Social media can either make or break a person. In today’s music industry, it’s become one of the most powerful tools for rising artists trying to stand out in an increasingly crowded landscape.
For Nicholas Eagan, better known as No Good (stylized as no good), social media has become both a spotlight and a battlefield. His online presence attracts just as much criticism as it does admiration. Instead of shying away from it, he’s learned to turn every reaction, positive or negative, into fuel.
“I have a very controversial voice,” Eagan began. “People love it, or people hate it. I feed off the positivity. For every hate message I get, I get an amazing DM about how much my voice has inspired a person. I look at the positive side of it, and I am doing what I love.”
Eagan started posting covers on his Instagram and Tiktok accounts in 2020 that have gardener him millions of views on both platforms. But, despite the acclaim, Eagan wants to start to turn away from simply being a tribute artist. “I am currently in a transitional phase where I try to focus more on original content and dial down a little bit on the covers,” he said, “just do the covers people are asking for.”
Make It Out, released in June 2025, marked a turning point in Eagan’s career. After years of building an audience through his covers, this EP became a way for him to reintroduce himself. Eagan was no longer just voice behind other people’s songs, but an artist with a story of his own to tell.
“I started as a cover artist on Tiktok which is how people got to know me and so [this EP] was this provess of finding those OG fans that have been responding from old originals I had posted on tiktok [and appealing to them],” he explained.
Make It Out follows themes of coming of age in a small town and trying to find oneself in their early 20s. Consisting of folk and rock genres, Eagan admits that this EP is something he is truly proud of and what he wanted to do all along.
“A big factor for my latest project was just about discovering yourself; my goal was just emotions,” Eagan said. “Emotion is my favorite thing in music, just trying to write songs that don’t just hit you as catchy and fun to sing along to, but also hit deep. That is my goal for all the songs I write, especially with my voice, which is a bit weirder than other voices. I find the best way to come across in my music is highlighting the lyrics that I speak about.”
“‘Make it out’, the opening track and what I named the EP after, was the song that hit close to home and really summed up the project. I spent a lot of time doing those songs in LA for short trips and then coming back to Toronto, so it felt like this escape doing this music, and it came to blossom when we put all these songs together, and it felt like a coming of age,” he said.
Following the release of his EP, Eagan has no plans of slowing down any time soon. “I have a lot of new music that I have spent the last year and a bit recording because this EP was kind of from the past few years, so I have a ton of new music I have been sitting on that I am dying to release,” he admitted.
But Eagan won’t be sticking to a set sound for this next time around. “Towards the end of high school, I had a rock band with my brother and our friends, and it was ridiculously fun. That is how I started writing because we would do a little bit of original music…It isn’t really in that direction now [rock], but it will be soon. There has been an evolution after this EP.”
Eagan’s passion for music is evident in every work he speaks about it. He is not only a cover artist, but an artist with his own stories to tell. And for him, the most meaningful part isn’t the views or the numbers, but the people. “The DMs I get when people just relate to my songs that have helped them through hard times [is amazing]. Sometimes it’s not even from my original music but from my covers,” he shares. Whether it’s his originals or his covers, that impact is what keeps him going.
Photo taken from Instagram @heyitsnogood | Interviewed on October 22, 2025
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