Ironic - Alanis Morissette (lyrics on screen)

Here is a lyric video for the song 'Ironic' by Alanis Morissette. I hope you enjoy :)

[@namjoonswifey12418]

i remember listening to this song when i was younger and i just found it again and have on repeat❤️

[@beverlybird5728]

Same 🥰😅

[@JoAnneQ564]

SAME LOL :)

[@Splingz]

My english teacher blasted it this morning because we were learning about irony

[@ruthnilsson4765]

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[@deewilson888]

Oh good, I’m not the only freak who does that. 😅👍🏻

[@YouTubeLate]

My English teacher had to use this song as an example of what irony isn’t when we were learning about rhetorical devices.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

When this song came out, there was a professor who ranted about how it really wasn't ironic, just a bunch of bummers. No one cared, or ever thought about him again.

[@matthewmarsh1733]

I always thought that's the point of the song.

[@Nobody46890]

@@CurlyFromTheSwirly you did tho, isn't it ironic? 😂

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

@@Nobody46890 😹

[@nunyabizwacks6711]

be as it may, the song still represents irony better than the majority of ppl when they are talking these days....theres this MASS wave of ppl using the word ironic when they should be using sarcastic. i just dont get it. see it 10x a day if i scroll thru many comments on here or elsewhere. ESPECIALLY on YT. seems 95% of the community have no idea what irony is

[@weltschmertzz]

I can certainly relate to this song. Grew up neglected and financially wanting. Didn't go to prom because parents didn't want to pay for dress. They had money but didn't want to spend it on me. So I always considered myself poor. The few times they took me to the grocery store, I felt so happy and rich. I waited my whole life to move to another country to be able to live a life free from financial insecurity to my dream job. Studied hard, never flunked a subject, graduated Cum Laude, took Master's degree while working, graduated Cum Laude, garnered enough experience, applied to New Zealand, put off telling people I know that I got a contract abroad to account for superstitious beliefs, took care of every needed paperwork and preparation, got my flight ticket then told everybody that mattered. A few days before my flight, the airport shut down due to Coronavirus but New Zealand was still open. When my country's airport became functional, New Zealand closed to immigrants. Still is until now. Now I'm unemployed and almost homeless. Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

[@reble8968]

I'm sorry fam. Hope things work out eventually

[@lucchinigianni6709]

Stay strong, we are in the same boat

[@Vivi-ij5sr]

Hug

[@dtangent]

What’s the status? Did you finally go?!

[@2fresh166]

Hey just checking. Did u go?

[@gabriellaguevara6713]

Just heard about my childhood best friend from kindergarten class pasted away, with her husband and son. The song Ironic from Alanis Morissette was a song we grew up with. Although we lost touch, my heart breaks for her. I know they will never stop; however, I know my childhood best friend, you are are on my side.

[@supersonico9364]

“Life has a funny, funny way helping u out, helping u out...” 💕

[@mattandrew4664]

👁👅👁

[@Starrrycandy]

Yes an old man dying after winning the lottery, being late for work, and a father dying in a plane crash is really helpful 😬

[@dennismclaurin1487]

It has a funny way of helping you out, alright.As soon as I walk into a store-'May I help you?' They would rather help me out of the store.

[@joshuashultz6173]

This should be the national anthem for COVID-19

[@mace_inc.8455]

I was just about to enjoy my last months of senior year and graduation, setting up my plans on finally getting a date for prom, when well... Out of all things a pandemic happens. Life has its funny ways.

[@MS-ly4mx]

MACE_Inc. At least you don’t live in the southern part of this world like me. I couldn’t even start my senior year. I’m so sad right now thinking I’m losing a time in my life that will never come back.

[@abhijitmohite6475]

Well said..It means we might have some solution around the corner...hope

[@mace_inc.8455]

Ok_ Yikes, I feel for you. Try and savor every bit of life as much as possible, even though all of us are in hard times right now. Yes, the pandemic has taken away a significant part of your life, but the pandemic has no right to take away your freedom and joy to experience more of life’s moments in the future.

[@traviamcdade2426]

lol

[@simply-living8523]

I dread going to work all the time and this song was stuck in my head all day and it just turned into a really good day isn’t it ironic ?

[@demiurgoperez8749]

Still, that is not irony.

