We all know the story about second album syndrome: once promising band releases the proverbial truck-load of rubbish, only to never be heard from again. It's happened before, and it'll doubtless happen again. But not, that is, to Tennessee young'uns Paramore.
Misery Business is pretty much the kind of chick-baiting ass-kicking anthem you'd expect to lead off US tykes Paramore's upcoming second record, Riot!. Lead chanteuse Hayley Williams cuts a razor sharp line through the single's manipulative, boy-stealing lead bitch, professing such niceties as "second chances they don't ever matter, people never change" and "once a whore you're nothing more" along the way.
For all it's lyrical misgivings - it is, after all, largely derivative teen break-up fare - Misery Business remains a delightfully rampant three minutes that prospers from Williams' ever-improving vocal abilities, and is sure to have their legions of fans air-guitaring all the way to the local record store.
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