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Cups (song)
2013 single by Anna Kendrick
Cups (song)
"Cups" (alternatively titled "Cups (When I'm Gone)" or "Cups (Pitch Perfect's 'When I'm Gone')") is a song by the American actress and singer Anna Kendrick performed in the 2012 musical comedy film Pitch Perfect. It was later released as part of the Pitch Perfect soundtrack. The song is based on the 1931 folk song "When I'm Gone" by the Carter Family. In the late 2000s, British musicians Heloise Tunstall-Behrens and Luisa Gerstein, performing as Lulu and the Lampshades, reworked "When I'm Gone" and incorporated it into a cup-tapping routine. In Pitch Perfect, Kendrick's performance features a children's clapping game known as the cup game and uses coordinated tapping, clapping, and cup-passing as percussion. Republic Records released a remix titled "Cups (Pitch Perfect's 'When I'm Gone')" as a single on March 26, 2013. It was accompanied by a music video directed by Jason Moore on April 12, 2013; in the video, Kendrick appears as a waitress in a diner imagining customers and staff around...
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