Let Me Down is the fourth track on Oliver Tree’s debut album, Ugly Is Beautiful. On his official social media, he said:

Tree stated this song was about him letting his fans down by postponing his album, and how he doesn’t care whether or not they forgive him or not.

It was first uploaded to South Korean music streaming service Naver Music on April 1st. South Korean Instagram user s________d2c was the first to discover the song on April 2nd, 2020, with the high-quality upload of the song being leaked the following day on Tree’s subreddit by u/aldidas.