Featuring themes of public fame and notoriety, "You Know My Name" was written by Love, guitarist Micko Larkin and bassist Shawn Dailey.

An accompanying music video, directed by Maximilla Lukacs, features Love performing "You Know My Name" as a character abandoned on her wedding day inspired by Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations.

[2] In a television interview with BBC Breakfast, Love noted that the main themes of "You Know My Name" were fame and notoriety, referring to it as "a really simple, sweary, fast in-your-face song" about her public reputation.

[6] "You Know My Name" was released as a double A-side single, also featuring the song "Wedding Day", on May 4, 2014  on Cherry Forever Records, under exclusive license to Kobalt Label Services.

[8] Love supported the release of "You Know My Name"/"Wedding Day" with an eight-date tour of the United Kingdom, beginning at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in London on May 11 and concluding at Think Tank in Newcastle upon Tyne on May 22.

"[13] Writing for Stereogum, Michael Nelson referred to "You Know My Name" as "old-school, no-frills, no-fat punk rock with a huge, knockout hook on the chorus and a perfectly shredded vocal performance that only gets stronger as it gets more ragged", adding "this … is Courtney at her best".

Love stated that her intention was to "look like an old Victorian doll crossed with a Dickensian character called Miss Havisham, who got abandoned on her wedding day at the altar and lived to be a hundred".