Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast in America - Radio Mix

This is a reworking of a 1979 Supertramp song called "Breakfast In America." In the original song the "ba-ba-da-da" appears at the end. "Breakfast In America" was also sung as a pop song instead of the rap style used by Gym Class Heroes. The group's drummer Matt McGinley told Songfacts in a 2011 interview: "That song was kind of an accident that it even happened. We wrote it in our old bass player's (Eric Roberts) bedroom one afternoon, and it was really unintentional. We were just going to rehearse for our show. We didn't sit down and say, 'Okay, let's write a song.' That song just sort of happened. Our friend Sie One had the Supertramp Breakfast in America record. And so he put that on and he would play that line, 'Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I got.' Then drop it, and we would try to keep playing. So we wrote our own verses and our own bridge and stuff, and every time the chorus would come around we would just drop that as the chorus. So that song happened really, really quickly. And then we went and recorded it for under $300 in probably three or four hours. And we've been writing our latest album for two years."

When Songfacts spoke with Supertramp founder Roger Hodgson in 2012, we asked him how he felt about his song being reinterpreted by Gym Class Heroes. Roger's reply: "Initially I had words with them, because they didn't ask me. But that was a technical thing. Funny enough, normally I don't like my compositions being tampered with, but there was something just very infectious about what they did, and I actually enjoyed what they wrote juxtaposed against what I wrote."

Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy sings on this track. Gym Class Heroes were signed to Decaydance Records, run by Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy, so there was lots of musical intermingling with the groups. Stump ended up producing the As Cruel As School Children album.