Save Me

Save Me was written for Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 film Magnolia and released on its soundtrack. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Mann performed it at the 72nd Academy Awards, where it lost to Phil Collins's You'll Be in My Heart from Tarzan. Mann later said it really gave a blood transfusion to her career, though it did not take her from five people to 5,000: it was an influx of energy.

The video, shot during the filming of Magnolia and directed by Anderson, places Mann in scenes with actors including Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Cruise, William H. Macy and John C. Reilly. It uses no digital manipulation: scenes were shot at the end of filming days, with the actors asked to stay in place.

In 2013 the Guardian's Ian Gittins called it a piquant delight, worthy of Joni Mitchell in her prime, in a review of a Royal Festival Hall show. In 2022 Pitchfork placed it 193rd on its list of the best songs of the 1990s, with Eric Torres praising its loping guitar melodies, shuddering accordion and gentle percussion.