Morgan Wallen has released the music video for his single, “I Got Better,” directed by Justin Clough. The cinematic video uses a car accident as a metaphor for the wreckage of a relationship, with the storyline following Wallen as he walks away from the crash and his wounds gradually begin to heal – as he does also.
“I Got Better” was co-written by Wallen with Michael Hardy, Chase McGill, Blake Pendergrass, Ernest K. Smith (ERNEST), Charlie Handsome and Joe Reeves, during an early morning songwriting session at Wallen’s farmhouse at the end of 2024. The song is featured on Wallen’s fourth studio album, I’m The Problem, comprised of 37-tracks. The album also features collaborations with Tate McRae on “What I Want;” Eric Church on “Number 3 and Number 7;” HARDY on “Come Back As A Redneck;” ERNEST on “The Dealer;” and Post Malone on “I Ain’t Comin’ Back.”
According to Billboard, the inspiration behind the song was first initiated by ERNEST during a conversation surrounding religion. Co-writer Pendergrass said: “ERNEST was going off of that conversation. He just sang that melody, like, ‘The world got bigger since the Bible got wrote.’”
Wallen went on to say he had a clear vision for the song: “I was adamant that I wanted it to be where the guy literally didn’t change anything in his life other than the girl was gone. The girl could be anything to me. It wasn’t necessarily a relationship with another human. It could have been a relationship with anything in your life that was holding you back, and the only thing that you did was eliminate that, and everything became clearer in your life.”
I’m the Problem has already spent 12 nonconsecutive weeks atop the all-genre Billboard 200 album chart and launched four #1 singles on the country charts.
Check out the video for ‘I Got Better’ – HERE.
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