Take an upended plastic beaker, add a few finger taps on the top, a slight scrape on a kitchen table and some handclaps, and you have a YouTube phenomenon that is currently uniting great swathes of the world.
Take an upended plastic beaker, add a few finger taps on the top, a slight scrape on a kitchen table and some handclaps, and you have a YouTube phenomenon that is currently uniting great swathes of the world.
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Roger Tagholm
The "cup song", as everyone calls it, is featured in the film Pitch Perfect. It is so-called because a plastic cup is used to accompany Anna Kendrick's acappella cover of You're Gonna Miss Me by Lulu And The Lampshades. Kendrick is auditioning for a place in the college singing group. When she shyly leans forward to take a beaker from the judges' table and then tips the pens and pencils out, they're puzzled. She sits at the edge of the stage, places the cup upside down in front of her and pauses. Then she claps her hands twice, taps the top of the cup three times and begins to sing, all the while maintaining a clever tap and clap and slide pattern with the cup beneath her voice.
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the world falls for a cup
Take an upended plastic beaker, add a few finger taps on the top, a slight scrape on a kitchen table and some handclaps, and you have a YouTube phenomenon that is currently uniting great swathes of the world.
The "cup song", as everyone calls it, is featured in the film Pitch Perfect. It is so-called because a plastic cup is used to accompany Anna Kendrick's acappella cover of You're Gonna Miss Me by Lulu And The Lampshades. Kendrick is auditioning for a place in the college singing group. When she shyly leans forward to take a beaker from the judges' table and then tips the pens and pencils out, they're puzzled. She sits at the edge of the stage, places the cup upside down in front of her and pauses. Then she claps her hands twice, taps the top of the cup three times and begins to sing, all the while maintaining a clever tap and clap and slide pattern with the cup beneath her voice.
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