According to Glamour, producers loved Kendrick's performance and decided to swap out "I'm a Little Teacup" in favor of "Cups" — much to her relief.
"I don't know how I was supposed to play ['I'm a Little Teacup'], so thank God they changed that," she told Jimmy Fallon. "I would've been like, 'I don't know how to make this scene work, guys.'"
The rest is history. In 2013, Billboard reported that the song had risen to the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100. According to CheatSheet, Kendrick and the movie's director, Jason Moore, tried a number of different cups before settling on the ones that were used in the film.
Fans attempting to re-create Beca's audition also went on a search for cups — and Kendrick apologized in a humorous Twitter exchange with Robot Chicken writer Ellory Smith. "I was a camp counselor the year Pitch Perfect came out and I can't tell you how bad it was," Smith tweeted. "We had to ban empty cups."
Kendrick responded by retweeting and adding her own comment: "I am so, so sorry."
"It was like going to war, but eventually I will forgive you!" Smith wrote back.
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