Sixteen Saltines

White unveiled this raw rocker about a girl with whom he had a complicated relationship for the first time during his March 3, 2012 appearance on Saturday Night Live. The studio version was subsequently released via White's YouTube channel on March 13, 2012 and the vinyl single was made available to stores a week later.

This was the second single to be released from Blunderbuss, the first album released solely under Jack White's name after recordings with the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather. During a playback for the record in London, England, White said the sessions weren't planned for anything in particular until the process was further down the line. "I didn't really know I was doing it until I was doing it; four or five songs in, it felt like it was turning in to something," he explained. "That's how it started, I got three songs out of the first session, and it just sorta kept going. I didn't know if they'd be for a Dead Weather record or a Raconteurs record, but by about the sixth or seventh song it felt like I was making a record of its own, so I just thought 'I guess I'll call this Me'."

On several occasions White had no material prepared in advance before going into the studio. Discussing the recording and writing process, he said: "Sometimes I would challenge myself, when I had nothing, to make something up on the spot, although I'd tell the other players that I already had something in mind. I would just sit down at the piano, while six or seven people were standing around, waiting for me to tell them what to do. I'd make up the changes and the tempo as I went along." (Source The Quietus).