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Miserable (song)

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Released
  
April 17, 2000

Recorded
  
1998

Length
  
4:15

Format
  
CD

Genre
  
Pop punk post-grunge

Label
  
RCA

"Miserable" is a song from Lit's album A Place in the Sun.

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Meaning

Lit's vocalist, A. Jay Popoff, said that " 'Miserable' is basically about feeling like you need something really bad, and when you have it, it makes you feel like shit. Some people feel it's about a person, but it's not necessarily. It can be about addiction".

Music video

The song had an accompanying music video, directed by Evan Bernard and produced by Keeley Gould, in which the band is portrayed performing the song on and around a huge Pamela Anderson, who wears a white bikini and platform shoes. The video begins by panning over Anderson's body then reveals her to be enormous and the band performing on her backside as she lies on her stomach. The band, A.Jay. Popoff, Jeremy Popoff, Kevin Baldes and Allen Shellenburger, are later seen hiking up her thigh and she waves at them.

With her foot casually poised in the air Lit stand on the bottom of her platform heels. As A Jay. sings about being "helpless" Anderson playfully shakes her high heels slightly, causing him to nearly fall off. This is followed by them performing on her head, her knee, back to her backside, and walking across her breasts. She begins swaying to the music as the band performs around her. Shortly afterword she starts eyeing them as she holds them in her hand, A Jay swings his arm and Pamela's hair whips in front of her face that seems to imply he struck her, though she seems otherwise unaffected.

The band goes back to performing in front of her rather than on her before it cuts to her lying down and the band on her face.

While they are performing on her face Kevin is standing on her lips. She opens her mouth, causing him to fall inside and get swallowed. The other band members panic and run from her as she chases after them. She easily catches Allen and dangles him in front of her. He unsuccessfully attempts to plead for his life, but Pamela is unmoved and she eats him. Her next target is Jeremy, who is hiding behind a speaker. She creeps of behind him and positions herself right above him. Jeremy throws his hands up as if begging her to stop. Pamela inhales and slurps him into her mouth, then proceeds to spit out one of his shoes. Finally, after watching his brother and friends get swallowed A Jay is left, who she quickly grabs. She holds him by the collar of his shirt, which is pinched between her fingers, and gives him one final look. After that she tosses him into the air and catches the flailing A Jay in her mouth and devours him. She happily strolls off and the video ends.

References

Miserable (song) Wikipedia