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 Post subject: At Last, Alanis Morissette Recognizes It's Not Ironic
PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2016 4:33 pm 
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For more than 20 years now, since the release of her hit “Ironic,” she’s had to hear every pedant, every SNOOT, and every 10th-grade English teacher crow that none of the situations in her song are actually ironic. The eternal question of rain-on-your-wedding-day has spawned two decades of thinkpieces (here’s the Times in 2008, Salon in 2014). “Ironic” even has a section on its Wikipedia page entitled “Linguistic usage disputes.” It’s hard to even talk about the literary device now without hearing someone lament the song. Irony, apparently, was described by Socrates, animated by Shakespeare and O. Henry, and killed by a 1995 radio hit. RIP.

Thankfully now Morissette may be free. Last night November*, she went on James Corden’s Late Late Show to reveal a new version of “Ironic” updated for modern situations. (“It’s a traffic jam… when you tried to use Waze.”) And, most importantly, it included this admission:

It’s singing “Ironic”
When there are no ironies


Here’s the video:


http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/0 ... ic/481875/


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 Post subject: At Last, Alanis Morissette Recognizes It's Not Ironic
PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2016 4:38 pm 
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 Post subject: At Last, Alanis Morissette Recognizes It's Not Ironic
PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:52 pm 
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Don't give a crap. To this day I still say ♫ Don't you think ♪ everytime someone says the word ironic.

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 Post subject: At Last, Alanis Morissette Recognizes It's Not Ironic
PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 6:08 pm 
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Wasn't that the joke all along?


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 Post subject: At Last, Alanis Morissette Recognizes It's Not Ironic
PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 6:19 pm 
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There wasn't a whole lot of humor on Jagged Little Pill (part of the reason for its success I think), so I doubt it.

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