[@codybrewer4326]

This song never gets old

[@omnistpagan3282]

It gets older by the minute. Oh you were trying to be funny.

[@Bunhun2]

@@omnistpagan3282 and you trying to be ironic..? Hahaha

[@alyssascott1601]

It's meeting the man of my dream's, and then meeting his beautiful wife ....isn't it ironic ....😔😒😒

[@That1CoffeeAddict]

No it's sad

[@mafiawashere9872]

Ironic and Really sad

[@enelmartodoesfelicidad]

Your profile pic have a man, stop trying...Lol jk

[@Vladimyrful]

That's not irony.

[@curiousguy8581]

@@Vladimyrful it is irony

[@garyklafta3411]

THAT MURPHY'S LAW IN ACTION - A BASIC LAW OF LIFE IN THE WORLD .

[@fairy1841]

I love just shouting "ITS LIKE RAAAAAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY" whenever I feel like it

[@avotheking5463]

haha me 2 lunch me: ITS LIKE RAAAAAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY

[@thatquirkyfairygirl101]

@Alex-Sans_TheCreator obv 😒

[@carlosbarahona8609]

O.k. let me join you lol😂

[@108zam]

they honestly don’t make songs like this anymore . just so good

[@deewilson888]

Isn’t it ironic?

[@nohandlepls]

Lorde just recently dropped secrets of a girl and I thought that track had this 90s anthem vibe.

[@kevinforslund52]

70s,80s, 90s and earlly 2000 was honestly the best years for music

[@iwatchyoutube6539]

Oh shut up. Good music is everywhere, you just can't find it

[@froeloe]

@@deewilson888 hahaha. one of the best comments i’ve read in 10 years. and i read hundreds/thousands of comments and analyze social media comments for a living. very ironic indeed.

[@VigilanteAgumon]

Reddit brought me here. Someone mentioned this song in regards to an article about a sprinkler company being destroyed by a fire.

[@LeSchuskel]

Wowww that's ironic...

[@cathyjolivet4249]

Multnomah Falls, a waterfall in Oregon, was destroyed by fire.

[@Sun_shiner11]

Buzz feed brought me here

[@kook730]

That's an example of situational irony

[@michaelgibson413]

Mine was a liberal commenting the link to this under a post on how trump got rona

[@coryjamieson3171]

This song gives me nostalgic vibes, I love 90s and 2000s music. It's the stuff I grew up with!

[@Smileyyy21]

My new favorite song. The older I get the more sense irony makes to me. I'm so glad that I've learned about forgiveness if not I'd be in jail. Lol.

[@tanyanoreenvillaviejaelumb4991]

What hit me most: "It's the Good Advice that you just Can't Take..😔😕"

[@nikitaglaus3660]

It's the Good Advice that you just "Didn't" Take

[@alexabrackett5052]

@@nikitaglaus3660 🤦‍♀️

[@valentinafariello5733]

I was going do get my degree in March, after 1 year of waiting. Due to Covid lockdown it has slipped AGAIN. I needed this song.

[@priscila187]

Absolutely love this song, life is an irony indeed

[@Scyllax]

Events may have ironic characteristics. Life is not irony.

[@christiangasior4244]

Yeah most things she sings about aren’t ironic

[@ickodelight5551]

I came here after Impulse and Gem's "Isn't it an Iron pick?"

[@Aiden-xn6wo]

Me too.

[@yourfriendlach]

Thanks to Impulse, I will have this song in my head for the next year...

[@sarrahcea6889]

This is timeless. 🤗

[@CLE4LIFE]

Her voice is so amazing

[@Lucylucee_96]

🎵🎶🎶🎶

[@heatherjohnson6672]

Perfect delivery.

[@ajobeidallah4210]

I LOVE Alanis Morrisette She's so fantastic and her voice Is incredible We love you Miss Morrisette.

[@netnetmathis3089]

I love Alanis Morrisette💝😎 music🎶💖🌟🎤

[@PyroMynx]

Best one: "Meeting the man of my dreams, and then meeting his beautiful his beautiful wife." Especially if the wife is a genuinely good person, and there's NOTHING to dislike about her AND they're perfect for each other because you can see it. This is where you just take your L and move on. There's someone else for you.

