In 2012, King released her debut EP "The Elle King EP" on RCA; one track from that EP, "Playing for Keeps", is the theme song for VH1's Mob Wives Chicago series.
She released her debut album "Love Stuff" in 2015. It produced the US top ten single "Ex's & Oh's", which earned her two Grammy Award nominations. King has also toured with acts such as Of Monsters and Men, Train, James Bay, The Chicks, Heart, Joan Jett, Michael Kiwanuka, and Miranda Lambert. She is the daughter of actor and comedian Rob Schneider and former model London King. King uses her mother's surname to distinguish her career and identity from her father's. "People know who my dad is," she told ABC News, "but I think that my voice and my music speaks for itself: that I am my own person."
King is a four-time Grammy Award nominee, two each in the rock and country categories, and received honors from the Country Music Association Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards.
King was born on July 3, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, to then-Saturday Night Live cast member Rob Schneider and London King, a former model. Her parents divorced and her mother remarried. She grew up living in Ohio, between Wellston and Columbus. When she was nine, her stepfather, Justin Tesa, gave her a record by all-female hard-rock band the Donnas; she views this as the pivotal moment when she decided she wanted to be a musician. Around this time, she also started listening to the Runaways and Blondie, and she made her acting debut alongside her father in the movie Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.
At the age of 13, King started playing guitar, immersing herself in the music of Otis Redding, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, AC/DC (she has the phrase "dirty deeds" tattooed on her biceps), and Earl Scruggs. Her interest in the country and bluegrass of Hank Williams and Earl Scruggs inspired her to learn the banjo. During her teenage years, she attended Buck's Rock camp in Connecticut, where she starred successfully in a number of musicals.
King spent her teenage years in New York City, but she has also lived in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Copenhagen, Denmark. Upon graduating from Elisabeth Irwin High School/Little Red School House, she moved to Philadelphia to enroll at University of the Arts, studying painting and film. During these college years, she had an artistic epiphany seeing a live show where the band onstage used a banjo purely for accompaniment purposes, eschewing the bluegrass and country musical vocabulary traditionally associated with the instrument. King then began to use the banjo as a compositional tool. After college, she briefly lived in Copenhagen and Los Angeles, before moving back to New York where she currently resides in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
In September 2014, King released "Ex's & Oh's", which serves as the lead single off her debut album. She released the album, Love Stuff on February 17, 2015. She performed "Ex's & Oh's" the next day on The Today Show to promote it. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming King's first top ten single in the United States. "Ex's & Oh's" received two nominations at the 58th Grammy Awards: Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. In July 2015, King supported Modest Mouse on their UK tour. "Under the Influence" and "America's Sweetheart" were later released as singles for rock radio and mainstream radio, respectively. In 2016, her single "Good Girls" featured on the Ghostbusters soundtrack and played over the movie's credits. In 2016, she teamed up with country singer Dierks Bentley for the song "Different for Girls". They performed this song at the 50th CMA Awards on November 2, 2016, when she and Bentley won the award for Musical Event of the Year.
On March 6, 2017, she premiered a new single "Wild Love" featuring a sparse electronic production, marking a slight departure from her previous style in music.
King released her second studio album "Shake the Spiri", on October 19, 2018, which she made with her band the Brethren. On August 3, 2019, she was featured singing on a version of Lindsey Stirling's "The Upside". Throughout 2019, King served as a guest co-host on the MTV series Catfish: The TV Show opposite lead host Nev Schulman.
In 2021, it was revealed she was pregnant with her first child with tattoo artist Dan Tooker. On September 1, 2021, she welcomed a baby boy. King has several tattoos, and worked at a tattoo company called East Side Ink.
