Cupid's Chokehold
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| "Cupid's Chokehold" | ||
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| Single by Gym Class Heroes featuring Patrick Stump | ||
| from the album The Papercut Chronicles and As Cruel as School Children | ||
| Released | March 2005 (Version 1) December 2006 (Version 2) | |
| Genre | Rock, Hip-Hop | |
| Length | 3:58 | |
| Label | Decaydance, Fueled By Ramen | |
| Writer(s) | Davies, Rick/Roger Hodgeson | |
| Chart positions | ||
| Gym Class Heroes singles chronology | ||
| "The Queen & I" (2006) |
Cupid's Chokehold (2006) |
"Clothes Off!!" (2007) |
Cupid's Chokehold is a single by Gym Class Heroes, featuring Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy. It is currently at its peak position of #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. 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 song takes its chorus from Supertramp's song "Breakfast in America". The first version includes female backing vocals which are not included in version 2.
The Second Version of the video does contain the backing vocals of the First video. However, the female voice is intergrated into the chorus behind Patrick Stump's Vocals.
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[edit] Charts
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard Hot 100 | 4 |
| US Billboard Pop 100 | 5 |
| US Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 2 |
| US Billboard Hot Ringtones | 4 |
| US Billboard Adult Top 40 | 38 |
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart[1] | 20 |
| Dutch Top 40 | 23 |
| Polish Singles Chart[2] | 47 |
| United World Chart | 21 |
[edit] Music Videos
[edit] Version 1
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 robotic doll. The doll acts as Travis's girlfriend in the video and fulfills his every wish.
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 crush, kill, and destroy). The doll then begins to malfunction, and Travis has no choice but to destroy her. He pushes her off a bridge, and she appears to be dead. However 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.
[edit] Version 2
The second version of the Cupid's Chokehold video 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 Travis 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 Travis's girlfriend walks in on him and his friends gambling. Cupid tries a second time to get Travis into a relationship. This time, Travis's girlfriend is more romantically involved with Travis (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 Travis comes home to find his girlfriend on top of another man 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 that?") and walks out. Travis'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 Travis 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.
