"Miserable" is a single by Alternative Rock group Lit. The song is from their album A Place in The Sun. As with most of their songs, it features A.Jay Popoff on vocals, Jeremy Popoff on guitar, Allen Shellenberger on drums and Kevin Baldes on bass.

The song charted #3 on the US Modern Rock Tracks and is one of the band's biggest hits, along with "My Own Worst Enemy".

The videos features a giant woman, played by special guest star Pamela Anderson, dressed in a white bikini and pair of black, platform pumps as she lounges atop a white fur rug, flirting with the members of Lit as they climb and explore different parts of her body while they serenade her with the titular song.

The video first premiered on Pamela Anderson's show V.I.P. in the episode "Hard Val's Night". It also became a staple on MTV during the early 2000's.

The video helped keep the song holding onto its number three spot just as it seemed like its run was about to peter out, and for many, the video is far more well known than the song itself. It might even be the most well known thing they've ever done.

The video itself can be viewed on YouTube here.

"Miserable" contains examples of:

• Addiction Song: The band's singer has stated that, if not interpreted as an anti-love song, it could also be about addiction. The fact that the "woman" (represented by Pamela Anderson/Vallery Irons) is described as using up his friends and plans, yet she still "means everything (to him)", and the fact that in the end she shows no care towards them support this alternative interpretation.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The band members cower and beg for their lives in their final moments as the giant Pamela Anderson turns on them and consumes them.
• All Men Are Perverts: The entire all-male band seems to have no personal reservations about literally performing on top of a woman - besides their brief alarm at almost being flung to their deaths. As such, some interpret the music video about being a screed against sexism and objectification.
• All Take and No Give: The gist of the lyrics features the singer essentially giving up everything from their friends to their aspirations for the sake of their lover's desires, no matter small, with nothing being given in return.
• All There in the Script: In promotional materials for the video the giant woman's name is listed as Val (after Vallery Irons, Pam Anderson's character from VIP, where the video premiered).
• Ambiguous Situation: Did the giantess always intend to turn on the band and eat them, or did she just decide to do so on a whim?
• Attack of the Monster Appendage: As Allen Shellenberger is running from Pam/Val we see her enormous hand swoop in front of the camera, blocking his path as she scoops him up to eat him.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: On top of being all about a band and a giant-sized version of Pamela Anderson, the finale features the giantess literally attacking the band.
• Anti-Love Song: The relationship A.J. is singing about isn't a very positive one. The chorus even says "You make me completely miserable."
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: Done not once, but twice in the chorus. At first it seems like they're saying "You make me cum", then it sounds like they're saying "You make me complete", and finally, they finish the sentence as "You make me completely miserable".
• Beauty Is Bad
• Beauty Equals Goodness
• Between My Legs: One very notable shot features the band performing at ground level, less than a few feet from the giantess as she stands over them, legs slightly spread - to the point that the band are left literally performing in her shadow.
• Big Rock Ending
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The giantess initially appears coquettish and sweet... but isn't above doing little desplays of power that leave the band in fear for their lives, clearly amused by their fear. And then she starts eating them, caring nothing for their terrified begging.
• Casually Powerful Giant: When the band performs on Pam's platform heel, the simple act of waggling her foot in the air is treated like they're trying to perform in the middle of an earthquake.
• Cower Power: After the giantess shows her true colours, the band are not above cowering behind just above anything or anyone in their efforts to save themselves from being devoured alive.
• Clung on Tight: While the band are performing on one of the giantess's shoes, she shakes her foot, and the guys have to desperately try to keep their footing. When they fail to fall off, she simply looks away and rolls her eyes, seemingly annoyed.
• Colossus Climb: The band find themselves doing this as they use the giantess as a stage, performing on her belly, her shoes, her head...
• Cue Card... Pause: The three choruses go: "You make me come...", "You make me complete...", and finally "You make me completely miserable".
• Dangled by a Giant: Once the giantess turns on the band, one of her victims finds himself dangled by the collar before being eaten alive.
• Darker and Edgier
• Death by Music Video: The band themselves end up being killed over the course of the music video, with the Kevin Baldes being eaten by surprise and the rest of the band being whittled away one by one as they try to hide or beg for mercy.
• Dissonant Serenity: The giantess herself when she finally turns on the team and devours them, takes a very calm, borderline relaxed approach to the whole thing.
• Double Entendre
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
• Downer Ending: The music video ends with the giantess turning on the band and devouring them alive.
• Dwindling Party: The entire band is devoured one by one over the course of the finale by the giantess.
• Eaten Alive: The fate of the band, none of whom are killed prior to being eaten by the giantess.
