Paramore are no longer in the business of misery.
The alternative rock band released its track, Misery Business, in 2007 as the first single from its sophomore album, Riot!
The song became the band’s first to sell more than 20,000 copies in the UK and peaked at #26 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Now, the track which has been credited with introducing the Tennessee group to mainstream audiences will no longer be played at their shows.
During their concert at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium on Friday, Paramore’s frontwoman, Hayley Williams, said, “Tonight, we’re playing the song for the last time for a really long time. This is a choice that we have made because we feel that we should. We feel like it’s time to move away from it for a little while.”
The decision is believed to have been prompted by the lyrics in the second verse which state: “Second chances, they don’t ever matter, people never change / Once a whore, you’re nothing more, I’m sorry that’ll never change.”
“Misery Business‘ is not a set of lyrics that I relate to as a 26-year-old woman. I haven’t related to it in a very long time,” Hayley wrote on Tumblr in 2015. “Those words were written when I was 17… admittedly, from a very narrow-minded perspective. It wasn’t really meant to be this big philosophical statement about anything. It was quite literally a page in my diary about a singular moment I experienced as a high schooler.”
Before launching into the song for the final time, 29-year-old said, “This is to every bad decision that led us here. This is to all the embarrassing things we might have said. But we owned up to it, and we grew.”
