“Cupid's Chokehold” by Gym Class Heroes

"Cupid's Chokehold" first turned up on The Papercut Chronicles, and Gym Class Heroes built it on borrowed bones: the music and chorus lean hard on Supertramp's "Breakfast in America", a Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies song, which puts the Supertramp writers in the credits beside Travie McCoy. Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy lends his voice, and Fueled by Ramen and DCD2 put it out.

The band later re-recorded it for As Cruel as School Children, and each version got its own video. The most common take is slow, with female backing vocals; another is quicker, with Stump and Rand Bellavia of Ookla the Mok on backing vocals. It reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100, topped the Mainstream Top 40, hit number three in the UK and Canada, and had sold 1,936,000 digital downloads by September 2011.

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