"Miserable"
Single by Lit
from the album A Place in the Sun
ReleasedJanuary 2000[1]
Recorded1998
Genre
Length4:15
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)
  • A. Jay Popoff
  • Jeremy Popoff
Lit singles chronology
"Zip-Lock"
(1999)		 "Miserable"
(2000)		 "Over My Head"
(2000)

"Miserable" is a song by the American rock band Lit. It is the third single released in autumn 1999 from Lit's second album, A Place in the Sun.

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".[4] The first three lines describe three stages of a relationship, from the use of the homophone "come/cum" in "you make me come" to "you make me complete" to "you make me completely miserable".

Music video

The song had an accompanying music video, which was filmed around February 2000 in Los Angeles and directed by Evan Bernard and produced by Keeley Gould.

The music video starts with the band performing the song on and around Vallery Irons (played by Pamela Anderson) who is huge and wears a white bikini and platform shoes. The video begins by panning over her body and then reveals her to be enormous, and that the band is performing on her butt as she lies down. The band is later seen hiking up the incline of her hip while she playfully waves at them.

With her foot casually poised in the air, the band stands on the bottom of her platform heels. Val, meanwhile glances back and giggles at them. She casually yet playfully shakes her platform heel, and A. Jay and the others struggle to keep from falling off. When they manage to keep their footing, she looks away and rolls her eyes.

This is followed by them performing on her head, her knee, returning to play on her butt, and walking across her breasts. There are also several shots interspersed of different bandmembers on her raised knee as she reclines back, watching them intently. She begins swaying to the music as the band performs around her. Shortly afterwards she starts eyeing them as she holds them.

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 Baldes is standing on her lips. She opens her mouth, causing him to fall inside as she eats him. The other band members panic and run from her as she chases after them.

As the members of Lit scatter, she singles out Allen and easily catches up to him, despite running in high heels. She scoops him up and dangles him in front of her face. Allen puts his hands out in front of him and attempts to plead for his life, but Vallery ignores his pleads and eats him.

Her next target is Jeremy, who is hiding behind a speaker. She creeps up behind him and positions herself right above the guitarist. Jeremy throws his hands up as if begging her to stop. Vallery inhales him up. She then pauses for a moment, rolling something around on her tongue. She spits out one of his signature white-flame shoes.

Finally, 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 smile. After that she tosses him into the air and catches the flailing A. Jay in her mouth, ending the video with her strolling off.

The music video was released on February 4, 2000.[5]

Charts

Chart (2000) Peak
position
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[6] 17
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[7] 3
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[8] 29

References

  1. ↑ "Billboard". 15 January 2000.
  2. ↑ "Woodstock '99 Report #16: Lit Get Down, Buckcherry Get 'Lit Up'". MTV.
  3. ↑ "Lit drummer Allen Shellengberger has brain cancer". Musicradar. 23 May 2008.
  4. ↑ Pesselnick, Jill (April 1, 2000). "The Modern Age". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 14. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 101. ISSN 0006-2510.
  5. ↑ "Billboard". 19 February 2000.
  6. ↑ "Lit Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Lit Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Lit Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
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