Paramore – ‘Misery Business’

To assume makes an ass out of u and me, and a case in point is the presumption that Paramore walked onto magazine covers and strolled to 10 million MySpace plays just through virtue of being a generic emo band with the USP of a teenage female singer.  Not that that's incorrect - they really are a generic emo band with a teenage female singer - but they're also capable of writing a song with a killer chorus, as 'Misery Business' proves.  The production is lively and flawless, the hook irresistible. It may be an example of the most marketable of current genres, but kids aren't mugs - this is a great pop song disguised as a grab for the emo dollar.

Released 18/06/07 on Atlantic Records