Perhaps it’s a masterpiece of humble self-reflection, as the only “irony” of the song is that nothing in it is actually ironic. Which begs a follow-up question: is the song a simple admission that she is of low intelligence? If so, it really is a masterful piece.
Some examples are ironic but the majority is just unfortunate. Having 10,000 some when you need a knife is just poor planning.
Ironic is a silly song by Alanis Morrisette is a good artist. Her songs "Hands Clean" and "You Oughta Know" are particularly visceral.
A little too gin tonic wrote:
Perhaps it’s a masterpiece of humble self-reflection, as the only “irony” of the song is that nothing in it is actually ironic. Which begs a follow-up question: is the song a simple admission that she is of low intelligence? If so, it really is a masterful piece.
I've been ragging on the song for years, saying that it should be called "Bummer", since the examples in the song are mostly just misfortune vs irony (e.g. who doesn't plan for inclement weather on their wedding day? too bad that death row pardon got held up too long by bureaucracy). So I was highly amused when the jukebox musical Jagged Little Pill made fun of the source material even better than I could - Alanis has a great sense of humor about the tune.
A little too gin tonic wrote:
Perhaps it’s a masterpiece of humble self-reflection, as the only “irony” of the song is that nothing in it is actually ironic. Which begs a follow-up question: is the song a simple admission that she is of low intelligence? If so, it really is a masterful piece.
The song made her a lot of money, she's dumbing all the way to da bank.
A little too gin tonic wrote:
Perhaps it’s a masterpiece of humble self-reflection, as the only “irony” of the song is that nothing in it is actually ironic. Which begs a follow-up question: is the song a simple admission that she is of low intelligence? If so, it really is a masterful piece.
i remember this conversation when jagged little pill came out and then that silly video.
similar to when weird al released his parody video.
similar to when vh-1's pop-up video said the same thing.
similar to the conversation when we all realised Evian spelled backwards is Naive.
youre hardly clever.
She created a song, and made so much money off of it that she'll never have to work again if she doesn't want to. If that's a sign of being stupid, I'd be glad to be a straight up moron.
This thread has been done at least twenty times before.
She wrote a song a day for about two weeks and became rich and famous to the point where people are still discussing it 28 years later.
What a dummy.
malmo wrote:
This thread has been done at least twenty times before.
Isn't that ironic?
Poetic license
get over it Ironically
or however the Fawk you want
Op's critique of the song is ironic.
A little too gin tonic wrote:
Perhaps it’s a masterpiece of humble self-reflection, as the only “irony” of the song is that nothing in it is actually ironic. Which begs a follow-up question: is the song a simple admission that she is of low intelligence? If so, it really is a masterful piece.
Yes. It is about her being stupid. You, are also stupid.