"Misery Business" is a song by American rock band Paramore from their second studio album, Riot!

The song was written about a past experience of the band's lead singer, Hayley Williams, which involved a male friend who she felt was being exploited by a girl; when Williams and her friend dated afterwards, she wrote the track in order to "finally explain my side of the story and feel freed of it all".

26 (for the week of January 12, 2008), making it the band's highest-charting single until "Ain't It Fun" reached No.

[13] However, on the band's blog, Williams claims the song was written about a past experience involving a male friend who she felt was being manipulated by a girl, and later on when Williams and her friend began to date, she penned the lyrics to "finally explain my side of the story and feel freed of it all".

"[16] Sheet music for the song shows common time with a moderate tempo of 86 beats per minute, in the key of F minor.

[17] Williams did not sing the song again until the 2022 Coachella Festival, when she performed an acoustic version with Billie Eilish.

Due to increased digital downloads during the month of August 2007, it re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 during the chart week of September 6, 2007 at #34.

It was the band's highest-charting single at that time, prior to the release of "Ain't It Fun" in 2014, but "Misery Business" still remains the band's most-played song on the radio to date whereas Ain't It Fun never succeeded on alternative radio due to the band's change of style as well as not having the staying power "Misery Business" had, despite charting higher; leaving "Misery Business" as their most popular song to date.

The video starts out and has cut scenes of Paramore performing the song with an assortment of "RIOT!

At the same time, a girl (Amy Paffrath),[26][27] presumably the "whore" as subject in the song, ensues terror onto students at a high school.

In the end, the band members themselves confront her and Williams gives her a taste of her own medicine by taking out her bra inserts and wiping the make-up off her face, thus revealing the girl's true identity and putting an end to her egotistical reign at the high school.

Awards 2007 but lost to Fall Out Boy's "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race.

"[29] Fueled by Ramen (FBR+) also released an alternate cut of the video that removes the high school clips and features only performance segments.

[31] Celebrities are also often invited to join the performance, with past participants including PinkPantheress,[32] Lil Uzi Vert,[33] and basketball player Stephen Curry.