"Cupid's Chokehold" is a single performed by Gym Class Heroes, featuring Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy. It has reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Pop 100 Airplay. The song has been featured on Discover and Download and Total Request Live. It was first released in 2004 on The Papercut Chronicles, and re-recorded for their album As Cruel as School Children (which was re-released on November 4, 2006 with "Cupid's Chokehold" as an additional track). There are two music videos for this song, one for each version. The second version includes female backing vocals which are not included in version one. The second version of the video does contain the backing vocals of the first video. However, the female voice is integrated into the chorus behind Patrick Stump's vocals. Image File history File links Cupid's_Chokehold. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... 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Several versions were produced. The most common one features slow tempo and female backing vocals while the other one has a quicker tempo and Patrick Stump does every backing vocal.

The song takes its music, chorus and famous spoken "ba da da da" line from Supertramp's song "Breakfast in America." Supertramp is a British progressive rock band that had a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and 1980s. ... Breakfast in America is the title track off of Supertramps 1979 album Breakfast in America. ...

Charts

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Music videos

The Papercut Chronicles version

The original music video.

The first version of the "Cupid's Chokehold" video (directed by Andrew Paul Bowser) for the album The Papercut Chronicles features MC Travis McCoy working at a toy factory. While working, he stumbles upon a "prototype toy" which turns out to be a life-size doll. The doll acts as McCoy's girlfriend in the video and fulfills his every wish. Image File history File links Cupid's_Chokehold. ... Image File history File links Cupid's_Chokehold. ... A Master of Ceremonies or MC (sometimes spelled emcee), sometimes called a compere or an MJ for microphone jockey, is the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance. ... Travis McCoy (born August 5, 1981) (also known as Schleprok and Travie) is the lead vocalist of the alternative hip-hop group Gym Class Heroes. ...

However, she eventually becomes tired of being exploited and expresses this in a humorous scene where the two are playing Scrabble (she spells out the words 'krush', 'kill', and 'destroy'). The doll then begins to malfunction, and McCoy has no choice but to destroy her. He pushes her off a bridge, and she appears to be dead. At the end of the video, she is awakened by Patrick Stump, who also appears to be a robot. The two fall in love and walk down the road together. The verb to scrabble also means to scratch, scramble or scrape about: see Wiktionary:scrabble. ... Patrick Stump, born Patrick Martin Stumph on April 27, 1984 in Glenview, Illinois, is an American musician, composer and producer. ...

As Cruel as School Children version

The second version of the "Cupid's Chokehold" video (directed by Alan Ferguson) for the album As Cruel as School Children is a more literal interpretation of the lyrics of the song, and is more widely recognized, being that music networks such as MTV and VH1 play this version instead of the original. The video begins with a dancing Cupid, who shoots McCoy with a love arrow as he passes a girl. The two are madly in love at first, but as the video moves forward, the two begin fighting, apparently over taxes and rent, and their relationship meets its end when McCoy's girlfriend walks in on him and his friends gambling. Cupid tries a second time to get McCoy into a relationship. This time, McCoy's girlfriend is more romantically involved with McCoy (the two make out excessively in the video), but she becomes increasingly angry when he invites his friends to a party her parents are hosting. The relationship ends when McCoy comes home to find his girlfriend on top of another man in a ghetto Batman suit in a compromising position. He proceeds to beat up the guy, who does not know who he is (he is shown mouthing the words, "Who's he?") and walks out. McCoy's final relationship is with one of his fans in the audience at one of the band's performances. Initially, she went up to him when they were at a bar. This time the relationship works out, and Cupid does not have to shoot McCoy with an arrow even though he attempts to at first. However, Cupid himself gets shot with an arrow by a female Cupid, and the video closes with the two of them dancing together (Cupid also dances several times before the ending). MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network based in New York City. ... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994) is an American cable television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently part of the MTV Networks division... It has been suggested that Cupid (holiday character) be merged into this article or section. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ...

In this version of the music video, when McCoy and his friends are interrupting his girlfriend's party, McCoy raps a small part of "Wejusfreestylin Pt. 2" from The Papercut Chronicles. A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... The Papercut Chronicles is the second album by Gym Class Heroes released by Fueled by Ramen/Decaydance. ...

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