Stupid Cupid 公主日記

這首歌於1958年由 Howard Greenfield和Neil Sedaka作曲,Connie Francis唱紅。2000年Mandy Moore在《公主日記》(The Princess Diaries)片中穿插唱出此曲。

《公主日記》是迪士尼公司2000年出品的電影,由茱莉·安德魯斯、安海瑟威、曼蒂·摩爾主演,加里馬歇爾執導,改編自同名英語小說。講述一個紐約城裡一個普普通通的女孩兒,甚至在學校被視為透明,但被證實是一個臨近小國的公主,而後公主由皇后奶奶調教為舉止優雅的真正公主,並最終選擇擔當起治理國家的責任的故事。

“Stupid Cupid” is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Neil Sedaka which became a hit for Connie Francis in 1958.
In the spring of 1958 Francis had hit #4 with her breakout hit, a rock ballad version of the standard “Who’s Sorry Now?”. The similarly-styled follow-up”I’m Sorry I Made You Cry” had barely reached the Top 40 and Francis recalls: “I knew I had to come up with a hit on the third record. It was crucial. I listened to every publisher’s song in New York, but nothing was hitting me.” Eventually Don Kirshner of Aldon Music had Greenfield and Sedaka, who were staff writers for Aldon, visit Francis at her home to pitch their songs; after listening to a number of ballads—which both Francis and her visitor Bobby Darin felt were too sophisticated to appeal to the teen market—Francis asked if the songwriters had “something a little more lively” and Greenfield asked Sedaka to play “Stupid Cupid”, an uptempo number intended for the Shepherd Sisters. Sedaka objected that Francis, a “classy lady”, would be insulted to be pitched such a puerile song; but Greenfield dismissed Sedaka’s objection, saying, “What have we got to lose, she hates everything we wrote, doesn’t she? Play it already!” After hearing only a few lines Francis recalls: “I started jumping up and down and I said, ‘That’s it! You guys got my next record!'”
Francis cut “Stupid Cupid” on 18 June 1958 at Metropolitan Studio (NYC); LeRoy Holmes conducted the orchestra while Morty Kraft produced the session. Noteworthy in the recording is the uncredited bass guitar work; a complex and energetic riff that has survived the decades and has proven to be one of early rock and roll’s best recorded bass guitar sessions. A version of “Carolina Moon” recorded at Metropolitan Studio that 9 June with Kraft producing and Joe Lipman conducting was utilized as the B-side. “Stupid Cupid” provided a reasonably strong comeback vehicle for Francis reaching the Top 15 that August with a Billboard Hot 100 peak of #14. Francis would have to wait until 1959 to make her return to the Top 10 via “My Happiness”.
In the UK Francis had made more chart impact than in the US with both “Who’s Sorry Now?” (#1) and “I’m Sorry I Made You Cry” (#11); this trend continued with “Stupid Cupid” which—as a double sided hit with “Carolina Moon”—spent six weeks at #1 UK matching the success of “Who’s Sorry Now”. Francis would remain a potent UK chart force for the next four years with fifteen Top Twenty singles—eight of them Top Ten—but she would never again reach #1 UK despite topping the US charts three times in the early 60s.

By Connie Francis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8_oucBYblI

By Mandy Moore

Lyrics

Stupid Cupid, you’re a real mean guy I’d like to clip your wings so you can’t fly I am in love and it’s a crying shame And I know that you’re the one to blame
Hey hey, set me free Stupid Cupid, stop picking on me
Can’t do my homework, and I can’t think straight I meet him every morning ’bout a half past eight I’m acting like a lovesick fool You’ve even got me carrying his books to school
Hey hey, set me free Stupid Cupid, stop picking on me
You mixed me up for good right from the very start Hey, go play Robin Hood with somebody else’s heart
*You’ve got me jumping like a crazy clown And I don’t feature what you’re putting down Since I kissed his loving lips of wine The thing that bothers me is that I like it fine
Hey hey, set me free Stupid Cupid, stop picking on me(*)
Hey, hey, set me free Stupid Cupid, stop picking on me Hey, hey, set me free Stupid Cupid, stop picking on me
愚蠢的愛神,你真是個殘酷的傢伙 我很想剪掉你的翅膀,讓你飛不起來 我戀愛了,但那令人哭泣又很丟臉 這全都要怪在你頭上
嘿!放過我 笨邱比特,別再選上我啦!
我沒辦法做功課,沒辦法思考 我每天早上八點半左右都會遇見他 我表現得像個有相思病的笨蛋 你甚至害我帶著他的課本上學
嘿!放過我 笨邱比特,別再選上我啦!
你從一開始就把我搞得糊裡糊塗 嘿,你何不扮演羅賓漢去捉弄別人
你害我像瘋狂的小丑雀躍萬分 我也不像你筆下所寫的那樣 從我吻了他醇酒般的甜美雙唇以後 我喜歡上的,也讓我煩惱不已
嘿!放過我 笨邱比特,別再選上我啦!
嘿!放過我 笨邱比特,別再選上我啦! 嘿!放過我 笨邱比特,別再選上我啦!

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