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Paramore to no longer play controversial track 'Misery Business' live

Frontwoman Hayley Williams, who wrote the song when she was 17 has often expressed her discomfort with the 'anti-feminist' lyricism, which she does not endorse anymore.

Paramore have announced they will no longer play their 2007 breakthrough hit track ‘Misery Business’ at live shows. The track has been the focus of a heated debate whether the lyrics are ‘anti-feminist'. Midway through a special one-off performance at their hometown of Nashville on Friday, which also marked the band's final stop on their After Laughter tour, frontwoman Hayley Williams took a moment to reflect on why they would be retiring the track “for a long time”.

Before launching into the song, Williams said: “This is a choice that we’ve made because we feel that we should, we feel like it’s time to move away from it for a little while. This is to every bad decision that led us here, this is to all the embarrassing things we might have said, but we owned up to it and we grew.”