Cosmic irony is a sharp incongruity between our expectation of an outcome and what actually occurs.
Most of what she talks about does suck, but I don't know if I'd necessarily call them ironic. For example: "It's like rain on your wedding day".....What is ironic about that? Just because it's someone's wedding day it does not mean that it is expected not to rain. Or another: "It's a traffic jam, when your already late"...total pain, but not ironic.
Now don't get me wrong...some of these things are ironic, but shouldn't someone slap her or something....at least for making that awful video?
2007-02-06 05:32:21 · 9 answers · asked by Huh? 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Christmas vacation, 2005. I'm listening to the radio in Ontario, near Kingston on the side of a lake. My girlfriend and I just broke up. Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic" comes on. After a minute, I yelled "It's not ironic!"
I tore that ******* radio up. I threw it against the wall a few times, went at with a Sobe bottle, danced all over it, and continued to attempt to break it down into its base elements. "Not ironic! Shitty! ****** shitty!" Finally, I walked onto the back porch and threw it as hard as I could across the lake, covered in ice and snow.
Yeah, it's hella ironic. I just pray that she was TRYING to be ironic, but honestly I have no idea. I'm pretty sure they said something about it on the fake news segment of SNL a long time ago, too.
I miss my radio....
2007-02-06 05:45:17 · answer #1 · answered by Rey Gamberro Salvador 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's kind of funny because in the "Alanis Morissette iTunes Originals," which has some songs and then her commentary in between, she says, "I think the most ironic thing about 'ironic' is that it's not filled with ironies." At least she is aware of it.
2007-02-07 15:10:24 · answer #2 · answered by Sabrina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely the music because it states is approximately irony in the time of life, so in that lyric she says that the guy waited his total life to take a flight, yet then it starts to crash it particularly is the irony. So asserting "nicely isn't this effective" is a actual understatement that contributes to the music's meaning of irony.
2016-12-13 10:19:24 · answer #3 · answered by vannostrand 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually none of the things she mentions truly represent irony, that a song misusing the word became a #1 hit. now that's irony!
2007-02-06 05:42:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree. I remeber when the song was released, I was speaking with an English teacher and he was so annoyed that everything she mentions is bad luck
2007-02-06 05:36:49 · answer #5 · answered by godinfan 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What's so ironic is your trying to sound so erudite when, actually, you are from Alabama or Kentucky and only have two teeth. I guess your second cousin, twice removed, from your illegitimate parent's side, went to bed with a street beggar and a homeless person who scavenged the dumpsters. They must have conceived you.
I'm from Alabama, have my master's degree in math and PhD in Psychology and currently a professor at Harvard.
Don't put down any state. Kiss my grits!!
This is in response to your answer about a person concerned about their infant only having two teeth.
2007-02-08 05:31:03 · answer #6 · answered by Oenophile... (Lynn) 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
whats ironic is she wasnt a one hit wonder
2007-02-06 06:00:55 · answer #7 · answered by magalia hillbillies 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh yeah
2007-02-06 05:39:52 · answer #8 · answered by tootalll12 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i also think that
her lyrics r stupid
2007-02-06 05:46:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