Cupid

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## Cupid

* Extended
* Micropop

### Released

* February 14th, 2019 (original)
* June 29th, 2019 (micropop)
* February 7th, 2020 (extended)

### Length

* 0:36 (original)
* 3:40 (extended)

### Producer

Jack Stauber

**Cupid** is a short song uploaded by Jack Stauber on February 14th, 2019, along with a music video. It would later be extended into a full song on June 1st, 2019 as a Patreon exclusive. Almost a month after so, the original version was released on the Micropop album as the 84th track with other songs and archives on June 29th, 2019. The extended version was then later released along with extended versions of Dinner is Not Over, There's Something Happening, and Keyman on February 7th, 2020, under Jack Stauber's Micropop.

Cupid tells the story of someone who develops an unhealthy attraction towards someone that is out of their reach and desperately wants these feelings to end. However, after they continue, the singer eventually ends their own life.

## Lyrics

The **bolded** lyrics were included in the original short.

[Intro]

(Wah, wah, wah, wah)

(Wah, wah, wah, wah)

(Wah, wah, wah, wah)

(Wah, wah)

[Verse 1]

**Oh, circumcise my love for you (Wah, wah, wah, wah)**

**It's far too vapid and aimless (Wah, wah, wah, wah)**

**I wanna be painless (Wah, wah, wah, wah)**

**Love soldier, I want closure (Wah, wah)**

**And a dollar for the bus back home**

[Verse 2]

Oh, euthanize my heartbeat (Wah, wah, wah, wah)

As I set more in the concrete (Wah, wah, wah, wah)

The deified love meat (Wah, wah, wah, wah)

Madonna, oh, rare fauna (Wah, wah)

Pack your horror, ride the bus alone

[Bridge]

How can, Cupid

How could you be so cruel?

How can, Cupid

How could you be so-?

[Verse 3]

Oh, circumcise my love for you (Wah, wah, wah, wah)

It's far too vapid and aimless (Wah, wah, wah, wah)

I wanna be painless (Wah, wah, wah, wah)

Love soldier, I want closure (Wah, wah)

And a dollar for the bus back home
## Meaning

Cupid is about an aimless crush and attraction that the singer has to someone vapid and meaningless to them in a love at first sight scenario. The singer is aware of how "vapid and aimless" the attraction is, yet is still blindly drawn to it. Despite that, they want to lose this attraction, asking for the "love soldier" to give them closure, as well as wanting to euthanize their heartbeat. They also then curse out Cupid asking why they were "so cruel" in being the cause for the attraction. The gunshot at the end of the song eventually represents the singer ending their own life, either because they were rejected, or they couldn't take having the attraction anymore. Although excluded in the extended version, after the song ends in the music video, dialogue meant to sound like an investigation show is heard saying they are going to find if they're "any skeletons in the closet". This is an idiom used to represent an embarrassing secret being hidden from the public. The embarrassing secret is the singer's attraction towards the person.

There are also some extra theories brought up with this meaning. Some theories about the song suggest that the "wahs" sung in the background are actually meant to symbolize somebody crying. In the music video, the ear monster seems to represent a grotesque portrayal of a Cupid character in their head playing around with the singer's "deified love meat". The monster being shot in the eye at the end of the music video also seems to represent the singer shooting out their Cupid to end their sufferings. Also, a theory behind the music video is that Cupid nearly rhymes with Q-Tip, which is why it involves ears and the insides of it.

## Notes

Cupid has since become one of Jack's most famous songs, especially after the Turkey EP successfully generated on YouTube in August 2022. The song is known for its very dark story and graphic tone, with its lower instrumentals, the background vocals, and most famously the very deep voice Jack uses the sing to song, either legitimate or pitched down. It's also very notable for its dark lyrics, using intense and unsettling terms and metaphors. The song is also considered one of his more sadder and emotional songs for its story and its romantic sound in the extended version.

The music video is also very notable for being one of Jack's scariest projects, as well as being one of his more violent and graphic ones. The ear monster, although since becoming popular within the community, is infamous for its disturbing appearance, with its raggedy and disjointed look, notably always facing towards the viewer. The gunshot is commonly considered the scariest, yet also most famous part of the video for being unexpected and having detailed gore, which is not common with Jack's art style. Although the video is still popular and well received for these factors.

