Cups (song)

"Cups (Pitch Perfect's 'When I'm Gone')" is a song performed by American actress and singer Anna Kendrick that appeared in the 2012 film Pitch Perfect and its extended play More from Pitch Perfect. The song is based on the 1931 folk song "When I'm Gone," written by A. P. Carter, and was later adapted with a cup-tapping routine by British musicians Heloise Tunstall-Behrens and Luisa Gerstein, performing as Lulu and the Lampshades.

Republic Records released a remix titled "Pitch Perfect's When I'm Gone" as a single on March 26, 2013. Kendrick's performance uses the children's clapping game known as the cup game for its percussion. It was accompanied by a music video directed by Jason Moore, released on April 12, 2013, in which she appears as a waitress imagining those around her performing the track. The song peaked at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100, giving Kendrick her first top-10 single in the United States, and also reached the top 30 in Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.