The Complicated History of Paramore’s “Misery Business”

) and is still one of their biggest songs. At the same time, the song has drawn controversy because of its internalized misogyny. Most of the criticism focuses on the line, “Once a whore, you’re nothing more, I’m sorry that’ll never change,” because of the derogatory term, slut-shaming and how it reinforces the reduction of women down to that label, permanently.

But it’s not just the one line. The speaker in the song criticizes her love interest’s ex using sexist language and ideas, with the music video buying into the same misogyny in its depiction of its female-presenting villain. And Williams has acknowledged the track’s issues, on multiple occasions. “The problem with the lyrics is not that I had an issue with someone I went to school with,” Williams said in a 2017 interview with. “That’s just high school and friendships and breakups.

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