Kill My Boyfriend

"Kill My Boyfriend" is a song by Natalia Kills. It is the fourth song featured on her debut studio album, Perfectionist.
The song was first released alongside the United States/Canada release of her album on August 16, 2011. It was released as the album's fourth and final single on January 10, 2012, alongside the music video.
==Lyrics==
==Background==
At performances that took place around June of 2011, Teddy allegedly shouted "kill my boyfriend" to the crowd."“Kill My Boyfriend!”, that’s what Natalia shouted out on the latest venues and that’s the title for a brand new track that will appear on the upcoming debut Record Perfectionist..." June 9, 2011. Post about Kill My Boyfriend being featured on the American edition of Perfectionist. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via NataliaKills.org. The song's existence was mentioned for the first time on June 6, 2011. It was also reported that the song would be featured on the United States release of Perfectionist."KILL MY BOYFRIEND will be featured in Natalia's Perfectionist US edition, who's excited to hear it?" June 6, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @NataliaKillsIT on Twitter. It isn't confirmed where exactly this information came from, but it can be inferred that a fanpage leaked it due to tweets made around the time."@RobinKills Kill My Boyfriend & Hearts To Break? Whatwhat?" June 6, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @01lander on Twitter.
Lyrics to the song were leaked on June 7, 2011, by the aforementioned fanpage. It is unknown if all the lyrics leaked or if it was only a portion."KILL MY BOYFRIEND lyrics RT @RobinKills: http://twitpic.com/58eco9" June 7, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @NataliaKillsIT on Twitter. On June 9, 2011, an audio of Teddy singing a snippet of the song to fans leaked.Post about Kill My Boyfriend live snippets. June 9, 2011. Fuck Yeah Natalia Kills on Tumblr."Kill My Boyfriend" June 9, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via Owl13 on SoundCloud.
Teddy teased "I'll do the time, you're my sweetest crime..."- KILL MY BOYFRIEND" on July 21, 2011."RT @NataliaKills: "I'll do the time, you're my sweetest crime..."- KILL MY BOYFRIEND" July 21, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @NataliaKillsIT on Twitter. After the song was officially announced, she continued teasing the song."Hehe can't wait RT @NataliaKills: I'm just excited for my latest song KILL MY BOYFRIEND to be available in 16 days... its truly the most romantic song i've ever written..." July 30, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @smeggingnuts on Twitter."RT @NataliaKills: I'M ROLLING THE DICE, GOT THE WIND IN MY HAIR... I'M GONA KILL MY BOYFRIEND, YEAH... 'CAUSE HE'S ONLY NICE WHEN THERE'S SOMEBODY THERE..." July 30, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @DeniSetiawanMP on Twitter."RT @NataliaKills: I'M GONA KILL MY BOYFRIEND." July 30, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @AndiSchillinger on Twitter."@ChineyPhoenix shud ans this RT @NataliaKills: I'm so excited for you to hear KILL MY BOYFRIEND that I wana know, How would you kill yours?" August 8, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @ddwisdom on Twitter. 
The producers of the track were confirmed on August 12, 2011, and Teddy posted the official lyrics."Natalia, Julien, Junior Caldera & Tony Ugval RT @ross_mil: @NataliaKills @cherrytreerec who produced kill my boyfriend? #possiblegrammyalert" August 12, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @CherrytreeRec on Twitter."RT @NataliaKills KILL MY BOYFRIEND official lyrics... glad you like it Lovers... #Killmyboyfriend https://twitpic.com/652m1s August 12, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @CherrytreeRec on Twitter. The full song leaked the following day."Hmm, Kill My Boyfriend leaked in full. Idk it sounds different." August 12, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @SONNYVDP on Twitter.Post about the leak August 13, 2011. Fuck Yeah Natalia Kills on Tumblr.
Rumors of the song being confirmed as the first single were reported as early as August 30, 2011. It is unknown if there was any validity to these statements or if it was simply speculation."Confirmado!! el próximo single de Natalia Kills será Kill My Boyfriend!" August 30, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2021 via @NataliaKillsSP on Twitter."We can exclusively confirm that "KILL MY BOYFRIEND" is the next single from "Perfectionist"." September 16, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2021 via @teddysdotnet on Twitter.
An early version of the music video leaked on December 4, 2011."The Kill My Boyfriend video leaked. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ-92KUveAw" December 4, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2021 via Kamillentee on Pop Justice. Teddy claimed the following day that this was not the music video."imagina quando tiver finalizado.. <3 RT @NataliaKills: #fb So sorry for everyone who thought that was the video! Its not.." December 5, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2021 via @caainan on Twitter.