## 2019 Patreon Leak

The extended version has also had an infamous and very rough history prior to its public release, as it is also roughly remembered by long-time fans for being leaked from Patreon onto the internet by multiple users, most notably a user called Art Van Loser. They were also responsible for leaking the alternative version from Patreon too. This was the first major situation of Patreon content being leaked onto the internet and is often considered the true cause for the bad trend in leaking Jack's Patreon exclusives onto the internet, or at least what made the trend of doing so more popular. Eventually, after the official release of the extended version, Jack would copyright the leak and would force Art Van Loser to private the alternative version due to no plans of a public release for it. This arguably remains as the most infamous case of a Patreon leak for Jack.

## Trivia

* Cupid has become the most popular song featured on the Turkey EP.
* The extended version of Cupid was written while Jack was recovering from a bad stunt injury he had gotten into in April 2019, which broke his collarbone and right arm.
	+ When Jack uploaded the extended version onto Patreon, he confirmed that he had healed and recovered from said stunt injury.
* Jack posted a very deteriorated and grainy looking shot of Cupid on his Tumblr captioned "*happy valentine's day"* on the same day the video was uploaded. Jack also separately posted the music video on Tumblr as well. The music video post and the deteriorated shot would eventually be the last things Jack ever posted onto his Tumblr before the account mysteriously went inactive, presumed to now be abandoned.
* When looking closely at the ear monster, you can slightly see that it has very short hair, though it could also likely be a faint shadow.
* Cupid, Al Dente, Tea Errors, and Out the Ox are the only extended songs where the title isn't sung in the original version but is later sung in the extended version.
* The extended version Cupid, along with the other songs on the EP were Jack's first public songs of 2020, unless you count video man.
* As stated above, an alternative version of Cupid was uploaded on Patreon on February 16th, 2019. Jack made this because he thought that the original song was too creepy and "had too much meat", and it was an attempt to clean up the song a bit and make it sound less graphic.
* It's currently unknown if Jack had sung the song with a deeper tone of voice, or if Jack had sung the song (excluding the bridge) in a higher pitch with his normal voice and pitched it down. The latter is supported by the fact that the alternative version of the song is sung in a higher pitch than the original version.
* On the original Patreon upload of the extended version of Cupid, the gunshot was completely removed from the ending. Though it was eventually brought back for the song's ending when it was released to the public, mainly to connect with the song's meaning, as well as fan demand from his patrons.
* In the original song, a lingering radio static can be heard with many distorted voices and dialogue being heard. When messing with the audio and inverting it, the dialogue and voices are made audible and easier to hear and decipher. The extended version removes the original song's static and dialogue and instead replaces it with a new and updated version of it with different dialogue, and like the original version, can be heard when inverting the audio for the extended version.
	+ Some of the static sound effects used in the background of Cupid seem to later be reused in the will cartoon.
	+ Many fans have pointed out that Angel, a song on the 2019 Micropop album, has a very similar sound and tone to Cupid, with a similar creepy tone and notably the static sound heard in the background.
* The extended version, along with the extended version of Keyman, was first available on Patreon before the release of Deploy / Those Eggs Aren't Dippy / Out the Ox.
	+ The extended version of Cupid was posted onto Patreon before all the three songs on the hand EP were even released on Patreon.
	+ As stated above, the extended version of Cupid was posted onto Patreon before the original song was released on Micropop.
* Cupid is the only song on the EP that had its original song released on Micropop.
* The extended version of Cupid is the longest an extended song has been left stocked on Patreon before releasing to the public, having over an 8 month time period for it to release. It was most likely held back just so it can be released around Valentine's Day as it did, releasing a week before said holiday.
* Cupid, along with the extended version of Keyman, were the latest in a month an extended song release, being uploaded a day late from the end of a month.
* This, along with the other extended songs on the Turkey EP were infamous for not being officially generated onto YouTube until August 2022, two years and six months after the EP's initial release, causing fans to have to only listen to the songs through unofficial or fan-made uploads on YouTube.

## Gallery

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* Screenshots

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The ear monster's short and barely visible hair.Tumblr post

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