently, and so this song is kind of just an expansion of that."
The Great Divide drops April 24.