The track was released in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2009 as the third single from the band's debut studio album, Man Alive (2010).

[1] The song began as what Jonathan Higgs has described as "an old demo I made in a sort of R&B pastiche style".

In a self-released video on the band's YouTube channel, Higgs describes the song's exploration of "two different types of America", referring to the stark contrast between the "superficial sitcom world" and "killing people in foreign lands".

[3] The band filmed the video for the original 2009 version inside Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker in Cheshire.

[4] For the chart week dated 4 September 2010, "My Kz, Ur Bf" debuted as number 121 on the UK Singles Chart—marking the band's second appearance on the chart; following "Schoolin'" (number 152, 2010).