Better Days (Radar song)

Better Days is a song by American glam metal band Radar. Written by band members Tony Radar, Toby Kellner and Johnnie Ramirez and produced by Karolina Frenz, the track serves as the lead single from their third studio album Everybody Stay Together. It was released on July 3, 2021, and peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming their first Billboard number-one single.

Background
Tony Radar, Toby Kellner and Johnnie Ramirez wrote the song in mid-2017. Ramirez wanted the band to record a song emulating "college rock" bands he grew up listening to, such as and.

The band traveled to in September 2019 to record the track with producer Karolina Frenz at Dierks Studios in.

Composition and lyrics
The track has been described as a "fast-paced love song", and as a jangle pop, power pop and pop rock song with glam metal elements. It is written is in a key halfway between D and D-sharp. The song's acoustic guitar riff is performed by Tony Radar on a 1981 Yamaha L-25AT he has owned since high school. Toby Kellner performs the song's "hair metal-flavored" guitar solo using his Kramer Pacer signature model played through a Rockman headphone amplifier.