Joji has dropped “If It Solely Will get Higher,” a monitor from his upcoming album Piss In The Wind (sure, actually), and actually, we’re nonetheless making an attempt to determine what simply occurred.
The monitor opens in a strip membership with all of the visible vitality you’d anticipate, then instantly hits you with… delicate acoustic guitar? The place’s the bass drop? The entice hi-hats?
As an alternative, producer Wonton stated “let’s preserve it unhappy” and delivered probably probably the most melancholic strip membership anthem ever created.
The complete lyrical content material boils right down to: “If issues get higher, why hassle altering something?” It’s the type of logic your mate makes use of to justify not going to the gymnasium, besides Joji makes it sound poetic.
The remaining is simply “ooh, ooh, ooh, which, honest sufficient, typically that’s all you possibly can say.
Combined by Jeff Ellis and clocking in at what appears like two minutes, the monitor has Reddit debating whether or not that is deep inventive expression or simply an elaborate album teaser. The video, directed by Mamesjao, leans into the confusion fantastically.
Right here’s the factor although: it type of works? Joji’s constructed his profession on making disappointment sound lovely, transitioning from Filthy Frank to real artist.
If Piss In The Wind delivers extra of this bizarre, weak vitality, we’re right here for it.
Whether or not that is genius minimalism or simply actually good advertising for 2026’s album stays unclear. Both approach, it’s distinctly, unapologetically Joji.
