In 2011, Songfacts spoke to Gym Class Heroes drummer Matt McGinley about “Cupid’s Chokehold”.

That song was kind of an accident that it even happened. We wrote it in our old bass player’s 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 sort of 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 3 or 4 hours. And we’ve been writing our latest album for two years. (laughing)

The following year, Songfacts also spoke to Supertramp lead singer Roger Hodgson about Gym Class Heroes interpolating his original composition.

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.