No One Can Save You
Elle King Lyrics
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Don't try to say anything
I gave you my everything
And you threw it all away, away
And I try to build you up
But you just fall, you just fall
And I can't save you no more, no I can't save you from yourself
I call for you but you never come
You broke me up and just left me undone
You showed me who I can't be
So you enjoy a life of lonely misery
And I try to build you up
But you just fall, you just fall
And I can't save you no more, no I can't save you from yourself
No one can save you, no one can save you from yourself
No one can save you, no one can save you from yourself
Du du du, du du, du, du, du, du, du, du, du, du du, du, du, du
The lyrics to Elle King's song "No One Can Save You" convey both the singer's frustration and sadness in dealing with someone who repeatedly self-destructs despite her efforts to help them. In the first stanza, the singer is resigned to the fact that the other person has thrown everything she has given them away and that words of apology will not change anything. In the second stanza, the singer realizes that her help is not making a difference in the other person's life, and that they are unable to help themselves. The line "I can't save you from yourself" reinforces the idea that the problem lies within the other person, and that the singer cannot fix it for them.
The chorus serves as the main message of the song, stating that no one can save the other person from themselves. The repetition of these lines illustrates the singer's frustration in coming to this realization. The last two lines of the chorus - "No one can save you, no one can save you from yourself / Du du du, du du, du, du, du, du, du, du, du, du du, du, du, du" - are somewhat cryptic, but could be interpreted as a sign of defeat or exhaustion on the part of the singer. The repeated melody seems to convey a sense of hopelessness or resignation.
In the final stanza, the singer acknowledges the hurt and sadness she feels as a result of the other person's actions. The line "You broke me up and just left me undone" suggests that the singer's attempts to help the other person have taken a toll on her own well-being. The song ends on a somber note, with the repeated chorus line emphasizing the idea that the other person is ultimately responsible for their own actions and well-being.
Line by Line Meaning
Don't try to say sorry
Don't bother apologizing
Don't try to say anything
Don't bother trying to explain
I gave you my everything
I gave you all of me
And you threw it all away, away
And you discarded it all
And I try to build you up
I tried to uplift you
But you just fall, you just fall
But you keep slipping back down
And I can't save you no more, no I can't save you from yourself
And I can no longer rescue you, I can't save you from your own self-destructive ways
No one can save you, no one can save you from yourself
No one else can save you, you must save yourself
I call for you but you never come
I try to reach you but you never respond
You broke me up and just left me undone
You shattered me and left me incomplete
You showed me who I can't be
You revealed to me who I don't want to become
So you enjoy a life of lonely misery
So you're content living a sad, isolated life
No one can save you, no one can save you from yourself
No one else can save you, you must save yourself
No one can save you, no one can save you from yourself
No one else can save you, you must save yourself
Du du du, du du, du, du, du, du, du, du, du du, du, du, du
Instrumental outro
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Tanner Schneider
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Lisa
No One Can Save You
Don't try to say sorry
Don't try to say anything
I gave you my everything
And you threw it all away, away
And I try to build you up
But you just fall, you just fall
And I can't save you no more, no I can't save you from yourself
No one can save you, no one can save you from yourself
I call for you but you never come
You broke me up and just left me undone
You showed me who I can't be
So you enjoy a life of lonely misery
And I try to build you up
But you just fall, you just fall
And I can't save you no more, no I can't save you from yourself
No one can save you, no one can save you from yourself
No one can save you, no one can save you from yourself
Melissa Manzana
I want to fight people who call her a one hit wonder 😑She is so gorgeous and talented 😍
walkinginthesunshine
Yes this! People dont know good shit when it smacks them in the face. I think Unfortunately her depression forced her to take time off and the music industry has been unforgiving. But i really hope she makes another album someday. She is beautiful & talented & deserves success
Dirty Jankey
Love her sound ..and just the rawness of her songs..
Jo Anne Roberts
Absolutley
Leslie Aue
Her one hit was the wrong hit. It messed everything up she is so different than that played out
Barbra Bonugli
I’ll back you up in that fight! Those idiots don’t have a clue!! Her voice is amazing!
Mari Herrera
I love her sound. She reminds me of a jazzy, raspy, good country, Janis Joplin
heavytfk1
She is as Beautiful as her voice is and I love it!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Sondra Hickman
she is amazing live! one of the best concerts I have seen! very talented. her whole album is great, she is refreshing and not like a lot of artist today! music needs her!! and she was raised from the area I was born Jackson Ohio!! love her!!
Jessica Sutton
Lord, she is amazing! One of the best voices of modern time.