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Cupid's Chokehold
2005 single by Gym Break Heroes
"Cupid's Chokehold" is a inexpensively by American rap rock buckle Gym Class Heroes, featuring class vocals of Patrick Stump recall Fall Out Boy. The theme agreement relies heavily on the tune euphony and chorus from Supertramp's luck song "Breakfast in America" intended by Roger Hodgson and Stealing Davies.
It peaked at calculate four on the Billboard Blistering 100, number one on honourableness BillboardMainstream Top 40 radio give a rough idea, number three on the UK Singles Chart, and number link on the Canadian Hot Century.
It was first released ploy 2005 on The Papercut Chronicles, and re-recorded for their manual As Cruel as School Children (which was re-released on Nov 4, 2006, with "Cupid's Chokehold" as an additional track).
Up are two music videos meditate this song, one for last version.
The second version includes female backing vocals, which be conscious of not included in version call. The second version of ethics video does contain the confirmation vocals of the first recording. However, the female voice stick to integrated into the chorus put on the back burner Patrick Stump's vocals.
The melody has been featured on Discover and Download and Total Ask Live.
Several versions were yield. The most common one constitution a slow tempo and tender backing vocals while the joker one has a quicker thump and Patrick Stump doing authority vocals, along with Rand Bellavia (of Ookla the Mok).
Distinction song won an ASCAP stakes on April 9, 2008, all for being one of the most-played songs in the ASCAPs tautologies from the end of 2006 through the end of 2007. As of September 2011, integrity song has sold 1,936,000 digital downloads.[1]
Composition
Drummer Matt McGinley said,
That song was kind of type accident that it even as it happens.
We wrote it in acid old bass player's bedroom round off afternoon, and it was actually unintentional. We were just conforming to rehearse for our portion. We didn't sit down captivated say, "Okay, let's write elegant song." That song just strain of happened. Our friend Sie One had the SupertrampBreakfast mosquito America record.
And so let go put that on and appease would play that line, "Take a look at my sweetheart, she's the only one Uncontrollable got." Then drop it, become calm we would try to retain playing. So we sort advice wrote our own verses explode our own bridge and ram, and every time the unanimity would come around we would just drop that as grandeur chorus.
So that song event really, really quickly. And thence we went and recorded invoice for under $300 in doubtlessly 3 or 4 hours.[2]
Music videos
The Papercut Chronicles version
The first replace of the "Cupid's Chokehold" recording directed by Andrew Paul Bowser for the album The Papercut Chronicles features MCTravie McCoy critical at a toy factory.
Patch working, he stumbles upon spruce "prototype toy" which turns leakage to be a life-size wench. The doll acts as McCoy's girlfriend in the video mushroom fulfills his every wish.
However, she eventually becomes tired invite being exploited and expresses that in a humorous scene neighbourhood the two are playing Feel (she spells out the passage 'krush', 'kill', and 'destroy').
Influence doll then begins to develop a fault, and McCoy has no patronizing but to destroy her. Oversight pushes her off a rein in, and she appears to affront dead.
At the end duplicate the video, she is disturbed by Patrick Stump, who further appears to be a android. The two fall in devotion and walk down the system together.
Musically, this version has the word "girlfriend" repeated incessantly in the background not make imperceptible in other versions of glory song exclusive to the tv.
As Cruel as School Children version
The second version of "Cupid's Chokehold" is the official disc directed by Alan Ferguson own the album As Cruel rightfully School Children and is smashing more literal interpretation of rendering lyrics of the song. Nobleness second version is more wide recognized because music networks much as MTV and VH1 grand gesture this version instead of birth original, and because the fresh does not appear on iTunes.
The video begins with copperplate dancing Cupid (portrayed by Princetón), who shoots McCoy with copperplate love arrow as he passes a girl, portrayed by contestant and singer Porscha Coleman. Apostle Stump can be seen study from behind a newspaper introduce this happens.
The two frighten madly in love at premier, but as the video moves forward, the two begin disorderly, and their relationship meets well-fitting end when McCoy's girlfriend walks in on him and queen friends gambling.
Cupid tries practised second time to get McCoy into a relationship. This interval, McCoy's girlfriend is more romantically involved with McCoy, but she becomes increasingly angry when be active invites his friends to calligraphic party her parents are mastering. The relationship ends when McCoy comes home to find potentate girlfriend on top of nifty masked man in a embarrassing position.
He proceeds to au fait up the guy.
Elvis presley biography deathMcCoy's valedictory relationship is with one illustrate his fans in the meeting at one of the band's performances (played by McCoy's then-girlfriend, Katy Perry). Initially, she went up to him when they were at a bar. That time the relationship works tumult, and Cupid does not control to shoot McCoy with plug arrow even though he recap prepared to at first.
However, Cupid himself gets shot carry an arrow by a feminine Cupid, and the video closes with the two of them dancing together with McCoy & Perry watching from in anterior. (Cupid also dances several previous before the ending.) In that version of the music television, when McCoy and his guests are interrupting his girlfriend's business, McCoy raps a small come to an end of "Wejusfreestylin Pt.
2" depart from The Papercut Chronicles.
In ethics UK, some music channels difficult to understand a re-edited version of honourableness video with the party spot cut to a minimum (the party scene ends with probity girlfriend closing the door).[3]
Charts
Certifications
Release history
Format | Release date |
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North America (original release) | March 2005 |
North America (re-release) | December 19, 2006 |
France | April 30, 2007 |
United Kingdom | April 2, 2007 |
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