dashboard
casual noah kahan listener here but rly like his compositions. dashboard has been living on my tiktok feed for quite a while (ft mitch marner edits LOL iykyk) so i obviously knew how the first few lines of the chorus went but never watched the full edits/the song cuts off so i never heard the thing in its entirety
well earlier this week i finally started working my way through the new album but accidentally downloaded the censored version on apple music. if you haven't heard it it totally cuts off at the word 'asshole' and there's like 5 seconds of silence before the song continues. if you click to view the lyrics on apple music, it's transcribed as 'turns out that you're just a -'
me being me, i actually thought this was an intentional choice on noah kahan's behalf like the dash had symbolism and we're supposed to fill in the blanks about what the narrative 'you' is supposed to be and that's why the song is called DASHboard. i thought the pause was ~artistry~ even though it's a little jarring to me whenever it cuts off. i also even was thinking, this song will be hella awkward to sing live??
i've just discovered the real lyrics (from some random fan cover on tiktok LOL) and just dying with amusement at myself for overthinking this to this extent. so it turns out that weird pause was weird because a bit of song was cut out HAHAHA. but also goes to show how much noah kahan is goated man, cuz i was just gonna credit him regardless.
wondering if i'm the only fool who made such a gaffe? literally had this on loop the whole week and didn't realise.