Stella Lefty has explained how Noah Kahan came to receive a songwriting credit on her hit ‘Boston’ and how the songs’ similarities came about.
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The track was released in March and has now climbed to a peak of Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100. For some listeners, its chorus bears a close resemblance to Kahan’s 2022 breakout hit ‘Stick Season’, and Kahan is credited as a songwriter on ‘Boston’, alongside Lefty, Grace Enger, Jacob Hindlin and Joe Reeves.
Now, Lefty has spoken to Vanity Fair about how the song came about, explaining that she wrote it about her boyfriend, country musician Vincent Mason, shortly after the pair met in Nashville.
When she became aware that some had likened it to ‘Stick Season’, she said she did not immediately recognise the similarity. “When I was writing this song, I wasn’t thinking about Noah Kahan,” she said.
Kahan’s representatives contacted Lefty to let her know that they thought the similarities were real, and Lefty has said she decided to give Kahan the songwriting credit before the song was officially released.
Kahan, meanwhile, is currently touring in support of his fourth album ‘The Great Divide‘, and he recently announced three ‘Last Of The Bugs’ stadium shows in the UK and Ireland for July next year, including the biggest headline concert of his career at London’s Wembley Stadium.
NME awarded Kahan’s 2024 Wembley Arena show five stars, noting: “Having made folk-pop cool again – it was once, perhaps fairly, derided as ‘stomp clap hey’ music – there’s no denying the torch-bearing troubadour was made to play massive stages.”.
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