ITS LIKE SPOOOOOONS IN MY POKING HAND
ITS LIKE FREE WEEEEEED! WHEN I’M ALREADY BAKED!
ITS A FLEEEEECE TIDE, WHEN YOURE ALREADY PATE
I have to wonder if anyone involved in that album - the producer, the audio engineer, the kid who changes the guitar strings - anyone - thought to stop her and say, “Hey, this is the incorrect use of the word, you’re setting yourself up for decades of ridicule.” Like, did they not know either? Were they all afraid of her?
Though…the meta aspect of this is that a song called “Ironic” that misuses the word is actually…kinda ironic. Maybe that was the real artistry at work and we all just missed it. 🤷🏻
“Though…the meta aspect of this is that a song called “Ironic” that misuses the word is actually…kinda ironic. Maybe that was the real artistry at work and we all just missed it. 🤷🏻”
Pretty sure this was intentional. A song named Ironic that doesn’t have any actual examples of irony is in itself ironic. That’s the joke.
That song taught me that no matter what you’re describing, if you call something “ironic” somebody will correct you.
Ironic, isn’t it?
Like the Tragedy of Darth Plagius the Wise?
More simply put, it came to acquire the general definition, “the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect”.
It’s like rain on your wedding day.
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paidWell, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything’s okay and everything’s going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out
When you think everything’s gone wrong and everything blows up in your facemay it be that it’s not the described situations that are ironic but life itself ? Life is using irony to tell Alanis something
I bet if They Might Be Giants wrote the song more people would get the joke.
All these years later they’re still missing the joke, but they’re still talking about it. That’s some kind of consolation prize.
Were they all afraid of her?
A barely recognized singer songwriter that was a wafer-thin smoker whose hair represented 30% of her body weight?
I’d be afraid I’d knock her over if I talked too loud.
Haha, yes this has been nagging me since the release. Still a good song, though.
he won the lottery and died in sleep paralisys the next day. isnt that ironic allanis asked…
She needs to be asking for the definition of coincidence.
I don’t think the examples in the song are even a coincidence. Just unfortunate. Like… Rain on your wedding day?
Ed Byrne has a whole bit about it: https://youtu.be/nT1TVSTkAXg
Rain on a wedding day would be a coincidence.
The plumbers lament.
Is it ironic if the audience knows it’s not but the people they’re talking about don’t know?
