Both artists wrote the song along with Laura Veltz, Keith "Ten4" Sorrells, Warren "Oak" Felder, and Alex Niceforo, while production was handled by the latter three.

Containing electric guitar riffs, "Eat Me" emphasizes on Lovato's feminine image and how she sees contradictions in the American media and music industry.

After ensuring a "funeral" for her former pop music on social media,[1] Demi Lovato announced her eighth studio album, Holy Fvck, on June 6, 2022, along with its cover art, release date, and with a link to her official store where fans could order physical copies of the record, but did not immediately reveal the tracklist.

[2] On July 14, she confirmed the track listing of the album, in which "Eat Me", featuring American singer-songwriter Royal & the Serpent, appears as the fourth song.

[8] It was written by Lovato, Royal & the Serpent, Laura Veltz, Keith "Ten4" Sorrells, Warren "Oak" Felder, and Alex Niceforo, and produced by the latter three.

", lines that the magazine Spin interpreted as "a direct callout to the hyperfeminine popstar she felt she had to be", referring to the moment when Lovato came out as non-binary in 2021, adopting they/them as primary pronouns.

[13] Containing "punchy" electric guitar riffs,[14] "industrial grind, tempo shifts and raging yelps", it was described by The Guardian's Sophie Harris as a dark moment on the album.

[16] Melissa Ruggieri, writing for USA Today, compared "Eat Me" to the music of the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and said that the track sees Lovato and Royal & the Serpent "tiptoe in on a creeping goth vibe before the song explodes into a fireball of anger".