You may know him from his many years on YouTube and various social media platforms, but now Noah Adams, professionally known as NOAHFINNCE, is releasing his debut album, Growing Up On the Internet, out March 8 via Hopeless Records. With encouragement from his growing fanbase of almost a million subscribers on Youtube, 726,000 followers on Tiktok, 364,000 on Instagram and so many more, Noah is ready to show the world what he’s been working on. 

Quite literally growing up on the internet, Noah shared his life and many milestones through his many online platforms. The current generations grew up with him and dutifully watched as Noah shared his experiences with coming out as trans, navigating an internet-centered world, and is now pursuing a career in music. Always looking for a community to call his own, Noah found an understanding in the music of My Chemical Romance, Green Day, and Fall Out Boy. With these influences shaping his childhood, his upcoming LP will also include the impact of The Prodigy, Nirvana, Kesha, and The Misfits. 

The community he created online not only allowed him to express himself and let his voice be heard, but it empowered him to contribute to diverse perspectives and participate in the shaping of our technology focused future. Noah wanted a community to be a part of so he built his own that established a safe space for trans acceptance and normalization. Now, he’s headlining shows across the world and continues to share his influential persona with fans everywhere. 

In March, NOAHFINNCE will kick off his U.S. headlining tour with support from Chase Petra, and follow Hopeless Records signees TX2 and Teenage Joans. In the midst of all the excitement, we are excited to have had the chance to chat with Noah. Read all about it below!

THIRTEEN: Hey Noah! Thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us. Could you tell us a little bit more about you?

NOAHFINNCE: Hey! I’m Noah, I play a bunch of instruments, write a lot of music and I grew up on the internet.

THIRTEEN: Just as your debut album says, you literally grew up on the internet. It’s such a unique experience to this generation, in what ways do you feel it shaped who you are today? 

NOAHFINNCE: Oh god, that’s a big question! It’s both helped me and hindered me immensely. It’s allowed me to find a community of people that I didn’t even know I needed, it’s allowed me to feel comfortable in my own identity and it’s allowed me to do what I love. But it’s also made me very self critical and hyper analytical of everything I do because I grew up with hundreds of thousands of people having opinions about me. I would be a completely different person if I never posted my first Youtube video.

THIRTEEN: Is there anything you wish you could change about growing up on and being exposed to the internet for so long and at such a young age?

NOAHFINNCE: Oh, honestly there’s not enough time to list them all. When you’re getting constant feedback about who you are, who you should be and what people don’t like about you, it’s hard to not internalize those things. I think if I could go back in time and remind myself to stop questioning my own self perception based on the opinions of strangers who don’t know me then I could have saved myself a lot of trouble. 

THIRTEEN: Not only have you grown up on the internet but you’ve shared many milestones with social media. Is there one in particular that you feel shines above the rest?

NOAHFINNCE: I mean playing Wembley obviously has to be up there but I think honestly this album that’s about to come out is something I’m so proud of. I’ve put so much of myself into it and so much love and hard work has gone into making it so I think it has to take the top spot.

THIRTEEN: It’s mentioned that your fans encouraged you to start releasing music. Did you previously have an interest in music? 

NOAHFINNCE: Oh god yeah, obviously!! If you look at my first YouTube videos, they’re all covers. I started growing an audience from the singing videos I made when I was a teenager and they’re still the top viewed videos on my channel. I started off on social media as a My Chemical Romance fan account before I started growing a following so the music has always been there. 

THIRTEEN: A few singles from Growing Up On The Internet have already been released. Why did you choose these as fan’s first sneak peek into your debut album?

NOAHFINNCE: Well I wrote “I Know Better” before I really knew what the album was gonna be about but it was the most exciting thing I had written for a long time and I was so into the change in direction so it made sense to be the first single. “Growing Up On The Internet” was a single for obvious reasons - it’s entirely what the whole album is about. “Scumbag” was the first song I had written about transphobia and I just had to release it when I did - the rise in anti-trans rhetoric has been so overwhelming and I really just needed to talk about it. And “3 Day Headache” was just a fun little song that I thought would get people excited for the album. They’re all quite different which is definitely a reflection of the album as a whole.

THIRTEEN: My Chemical Romance, Green Day, and Fall Out Boy was your first true understanding of music, while The Prodigy, Nirvana, Kesha, and The Misfits are big influences to your album. How does this range of artists influence the ways in which you write, produce, and release music?

NOAHFINNCE: I see all of those artists as being very in your face which definitely comes out in my music both lyrically and sonically. They’re all very authentic in terms of the messages they put out into the world but also in how they write their music. I wouldn’t say any of those artists struggle to write from the heart and say what they believe and I’ve definitely channeled that in my own music. There’s always been punk influences in everything I’ve written which is obviously from the early My Chem, Green Day, Misfits stuff but growing up listening to The Prodigy and Ke$ha definitely contributed to the more electronic feel of some of the album. 

THIRTEEN: How do you think the dynamics of interacting with fans online versus in person differ?

NOAHFINNCE: They’re entirely different things in my head! I spent years never meeting anybody who followed me so it was a shock to the system meeting the first few fans and thinking “Oh wait you’re actually real people, you don’t just exist on the internet”. I tried for so long to keep my “internet thing” a secret to everybody in my real life so I must have just shut off the part of my brain that processed the fact that every view I got on a video wasn’t just a number, it was a person. I love meeting fans in person, so many of them have been keeping up with my life since I was literally a child so meeting somebody that’s essentially grown up with me is insane… 

THIRTEEN: What are you most looking forward to as you kick off your headline U.S. tour in March with Chase Petra, TX2, and Teenage Joans?

NOAHFINNCE: Oh, honestly just TOUR LIFE! It’s so much fun spending a month with people who pretty much become your family and getting to bond over how silly our lives are. Obviously, I’m excited to play the shows because we’ve really leveled it up this time but there’s something so special about the bonds you build with people you tour with. It’s gonna be fun!

THIRTEEN: You have an incredible list of accomplishments that follow you. What are you hoping to do or achieve in 2024?

NOAHFINNCE: I don’t really set goals, I kinda just enjoy taking everything in and being pleasantly surprised when things go right. Playing bigger shows would be cool though!