There is a fine line between irony and simply unfortunate events. Most of the examples in the song you mentioned are simply unfortunate. "Alanis Morissette's popular 1995 song "Ironic" breathed new life into the ongoing controversy over the definition of irony. The song attracted a great deal of attention from prescriptivists for its (arguably) blatant misuse of the word ironic. Morissette's alleged misuses of the word include:
It's like a traffic jam/When you're already late
He won the lottery/And died the next day
Among those who assert that the song uses an invalid definition of irony, many find it ironic that Morissette would write a song titled "Ironic" with no actual irony in it."
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Date: 2005-05-22 05:18 pm (UTC)This should help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
A good example from there: "An avalanche awareness class caught in avalanche."
There is a fine line between irony and simply unfortunate events. Most of the examples in the song you mentioned are simply unfortunate.
"Alanis Morissette's popular 1995 song "Ironic" breathed new life into the ongoing controversy over the definition of irony. The song attracted a great deal of attention from prescriptivists for its (arguably) blatant misuse of the word ironic. Morissette's alleged misuses of the word include:
It's like a traffic jam/When you're already late
He won the lottery/And died the next day
Among those who assert that the song uses an invalid definition of irony, many find it ironic that Morissette would write a song titled "Ironic" with no actual irony in it."