==Announcement and Release==
===Album===
On July 26, 2011, Cherrytree Records confirmed that "Kill My Boyfriend" would be featured on the United States/Canada release of Perfectionist and said that it would be available on August 16. This is the first known time that any details about this song were officially announced."16 songs plus the never-released "Kill My Boyfriend" on @NataliaKills "Perfectionist" Deluxe Digital Version - out Aug. 16th in the US & Can" July 26, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @CherrytreeRec on Twitter.
On August 5, 2011, Cherrytree Records confirmed via Twitter that a preview of the song would soon be available on Amazon."Won't be long now :-) Aug 16 RT @StacyKills: wish there were clips of natalia's US perfectionist on amazon so i could hear kill my boyfriend" August 5, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @CherrytreeRec on Twitter. A 30 second preview of the song was made available on Amazon the following day.Post about 30 second Amazon preview August 6, 2011. Fuck Yeah Natalia Kills on Tumblr. A longer preview was made available on Cherrytree's website on August 12, 2011."Listen to a preview of @NataliaKills new song "Kill My Boyfriend" from her "Perfectionist" album on http://CherrytreeRecords.com now" August 12, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @CherrytreeRec on Twitter."Kill My Boyfriend (New Preview) http://soundcloud.com/cherrytreerecords/natalia-kills-kill-my/s-vUDLJ#new-timed-comment-at-70315" August 12, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2021 via @NataliaKillsSP on Twitter.
The song was officially released on August 16, 2011.
===Single===
"Kill My Boyfriend" was officially announced to be the next single from Perfectionist on September 19, 2011. Insider reports of this were made as early as August."@JUDAaAaAaAaAaAS Yes, next video will be Kill My Boyfriend!" September 9, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2021 via xjeesusx on Tumblr.
In November, it was revealed that the cover art and music video for the song would be coming soon."New single cover and video for @NataliaKills "Kill My Boyfriend" coming soon!" November 18, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2021 via @CherrytreeRec on Twitter."Kill My Boyfriend single cover soon come ... and new video too @NataliaKills" November 21, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2021 via @CherrytreeRec on Twitter. The cover art for the single was revealed on Kills' official website on November 22, 2011.Kill My Boyfriend Cover Art Reveal November 22, 2011. Natalia Kills official website.
The song was officially released as a single on January 10, 2012, alongside the music video.
==Videos==
===Background===
Teddy announced that "Kill My Boyfriend" would be her next song to receive a music video on September 9, 2011.
In mid-November, Cherrytree tweeted that the music video would be released soon.
On January 7, 2012, Teddy announced via Twitter that the music video would be released that upcoming Tuesday."EXCITED! RT @NataliaKills: KILL MY BOYFRIEND video out TUESDAY!! Let the countdown begin..." January 7, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2021 via @ItsTonyHun on Twitter. The video premiered on January 10, 2012.
==Writing and Development==
"Kill My Boyfriend" was written with Junior Caldera and Julien Carret sometime before June 6, 2011, and likely sometime after the initial release of Perfectionist in April. 
===Meaning===
In an interview with MF Magazine, Teddy stated:"Its about my first boyfriend. Again. My songs are all extracts from my personal memoirs and conversations between friends... There’s been so many times when I’ve sat with my girls and said “I could kill him! I seriously wanna kill him right now…”
She also told The Prophet Blog:"The story is that my lovely high school sweetheart comes back to town; we’d broken up years ago when he went off to college. When he comes back I’m actually engaged to someone else who’s a bit of a dick, but his family are nice and I don’t want to go through the drama of breaking up with him and being called a slut for running off with someone else on my wedding night, so I decide the best way to get out of it is just to kill him. It’s such a happy song cause I’m back in love with my old boyfriend… Super deranged, but very happy."LISTEN TO NATALIA KILLS AMAZING NEW SONG 'KILL MY BOYFRIEND'" August 14, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2021 via The Prophet Blog.
==Official Versions==
==Credits==
===Musicians===
*Teddy Sinclair - Vocals
===Technical===
*Produced by: Junior Caldera, Julien Carret, Natalia Kills, Tony Ugval
*Written by: Natalia Kills, Junior Caldera Julien Carret
*Published by: The Kills Effect/ Songs Of Universal (BMI)/Universal Music Publishing
*Recorded by: Tony Ugval, Junior Caldera Julien Carret
*Mixed by: Robert Orton
*Mixed at: Metropolis
*Mastered by: Gene Grimaldi
*Mastered at: Oasis Mastering Studio
*Executively produced by: will.i.am, Martin Kierszenbaum
==References==
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Category:Natalia Kills
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Category:Singles
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Category:2012
Category:Released Songs