The "Pitch Perfect" craze isn’t over yet. Not only did much of the cast reunite to perform at Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards, but star Anna Kendrick has just released a new beautifully shot clip for her surprise hit single "Cups." The origins of this song lie in the 1937 Appalachian Folk recording "Miss Me When I'm Gone" by J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers. The new track from the "Pitch Perfect" soundtrack features the voice of Kendrick accompanied only by a plastic cup, which she uses as improvised percussion.
The song serves as her character Beca's brief audition for the Barden Bellas, an all-female a cappella group from Barden University. The song is just one minute seventeen seconds long, but isn't the shortest ever to grace the Billboard Hot 100. Back to February, the Universal Music remixed Kendrick's tumbler-tapping tune for pop radio, giving it a lush, acoustic sound to fill out her sweet, folky vocal. Perhaps the remixed tune and new music video, directed by "Pitch Perfect" helmer Jason Moore, will help the song reach a new peak.
Fans have enjoyed Kendrick's voice and spirited performance of the song with a little cup choreography that it was turned into a full fledged song with some instrumentals this time, and now we got a music video to go along with it. So get ready for more hand-clapping and more flipping! The 27-year-old actress and singer hinted a few weeks ago on Instagram that it was coming. But there's no stage and there are no members of the "Barton Bellas" to hint that "Pitch Perfect"'s viral hit was becoming legit this week. Kendrick gave fair warning. In her new song "Cups" and the accompanying music video, Kendrick's chorus includes "you're gonna miss me when I'm gone."
The video takes place in a restaurant kitchen where Kendrick can be seen cleaning her hands of flour in front of a fan and giving way to a flip cup scene of epic proportions - a whole new meaning to flip cup. As is the musical trend of late, there's some a capella cup stomping and clapping and some crisp vocals on Kendrick's end. The "Pitch Perfect" star plays a battered (literally!) cook at a small diner, where she spends her days rolling out biscuits and dreaming of a trip to somewhere tropical and sunny. As she skips through the restaurant, the video morphs into an all out extravaganza of rhythmic and progressively more intricate cup jams, which are choreographed impressively.
The song serves as her character Beca's brief audition for the Barden Bellas, an all-female a cappella group from Barden University. The song is just one minute seventeen seconds long, but isn't the shortest ever to grace the Billboard Hot 100. Back to February, the Universal Music remixed Kendrick's tumbler-tapping tune for pop radio, giving it a lush, acoustic sound to fill out her sweet, folky vocal. Perhaps the remixed tune and new music video, directed by "Pitch Perfect" helmer Jason Moore, will help the song reach a new peak.
Fans have enjoyed Kendrick's voice and spirited performance of the song with a little cup choreography that it was turned into a full fledged song with some instrumentals this time, and now we got a music video to go along with it. So get ready for more hand-clapping and more flipping! The 27-year-old actress and singer hinted a few weeks ago on Instagram that it was coming. But there's no stage and there are no members of the "Barton Bellas" to hint that "Pitch Perfect"'s viral hit was becoming legit this week. Kendrick gave fair warning. In her new song "Cups" and the accompanying music video, Kendrick's chorus includes "you're gonna miss me when I'm gone."
The video takes place in a restaurant kitchen where Kendrick can be seen cleaning her hands of flour in front of a fan and giving way to a flip cup scene of epic proportions - a whole new meaning to flip cup. As is the musical trend of late, there's some a capella cup stomping and clapping and some crisp vocals on Kendrick's end. The "Pitch Perfect" star plays a battered (literally!) cook at a small diner, where she spends her days rolling out biscuits and dreaming of a trip to somewhere tropical and sunny. As she skips through the restaurant, the video morphs into an all out extravaganza of rhythmic and progressively more intricate cup jams, which are choreographed impressively.
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