
The video opens with Anna Kendrick in a restaurant’s kitchen cutting dough into biscuits with a plastic cup while looking up longingly at some postcards of far-away places, such as Scotland and Paris, stuck to the refrigerator. It was released on Apon Anna Kendrick’s Vevo channel. The song’s music video was directed by Pitch Perfect’s director Jason Moore. It originally made it to number 48 in January 2013. On May 4, 2013, “Cups” returned to the top 50 of the ARIA Charts at a new peak of number 44, achieved in part due to the DVD of Pitch Perfect being released in Australia on April 13, 2013. Kendrick has stated that she learned the song and its cup percussion from watching and doing it many times on Reddit prior to being cast in Pitch Perfect, and it was therefore written into the film.
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Prior to the single’s release, covers of the song as well as tutorials on how to do the song (using cups) went viral. The single version was extended by an additional minute. Unlike the soundtrack version, the single version of the song was re-produced with additional instrumentation (notably the banjo) by American Music Award-winning music producer Ali Dee Theodore, Jordan Yaeger and Harvey Mason, Jr. In the film it is performed by the main character, Beca Mitchell (Anna Kendrick) during an audition for a college a cappella group. Though the song had been popular online for years, mainstream success came when it was incorporated into the film Pitch Perfect in 2012. Anna Burden made her own version on YouTube of the Lulu and the Lamspshades video that was discovered by Reddit, and where Anna Kendrick learned the routine, prompting dozens of other YouTube users to submit cover versions of the song using the Cup Clap technique. Lulu and the Lampshades were the first to perform the song using the cup game for percussion.

That version also became the official theme song of the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament. The song became popular after it was performed by Anna Kendrick in the 2012 film Pitch Perfect. Carter andLuisa Gerstein of Lulu and the Lampshades. Composition of the song is credited to A. It was first performed this way in a YouTube video by Luisa Gerstein and Heloise Tunstall-Behrens as Lulu and The Lampshades in2009 (under the title “You’re Gonna Miss Me“). “Cups” is a version of the 1931 Carter Family song “When I’m Gone“, usually performed a cappella with a cup used to provide percussion, as in the cup game.

“You’re gonna miss me by my talk, oh, You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone“, don’t get it twisted, jam this beautiful song from Anna Kendrick titled “Cups – When I’m Gone“.