• Epic Riff: As the song nears the final chorus, there's a prominent electric guitar solo that slowly starts to build up in pace towards the Big Rock Ending. In the video, this is accompanied by shots of Pam/Vallery writhing slowly to the music and the band framed between her legs before cutting to the band lined up on her face, with the bassist standing on her lips. The riff ends right as the bassist falls into her mouth, alerting the others.
• Extreme Close-Up: The music video begins with several close-ups of the giantess's legs and thighs, making them seem more like rolling hillocks until the camera pulls back and reveals what the band is actually performing on.
• Face Death with Dignity: Downplayed and Subverted; some of the band get the opportunity to go out calmly and with dignity, but mostly because they were too surprised to react to the deaths. The rest are reduced to hiding or begging for mercy.
• Face–Heel Turn
• Fanservice: Suffice it to say that the lion's share of the film involves Pamela Anderson in a skimpy getup.
• Fantastically Indifferent: The band are surprisingly blase about performing on a literal giantess, continuing to play on as if nothing could possibly be unusual about the situation. Subverted, once the giantess begins doing little actions to scare them and again in the finale, when she flat-out devours all of them.
• Fearsome Foot: Perhaps the only time this ptrope was used both for a sense of dread and some fanservice. While A.Jay is by himself, being the Sole Survivor among his bandmates, we see one of Val's platform stripper pumps stomp down behind him. This signals his doom since as soon as he turns around, she picks him up and eats him.
• Femme Fatale
• Feminine Leg Swish: The giantess is in this position as the band perform on the sole of one of her platform heels... and the swishing leaves the band at risk of falling to their deaths.]]
• Foreshadowing: The leg-swishing incident, in which the band are left in danger of falling to their deaths, and it's made clear that the giantess may not be so gentle or sweet-natured as she initially appears. This escalates to the cannibalistic murder of the entire band.
• Gentle Giant: Subverted; initially, Pam seems very placid around the band, but it soon becomes clear that she's only tolerating their presence for as long as they're amusing to her - to the point that she begins casually threatening to tip them to their death while they're performing on the underside of her platform heels. And then she kills them all.]
• Giant Equals Invincible
• Giant Woman: Pamela Anderson in a nutshell, being tens of metres taller than the band and very much played for a mixture of titillation and intimidation.
• Girly Run: When she finally turns on the band and begins eating them alive, the giantess can be seen tottering after them - in part because of the platform heels.
• Head Pet: The entire band ends up becoming this, performing right on top of the giantess's head, nestled in her hair - much to Pam's bemusement.
• Helpless Kicking: One bandmember is dangled by the shirt and left kicking futilely in the air - before Pam eats him.
• Hot Paint Job: Jeremy's signature shoes have white flames decorating the tops.
• Hotter and Sexier
• High-Heel Power: Pamela is wearing a pair of platform high heels and is naturally posed as being more powerful and more dominant than the entire band put together.
• I'm a Humanitarian: The giantess is a literal man-eater, either out of hunger or sadism.
• Impossibly Graceful Giant: As colossal as she is, Pam can easily outpace and outmaneouvre the band.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: In keeping with the giantess's connection to the lyrical discussion of obsession, sexual desire, and misery, the music video ends with the scantily-clad giantess slaughtering the entire team in a gluttonous free-for-all.
• Joke of the Butt: The band literally performs on the cheeks of the giantess's ass at the start.
• Kaiju
• Karma Houdini: The giantess ends the music video completely unpunished for eating the band alive.
• Lack of Empathy: The lyrics discuss a romantic partner that destroys the singer's life with no regard for their friendships, dreams, or consent. In turn, the giantess clearly has no regard for the personal desires, fears, or pain of the band members; at one point, while they are performing on the underside of one of her platform heels, she casually waves her leg back and forth, leaving the band in a panic as their makeshift stage threatens to send them plummeting to their deaths. Taken to its logical conclusion in the finale, in which she eats the entire band alive, caring nothing for their pleas for mercy.
• Larger Than Life Promo: Inverted by the album art for the single (as seen above), which features a tiny Ms. Fanservice lounging in a martini glass. This highly contrasts with the actual music video (and promos for said music video) where the band is playing on top of, then get eaten by, a giant Ms. Fanservice as she lounges around.
• Leg Focus: Being bigger than the band and often too big to fit in frame, Pam is subject to a lot of camera focus on her legs towering over the other characters.
• Light Is Not Good: Pam/Vallery has golden blonde hair, wears a bikini that is almost entirely white, and even has white nail polish. But if the song is anything to go by, she's a selfish, manipulative, bitch who uses her sex appeal to control the men in her life. She also seems to take great joy in watching her men squirm and cower in front of her before she eats them. Almost treating it like a game.
• Literal Man Eater: The finale features the sexualized "incarnation of an abusive girlfriend" giantess eating the entire band alive.
• Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Combined with Spit Out a Shoe - while ingesting a band member, one of his shoes comes loose in Pam's mouth. Apparently disliking it, the giantess spits it out.
• Lust Object
• Male Gaze: The music video features a lot of close-up shots of Pamela Anderson's legs, buttocks, and bosom.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": The moment Kevin Baldes is eaten, the entire band panics and scatters in all directions.
