Love You Less

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"Love You Less"
Joji - Love You Less.jpg
Single by Joji
from the album Piss in the Wind
Released2 January 2026
Genre
Length3:21
Label
Songwriters
Producer Ricky Reed
Joji singles chronology
"Past Won't Leave My Bed"
(2025)		"Love You Less"
(2026)		"Last of a Dying Breed"
(2026)

"Love You Less" (stylized in all caps) is a song by Japanese-Australian singer-songwriter Joji, released as the fourth single from his fourth studio album Piss in the Wind on 2 January 2026. It was produced by Ricky Reed.

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Composition

"Love You Less" has been described as shoegaze [1] [2] , indie rock [3] , and dream pop [4] , featuring "swirling" textures, "melancholic" guitars, and steady drum work. [1] [5] Lyrically, the song details Joji's feelings towards an unbalanced, "push-and-pull" romance, [3] with one person being fully committed and the other only growing more distant. [5]

Critical reception

Ken Partridge of Genius compared the song's sound to My Bloody Valentine. [2] Robin Murray of Clash found that the song sees Joji "at his most open" lyrically, and called the song's shoegaze-inspired textures "gorgeous". [1] Elijah Pareño of Rolling Stone Philippines described the song as having a "loose" and "fragile" quality, and found Joji stepping into a different genre to work in his favor. [4]

Visualizer

A 360-degree visualizer was released alongside the song on January 2. The computer-generated video is shown from the perspective of a character "flying through a city under siege" into space, encountering "all sorts of sci-fi and trippy visuals". [5] Ken Partridge of Genius compared the visualizer to a Star Wars video game. [2]

Charts

Chart performance for "Love You Less"
Chart (2026)Peak
position
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [6] 2
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [7] 29

References

  1. 1 2 3 Murray, Robin (2 January 2026). "Joji's 'Love You Less' Conjures Shoegaze Heaven". Clash . Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 Partridge, Ken (2 January 2026). "Joji Goes Shoegaze On New Song "Love You Less"". Genius . Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  3. 1 2 Molloy, Laura (3 January 2026). "Joji shares melancholic new single "Love You Less" and sends doppelgänger to do promo". NME . Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  4. 1 2 Pareño, Elijah (14 January 2026). "Joji, Robyn, HEY JUNE!, and All the Songs You Need to Know". Rolling Stone Philippines . Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 Taylor, Steven (3 January 2026). "Joji Shares Melancholic New Single "Love You Less"". mxdwn Music. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  6. ↑ "Hot 40 Singles". Recorded Music NZ. 9 January 2026. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  7. ↑ "Hot Rock & Alternative Songs: week of January 17, 2026". Billboard. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
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