Friday, May 18, 2007

Music Friday Part II: Yglesias Is Right, Alanis I Am Sorry

Matt Yglesias on Alanis Morrisette's Ironic: "I have a longstanding contention that the not-actually-ironic nature of the various purported examples of irony in the song is the ironic part and not just some kind of coincidence." Alanis confirms here. For those of you who may have forgotten, here's a partial list of things spectacularly not ironic in Ironic (thereby properly making it ironic):
  1. It's a black fly in your chardonnay (a waste of $5 if you're fussy)
  2. It's a death row pardon two minutes too late (bad luck, bad phone connection, bad governance? In any case, more like a very special episode of Benson than irony)
  3. It's like rain on your wedding day (unfortunate)
  4. It's a free ride when you've already paid (dumb on the payers behalf)
  5. It's the good advice that you just didn't take (again, dumb. Always take good advice - even a 1st grader knows that.)
  6. It's a traffic jam when you're already late (the word here is frustrating, not ironic)
  7. It's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break (just go outside, really)
  8. It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife (I don't even know where to start here - where are you and what are you doing when this comes up? In any case, it's weird, not ironic)

2 comments:

Another John said...

Re #7:
Ah, the life of a submariner.
It figg'rs.

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