YMMV / Miserable

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Was the giantess Evil All Along, and always plan on betraying and swallowing them, or did she simply get bored of the band and decided to eat them for fun?
  • There's also a question of just how innocent the band members are and how much they might have deserved to get eaten by the woman. For some people, they are innocent victims and getting swallowed by the woman was a cruel downer ending. For others it's cathartic/Karmic, seeing the band members as jerks and perverts for walking all over the Giant Woman's body. So when she starts gleefully devouring them, she's putting the guys in their place and invoking Just Desserts.
• Applicability: A.J. Popoff describes the song the song this way. Despite the lyrics and accompanying music video making it about being in lust with someone despite them making your life hell, A.J. says it could also be about addiction or any other toxic "obsession."
  • The music video can and has been seen as an allegory for various subjects. Notably abusive relationships^note The giant woman uses the guys forher own amusement before killing them. , female empowerment^note She is treated as a Lust Object throughout the video, and the men are literally "walking all over her." Then at the end she takes control back by eating the men, having always had the power to do so. , adultery^note The woman is literally a "maneater" who "use(s) up all of (The singer's) friends." , and emasculation ^note  The males in the video are small and helpless and the woman, by contrast, is giant, powerful and, once she decides to do it, the males' attempts at survival look pathetic as the woman treats devouring them like a game.
• Best Known For The Fan Service: Not that the song wasn't popular in its own right, but what people most remember is the video. Which featured a colossal, half-naked Pamela Anderson lounging around in a bikini and platform shoes while Lit walked across her butt.
• Signature Scene: The video has a few to choose from:
  • Pam/Val lying on her stomach while the band is rocking out on top of her butt. The shot was even used on promotional posters for the video.
  • The band on top of one of the giant woman's shoes while she has it poised in the air. Then she shakes her foot, causing the band to almost fall off.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Despite being released in 2000, the music video's effects still look pretty good.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: For the video, there are those who see the guys in the band as JerkAsses for singing a song that's basically insulting the Giant Woman to her face, all while also objectifying her and climbing all over her body despite hints ^note  Such as when she almost shakes them off her high heel shoe. that she might want them off. These people also tend to see the part where she starts eating the guys alive while they panic as cathartic, saying that they "deserved it."
• The Woobie: A Jay Popoff (the lead singer) is easy to feel bad for in the video. It's clear from the song that the Giant Woman he's singing to is not good for him. Judging by the lyrics she's using him and his friends for her own amusement and seems to not value the guys as a people. Even if she seems friendly at first she still does things like nearly send him flying with a shake of her foot just to show her power over him. Then by the end of the video things take an even worse turn when she suddenly decides that she's going to eat him and his band mates. One by one his two best friends and his brother get Swallowed Whole by this woman who then proceeds to devour him as well.

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