Noah Kahan’s new Netflix documentary, Out of Body, opens with the singer preparing for his shows at Fenway Park, then follows him through a 95-minute portrait of a musician who has gone from internet breakout to arena-level headliner. The film arrives as Kahan is working on his fifth album, The Great Divide, which was due for release on Apr. 24.
Kahan became famous for Stick Season after the song gained traction on TikTok in 2020, but the documentary makes clear that the hit was built on years of work before that moment. He had already released two prior albums and two EPs by the time the song took off, and the film shows how quickly the scale of his career changed after that. He went on to headline concerts at Fenway Park to a sold-out crowd, a milestone that frames much of the documentary’s early tension.
The weight of Out of Body is not just in the venues it shows, but in how openly Kahan talks about what success has cost him. He has struggled with body dysmorphia for years, and the documentary also takes in his complicated relationship with his parents, especially his father. That candor is part of what makes the film feel like more than a standard puff piece: it captures a performer who is already successful, already touring, and already thinking about the next record while cameras are rolling.
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The broader backdrop matters because Kahan’s rise did not happen in a straight line. He built an audience through TikTok in 2020 while constructing what became his biggest hit, then kept moving through a run that has included collaborations with Post Malone, Kacey Musgraves, Sam Fender, Grace Abrams, Olivia Rodrigo, and Zach Bryan. During the filming of Out of Body, he was touring and working on his next album, which gives the documentary its central friction: the public version of Kahan is at full speed, while the private version is still sorting out what that success has done to him.
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He said he checks social media after a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, a line that lands as both ordinary and revealing. Out of Body answers its own question by showing that Kahan is not just documenting a breakthrough; he is trying to hold onto himself in the middle of it.
