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beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Rain on your wedding day isn't, in itself, ironic - BUT a song titled "Ironic" getting the very concept of irony wrong, that is the very core of irony, so... well done.

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Rain on your wedding day isn't, in itself, ironic - BUT a song titled "Ironic" getting the very concept of irony wrong, that is the very core of irony, so... well done.

beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world
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    The meta is strong with this 28 year old song.

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      i never thought of this in that way before. it is meta squared

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    The stand up bit that launched a career.

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      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      The stand up bit that launched a career.

      Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

      I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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    The whole song is ironic, if you imagine the singer is supposing a story tale quality to her life. It’s unexpected (and therefore ironic) if I expect my life to turn out perfectly, but then other normal and expected things occur that prevent my fantasy from materializing.

    • criitz@reddthat.com
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      This. Everything in the song is ironic if you think about it the right way.

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    I first heard this joke on a very butch lesbian’s stand up special in comedy central like 15 years ago. I think about it every time I hear the song.

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    I prefer the 10,000 Spoons edit.

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      I knew exactly what the song would be before I tapped the link… But I definitely wasn’t expecting the video with it, that was incredible. Managed to improve on what was already a masterpiece.

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      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      10,000 Spoons

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      Was not expecting that. Had a good many laughs. Thanks!

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    dontcha think

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    As others have pointed out - there are plenty of things in the song that actually are ironic. So what’s ironic is people keep complaining about the lack of irony in a song called “Ironic” when it’s actually got irony in it.

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      I forget who it’s from, but this attitude reminds me of the quote: “Most of the ingredients in this soup aren’t even turds, so what are people complaining about?”

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    No 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife

    Man waited his whole damn life to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down, he though, “Well isn’t this nice”

    Those are both irony.

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