"Save Me" is a song by American musician Jelly Roll, released on June 25, 2020, as a single from his 2020 studio album Self Medicated.[1][2] An official remix of the song with American country music singer Lainey Wilson was released on May 12, 2023, as the second single from his album Whitsitt Chapel (2023).[3]
Background
The music video of the song premiered on June 16, 2020. In the description, Jelly Roll stated, "This one is a little bit of a curveball for me. I don't usually do these stripped down acoustic videos, but writing this song made me feel something and I felt y'all needed some insight into the more vulnerable side of the music business."[4]
In regard to his inspiration for writing the song, Jelly Roll told Apple Music:
It was the middle of the pandemic. And when I say middle of it, I mean we were spraying boxes with Lysol. And I just couldn't sit through that. I was like, "We got to work." And I was in such a dark space because of that; I knew I needed to write. My father had just died a year before. So I'm still learning how to grieve through that. And then I'm like, "We got to write. I got to get this out of me." So "Save Me" came from a really dark space. It's still really hard to sing.[5]
In a June, 2024 interview with Howard Stern, Jelly Roll further revealed that inspiration for the song came from Bette Midler's song "The Rose".[6]