[@debradelongchamps8586]

I agree 💯, but it sure is ironic 😏

[@sunnirobertson4316]

There was a girl She practiced her talent show performance For hours each day Than on the day of the show A pandemic swoops in one hour before the show The show is cancelled And the girl says “isn’t it ironic” Talking about myself

[@OHYS]

This isn’t ironic

[@mdlove9]

I'm so sorry. I have a feeling your performance is awesome

[@sunnirobertson4316]

@@mdlove9 tysm

[@sunnirobertson4316]

@@OHYS lol

[@billydog55]

Stay limber. Your time is coming

[@agustinamansur5665]

This song makes me teary eyed😢 I don't why, but it's special ❤

[@purpwillis6124]

I thought I was the only one 🥺🤗💕

[@dakotafrost8647]

To know this was my moms favorite song when she was my age and I'm 17 and shes 37 😂 now it's one of my favorites

[@aleksstan7009]

loved it the first time I heard it as a 11 year old and still love it today. over the years I started to understand what that Song meant the more I grow up. Iconic song

[@purpwillis6124]

Exactlyyy!! Waking up to it evry morning before school. But now it means so much!!!! And isn’t that ironic!!!

[@vjmcgovern]

the song’s not iconic. its ironic :) :)

[@adambuckley2270]

Wait...is the irony that a song about irony doesn't have examples that are actually ironic?

[@NominalistWay]

Either the song has at least one example that is actually ironic or not at all. If the song doesn't have examples that are actually ironic, then the song's name is ironic (according to your opinion). But then the song has at least one example that is actually ironic - its name. Hence it is not the case that the song doesn't have examples that are actually ironic. If the song has at least one example that is actually ironic, then it is not the case that the song doesn't have examples that are actually ironic. Either way, it is not the case that the song doesn't have examples that are actually ironic. Isn't it too ironic?

[@garrettchristensen2912]

this was a disneyland song in 2019 on the way to it on the radio

[@Teng_Siat_Hwa]

It's meeting the man of your dreams and meeting his beautiful wife

[@alexajulianna2424]

wdym

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Or meeting the woman of your dreams and she says she's married.

[@isahrodrigues5929]

@@CurlyFromTheSwirly OMG this si really so bad

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

@@isahrodrigues5929 yes 😔

[@Scyllax]

No, meeting his beautiful husband is ironic.

[@x3oth157]

Two thing that ironic about this is that the song isn’t ironic even tho the music is talking about the word irony and the second one is that the music theme is a happy noise but the lyric is about something sad so that ironic as well

[@Glowmoff]

@@mangomochiii actually, situational irony is a circumstance where an action is taken to obtain a specific goal, but the action undertaken leads to the exact opposite outcome being realised. For example (taken from vsauce's michael) an elevator in an elevator repair school being out of order BECAUSE they tried to make it run more efficiently.

[@daviddolnics726]

Well "hard luck" wouldn't sound so well in the lyrics

[@Glowmoff]

@@mangomochiii in your original comment "actually! This song demonstrates a type of irony called situational irony" and "considering every phrase is situational irony"

[@Glowmoff]

@@daviddolnics726 true, that's fair

[@Glowmoff]

@@mangomochiii in that case you keep at that, but I'm not one to ignore facts.

[@tasmanianmagpie6056]

Me, listening to the first verse: Why is it so slow and sad? Chorus: *starts, surprising me * Me: I just had to open my mouth...

[@RNKel1]

Same first I heard it

[@Loganworthw]

Irony is toy dinosaurs being made of actual dinosaurs

[@paranoidandroid4709]

Dantelius you mean like fósil fuels?

[@chickentail7108]

That’s not irony

[@kdeggraham895]

Oh wow that is...

[@calebsawyer0719]

@@kdeggraham895 What is this song about, I wonder?

[@kdeggraham895]

@@calebsawyer0719 yeah.. 👀😂

[@nt_raven9562]

"He died the next day" yeah he died cuz he had a heart attack from winning

[@kx0xo]

He was 98

[@keoniaupchurch1386]

Omg 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I like u

[@ospreyphil8995]

You know what’s really ironic? Ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise??

[@michaelgibson413]

Nicely done

[@kaya1730]

💖

[@Dankschon]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@violetdust8960]

I understood that referance. 😎

[@Human-gu2cx]

It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you

[@mastasnake3732]

I was 13 years old when this song came out. And i still come back to it. And listen it 4-5 time in a row.

