Is it possible to write a song that rhymes “Cupid” with anything other than “stupid”? An analysis.

Think back to the last time you heard a song that mentioned Cupid. (It may be helpful to put yourself in a certain February holiday frame of mind.)

Did the song rhyme anything with cupid? It did? What word did the songwriter user? Was it stupid? It was? Is it even possible to rhyme cupid with anything else? Let’s find out.

I analyzed the top 1,000 songs that Genius.com returns when you search for the term cupid in lyrics. (Why 1,000? Genius.com won’t return more than 1,000 results for any search term. Bad news for anyone compiling a comprehensive playlist of country songs mentioning trucks.)

After removing variations, translations, and false positives from the search results, 786 unique songs remained.

Song Artist
#FÉLABACKPRIME
**RIDIN**Jessie Reyez (Ft. Lil Wayne)
100 ConmigoEladio Carrión
100 FavorsRich Gang (Ft. Birdman, Detail & Kendrick Lamar)
1000COSASLola Indigo & Manuel Turizo
135Capital STEEZ
19 días y 500 nochesJoaquín Sabina
1969dimeMonica Riskey
1st & LoveBrandy
1st Impressions: 4 Irene2Pac
Show the remaining songs mentioning Cupid ▾

In those 786 songs, 176 songs had a line ending with cupid, accounting for 187 distinct lines.

Song Lyric
1969dimeso lets go and get cupid
3rd Quarterred diamond chain but it sure ain’t cupid
A Chicken with Its Head Cut Offintelligible and cute as cupid
A Little Appalledtruth is, i ain’t the most ruthless, but i’m not cupid
A Little Bit Coolerand grow a gheri curl, wear a diaper like cupid
A Thousand Timesnow you got me feeling like shooting cupid
A and Wtell that bitch to get back with her man like i was cupid
AMP FRESHMAN CYPHER 2023fell in love with a teller, i don’t know cupid
Adults Swim’cause she got a diaper booty like cupid
Alonei need to have a talk with cupid
Show the remaining lines ending in ‘cupid’ ▾

Rhyming schemes vary (AA, ABAB, the rest), so I manually reviewed every instance of cupid for nearby rhymes.

In twenty-three instances, there is no attempt to rhyme with cupid, leaving 164 relevant rhymes. How many of those rhymes were stupid?

72%! One-hundred and eighteen cupid/stupid pairings. It’s a match made in heaven, almost as if the two words were struck by a certain cherub’s arrow…

What rhymes comprise the remaining 28%? Artists have not reached a consensus on the second-best rhyme for cupid, with no term breaking 3% market share.

Rhyme Count Percentage
stupid11872.0%
do it53.0%
music53.0%
use it21.2%
do this21.2%
clueless21.2%
lucid21.2%
lupus21.2%
looptid10.6%
shoe fit10.6%
pursue it10.6%
recruited10.6%
booming10.6%
two lips10.6%
undisputed10.6%
abuse it10.6%
hoopty10.6%
two gigs10.6%
knew it10.6%
loupe it10.6%
nudist10.6%
dooby10.6%
lose it10.6%
lupid10.6%
foolish10.6%
deuces10.6%
new zip10.6%
puth did10.6%
truth is10.6%
deluded10.6%
booted10.6%
new vish10.6%
substitution10.6%
cute shit10.6%

Special recognition goes to Digital Underground for this couplet that rhymes cupid with stupid but also acknowledges the lack of other suitable rhymes:

I get stupid, I’ll shoot an arrow like Cupid
I’ll use a word that don’t mean nothing like, “Looptid”

So yes, it is possible to rhyme cupid with something other than stupid, but you’ll be running against the wind. For any singers suffering from songwriter’s block, here are a couple of as-of-yet unused rhymes you can consider for your next love song:

  • soup lid
  • goop slid
  • haplogroup grid

and

  • embroidery hoop squid.


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