It was released on March 26, 2018, by Riser House and Columbia Nashville as the debut single from his first studio album Telling All My Secrets (2018).
Despite not charting in Australia, it received a Gold certification from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), denoting sales of 35,000 units in that country.
An accompanying music video for the single, directed by Justin Key, features Tenpenny in a flooded house.
The song is a recollection of a male narrator's attempts to recover emotionally from a failed relationship, and doing so while drinking alcohol, claiming that "drunk me can't get over you."
Tenpenny said that the rest of the song had mostly been written, but that he and his co-writers could not come up with a suitable hook until Jordan Schmidt got up to use the restroom and then returned with the phrase "drunk me".