

Nevertheless, Whatever rejuvenated her career - after its release, critics were praising her songwriting, as were peers like Elvis Costello, Difford & Tilbrook, and Andy Partridge.Įarly in 1995, Mann had a modest hit with "That's Just What You Are," a song included on the soundtrack to the television series Melrose Place. However, the album was just a small hit, spending only seven weeks on the American charts, where it peaked at 127. Her first solo album, Whatever, was a more introspective, folk-tinged effort than 'Til Tuesday's albums, and received uniformly positive reviews upon its release in the summer of 1993. After releasing three albums with the group, she broke up the band and embarked on a solo career. Unlike many such music videos, the "Save Me" video used no digital manipulation the scenes were shot at the end of filming days with Mann and actors who were asked to stay in place.During the '80s, Aimee Mann led the post-new wave pop group 'Til Tuesday. The video inserts Mann into various scenes from the film as she performs the song. The music video, shot during the filming of Magnolia, was directed by the film's director, Paul Thomas Anderson, and uses many of the film's actors, including Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Cruise, William H.

It is Mann's best-known song as a solo artist, having also been nominated for a 2001 Grammy award as Best Pop Female Vocal (she lost to Macy Gray's "I Try"). " Furthermore, Mann has occasionally dedicated her song to Collins in several different venues, albeit in jest. By way of introduction to a live performance, Mann has referred to "Save Me" as "the song that lost an Oscar to Phil Collins and his cartoon monkey love song. In 1999 "Save Me" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, which it lost to "You'll Be in My Heart" from the Disney movie Tarzan. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo (2000), as well as the 2007 compilation album Acoustic 07. The song also appears on the European edition of the album Bachelor No. It appears on the Magnolia soundtrack, which was released on December 7, 1999. Save Me is a song written and performed by Aimee Mann for use in the film Magnolia.
