. The emo-pop band revived its breakthrough single “Misery Business” at its tour stop in Bakersfield, California, on Sunday, playing it live for the first time since retiring it in 2018. At the time, lead singer Hayley Williams said the band would stop playing the song “for a really long time” largely due to listener backlash. Some critics found “Misery Business” sexist, particularly for one lyric that refers to another woman as a “whore.
“The problem with the lyrics is not that I had an issue with someone I went to school with … It’s the way I tried to call her out using words that didn’t belong in the conversation,” she said in a 2017 interview. Even before she stopped performing it, Williams distanced herself from its lyrics in a 2015 blog post.
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