Thanks for the note! I once saw comedian Ed Byrne having everyone in stitches by tearing this song apart... Ironic? What's f---ing ironic about rain on your wedding day? That's just f---ing inconvenient! and so on and so on.
While comedians have been making gold off of this for a while... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb0YoRMXIY0#t=10m3s
Just thought I'd throw this out there. You'll need to watch for a few minutes to get the full point, but that's the world we live in. The whole video is great though.
tl;dw: The song's lyrics are about irony, just not situational irony, which is everyone's favorite kind.
No, I've studied the three types and there are only a couple times when the singer meets the other two, but not in the way she intended. However, most of the song is unfortunate events that are closer to situational than the other ironies, but not actually ironic.
Yes, the song is called "Ironic" yet none of the lyrics describe irony. Which is the ironic part. In a song called Ironic, you would expect irony in the song
Ed Byrne eventually signed off this routine by summing up, the only thing that's ironic about the song 'Ironic' is that it's sung by a woman who doesn't know the meaning of the word!
One of the modern classics! Slight error in one clue - it's *a* death row pardon. Also, on the 10 year anniversary acoustic version, she sings that she meets the man of her dreams 'And then meeting his beautiful husband'. Should accept 'beautiful husband' as an answer on that last one.
That seems dumb ... not for any social reasons, but because it doesn't rhyme with "knife". While Alanis is at it, she might as well change the line where the guy says "Well isn't this nice" to something from Brodie Bruce's airplane story in Mallrats.
It's ironic Alanis Morissette's lyrics are parodied when she's more unintelligible than Bob Dylan. I'm not sure I've understood anything she's ever sung.
No, the cigarette break would have to ironically be the reason that you couldn't smoke. The smoking sign is fully intended to stop smoking. The better, more ironic alternative to this is: "You're working on a hard, long day
Your boss decides to let you take a little break
His reasoning is that he wants a quality job and he'll need attention to pay
Excited, you walk right across the concrete that you'd just paved". That has nothing to do with the cigarette, a rather challenging example, and it's way to long. However, it's a pretty basic example of real situational irony.
The guy whose plane went down, she insinuates the flight was being taken to conquer his fear of flying. If that's the case, then that ONE example is ironic...the rest? Nope.
That example does have situational irony, but not exactly in the way you described. The better one is he waited his whole life to fly because he was scared the plane would crash, and that actually resulted in him being on a crashing plane. There is also a minor example of verbal irony when he says "Well isn't this great".
Just thought I'd throw this out there. You'll need to watch for a few minutes to get the full point, but that's the world we live in. The whole video is great though.
tl;dw: The song's lyrics are about irony, just not situational irony, which is everyone's favorite kind.
It's a black fly in your blue Chardonnay
It's a free ride when you're already there
It's the good advice that you just can't take
Your boss decides to let you take a little break
His reasoning is that he wants a quality job and he'll need attention to pay
Excited, you walk right across the concrete that you'd just paved". That has nothing to do with the cigarette, a rather challenging example, and it's way to long. However, it's a pretty basic example of real situational irony.