The band released a video explaining the meaning of the song a week after it’s release, with Aaron saying:

The first song on the record is called “The Best.” I came to the realization that I’ll never be the best at anything so I thought I’d write a song about it. But also hope that it would motivate people. It’s always fun to aspire to be the best of something even though it’s in fact impossible. And especially in today’s day and age of competing to see who can get the most likes, have the most followers, and sort of this kind of superficial world we’re living in. Although it’s probably been this way since the beginning of time, it seems a lot more evident and there’s more proof of it with social media. So, this song, while I can see a lot of people being inspired to train harder and get more radical in that sort of way. And now that this song is out I’ve had a lot of time to think about how to explain the messaging of the song and its actual meaning and I realized that, simply put, it’s about finding and discovering the best version of yourself.

It occurred to me that when I was starting to come up with the concept of the song, the melody, the blueprint of it rhythmically, all that, that I’m hard on myself. I’m my own worst critic. It’s unhealthy how much pressure we put on ourselves. “The Best” is the opposite of the “Eye of the Tiger” or the Rocky theme. It’s a self-deprecating, sad song when I hear it. But if it inspires people to push a little harder, that’s awesome. – Aaron Bruno