• Men Are the Expendable Gender: The entire male cast is wiped out by the end of the music video.
• Men Are Tough
• Mood Whiplash: The music video appears to be doing nothing more than blending sex appeal and comedy - right up until the finale, in which the giantess very suddenly begins eating the band.
• Ms. Fanservice: The giantess, which the music video takes great pains to focus on her breasts, ass, and legs - especially when the band literally perform on them.
• Named by the Adaptation: The V.I.P. episode the video premiered on, as well as some promotional materials, refer to the giantess as Val, or Vallery Irons, rather than leaving her nameless or calling her Pam as is often the case.
• Nobody Loves the Bassist: Poor bassist Kevin Baldes is the first band member to get eaten. And in a manner that makes him look stupid.
• Oh, Crap!: Following the initial panic, the remaining band members are left frozen in looks of unbridled terror as the giantess corners and eats them one by one.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: A possible motivation for the giantess turning on the band in the finale, having finally gotten sick of them using her body as a stage.
• Pretty Freeloader: Judgin by the lyrics, the giant woman A.Jay is singing to is playing on his lust for her to use up everything he has, including his plans and friends. Her actions may also extend to the other guys in the band as well.
• Proud Beauty:
• Riding in the Palms of Giants: The band's use of the giantess as a stage extends to literally performing in the palm of her outstretched hand.
• Psycho Sexual Horror
• Rent-a-Zilla
• Reveal Shot: The first few shots of the music video feature medium shots of the band on a non-specific stage, followed by close-up shots of Pam's legs... before the song kicks into gear, and all of a sudden, a cut to long range reveals that Pam is a giantess and the "stage" that the band are performing on is actually Pam's ass.
• Rule of Sexy: There's no plot or specific reason for Pam/Val to be a giantess, so the entire story is essentially governed by what will be the most titillating, enthralling, and dangerous.
• Sadist: Rather than just killing the entire band all at once, the giantess opts to amuse herself by putting them in potentially deadly situations before turning on them, and then, she devours them one at a time, leaving them to cower and beg for their lives.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: All the members of Lit are fully clothed, with the only real skin showing coming from Allen (the drummer) in his blood red shorts. Meanwhile, Pam/Vallery, the woman making them miserable, is only wearing a bikini and platform stripper pumps.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl
• Sibling Team: Lead vocalist A. J. Popoff, and lead guitarist Jeremy Popoff are brothers.
• Side Boob: Despite the slightly sports bra like nature of the bikini top, the video still features a couple shots of side boob while Pam is swaying to the band's music. Which adds to the Fanservice-y and Male Gaze-y nature of the video.
• Silent Snarker: The giantess has no lines, but she can be seen reacting to the band's performance with silent eyerolls and exasperated looks.
• Spit Out a Shoe: After making another meal out of yet another band-member, Val/Pam makes a face and spits out one of his shoes.
• Stealthy Colossus: Despite the sheer size of the giantess, she still manages to catch the band off-guard during the climactic massacre, when she all but sneaks up on Jeremy Popoff while he's trying to hide, and A.Jay by practically dropping into shot behind him.
• Strange Stage: The giantess herself becomes a stage, with the band performing on her butt, her face, even on the sole of one of her platform heels.
• Stripperiffic:
• Supermodel Strut:
  • As one would expect of Pamela Anderson in platform shoes, this is her default walk.
  • The End
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: The first death - with Kevin Baldes being swallowed by the giantess mere seconds after a shot performed over her mouth - comes out of nowhere and takes the rest of the band completely by surprise.
• Swallowed Whole: As is common for giants in fiction, especially the titillating ones, the giant Pamela Anderson doesn't bother chewing her food when she turns on the band.
• Tempting Fate
• The Tease
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Exaggerated; the band are less than action figure-sized when compared to the gigantic Pamela Anderson.
• Title Drop: The chorus builds up to a title drop with the phrase, "You make me completely Miserable."
• Too Dumb to Live: Apparently, performing on the body of a giantess might be dangerous. Who knew?
• To Serve Man
• Vacuum Mouth: Rather than biting down on one of the band members below her, the giantess literally inhales him into her mouth and swallows him whole.
• The Vamp: The subject of the lyrics, a ruthless seducer who ruins the singer's life by essentially overtaking everything in it, including friends, personal goals, and even basic happiness. Also, the giantess, a raunchy sex symbol who essentially holds the lives of the band in the hollow of her hand, quite literally - and ultimately eats them for seemingly no other reason than her own amusement and satisfaction.
• Undignified Death: There are probably more respectable deaths than being eaten by a scantily-clad giantess after a) performing all over her body, and b) begging for mercy or trying to hide.
• Visual Pun:
• Walking Swimsuit Scene: To nobody's great surprise, Pamela Anderson spends the entirety of her time onscreen in a very skimpy outfit.
• White Void Room: The video takes place in a blue featureless expanse.
• Women Are Delicate
• Zoomed-Out Reframing Gag: Combined with the Reveal Shot, in which Pam's height and the nature of the "stage" the band are performing on are revealed as we cut to a long shot.