Listen to this when
False Confidence
confident on the outside, spiraling on the inside 🎭
Who it's for
Noah Kahan's early work circles around anxiety and self-doubt, and this song looks at the gap between how sure he seems and how unsure he feels.
Insecure behind a front→Honest and self-accepting
Feelings it meets
What it is
"False Confidence" by Noah Kahan was released as a single in September 2018 and opens his debut album Busyhead; he wrote it with Chris DeStefano. Kahan said the song is about believing in yourself without taking yourself too seriously. Its music video personifies the self-doubt that creeps into one's thinking, and Kahan said making it felt almost therapeutic.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Age: All ages
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state,William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29
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