Songfacts®:

• "If It Only Gets Better" finds Joji turning a familiar self-help idea inside out. Built almost entirely around a single, looping thought, the song repeats its core philosophy like a mantra that slowly loses its comfort.
  
  If it only gets better from here
  Then what's there to change about it?
  
  We get the idea that Joji is dealing with a bad case of ennui as the song ends with a hazy outro of stacked, ghostlike vocals that drift without resolution.
• The music video, directed by Mamesjao, visualizes that emotional limbo. Joji moves through a neon-soaked club surrounded by people and motion, yet remains detached, present in body but elsewhere mentally. The hollow, dissociated tone mirrors the song's theme of feeling stuck inside a loop, even when circumstances are supposedly improving. Visually, the clip deliberately echoes the aesthetic of Joji's 2018 single "Yeah Right," drawing a line between early-career disillusionment and its quieter, more internalized evolution.
• Released on November 4, 2025, "If It Only Gets Better" served as the second single from Joji's fourth album, Piss in the Wind. At just 1 minute and 9 seconds in length, the song exemplifies Joji's preference for brevity, a stylistic choice prominent across the album, which packs 10 tracks into under two minutes.