[@vespii]

Isnt it rad that they banned this song on the radio in america cause of 9/11 :3? wonder why?

[@PaoloEstrada]

Who’s listening in April 2020 during covid-19 pandemic?

[@bongwater2919]

Paolo Estrada yup.

[@jerryjackson4197]

I was gonna like your comment but it's at 69 rn and I don't wanna change that.

[@Laylabelle97]

2:34 Meeting the man of your dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife :)

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Meeting the woman of your dreams and she says she's married.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

@@Melina_Evarblume_Seelie, happens to guys too.

[@adonshaw8832]

I was introduced to this song by my English teacher ( who is also headteacher/principal) and she played it and said “guys, this isn’t irony so don’t write about it if you don’t 100% know how to use it” and it made me laugh so much

[@Scyllax]

The irony is that there is nothing ironic, but the claim that the situations are ironic.

[@krila3978]

It's Situational Irony, inferring that the situations are ironic because of the juxtaposition between words. It's funny in a sad way. It IS irony, just not traditional (dramatic) irony. Just look at the "Smoking break - NO SMOKING sign."

[@Scyllax]

@@krila3978 It is not ironic. You are just wrong. The only irony is that the whole song has no ironic descriptions in it, but it claims to. That is the situational irony.

[@krila3978]

@@Scyllax You can believe what you'd like, just as I will.

[@Scyllax]

@@krila3978 You can believe dogshit tastes like pumpkin pie. You are still wrong.

[@uniquelyautisticlyemma1789]

I just have one thing to say about this song, isn’t it iconic, don’t you think? Okay, that was an awful pun but I hoped you liked it anyway.

[@bernardoheusi6146]

I liked It a lot

[@unitedcoloursofAfg]

Awesome pun! :)

[@Zack_1327]

It was worth the effort and humorous. You've done quite well actually

[@hollycapps7905]

Yeah same I liked it a lot 🤣❤ very punny. Good job

[@micahmcallister5554]

I don’t know you, but I hate you now.

[@darkBringer990]

I got recommended this song from a module talking about Hyperbole and Irony.

[@osechika]

Lol same here

[@jennie4538]

lol same. grade 6 student here! haha

[@geocarldominicb.bobita9727]

Same

[@geocarldominicb.bobita9727]

How

[@kashi7083]

Same grade 6 student here

[@patricklewis2745]

Great song with great meaning.

[@mycosanpedro1309]

Black Mirror : San Junipero, brought me here. LOL

[@TheNeroVDG]

Best episode

[@ericfanatic3238]

U ALL DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS SONG HAS BEEN STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR YEARS AND I FINALLY FOUND IT!!!!

[@ambermiller1321]

Irony is a dog getting run over by an animal resuce van.

[@abbypowers6734]

Yeah did that happen to you

[@abbypowers6734]

Yeah did that happen to you

[@bp1991able]

yeah it's too cruel not to be funny!

[@platelett5958]

“Dark humor is like clean water, not everyone gets it”

[@platelett5958]

Dark humor, I like it

[@petedunne_2544]

"It's like 10,000 spoons..when all you need is a knife"..I say that at least once a week!!😄

[@VioletEmerald]

Lol why?

[@JoAnneQ564]

@@VioletEmerald cause it always happineds

[@Rodd-ru8el]

Definitely the best lyric in the song 😆

[@maryjoyheredia]

2022 and still listening to this masterpiece

[@vespii]

i love that they banned this song after 9/11.. wonder why :3?

[@calzv1487]

yeah but 2023

[@omnistpagan3282]

In the year 3045 people with still be saying crap like I totally belonged in the 2000s. I was born in the wrong era. It will be only as slightly as annoying as comments announcing the year that you decided to listen to a random KZbin vid as if you’re making history. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@name-fc5nn]

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[@name-fc5nn]

Chris

[@princepompeii]

This song has a special place in my heart and mind...the memories 😢 😊

[@mixmastermike2128]

ironc, isnt it? how a happy ol' memory can bring about a tear

[@kelkishan]

i’m listening to alanis remind old songs when i was little kid

[@jrspringston]

"the irony of this wouldn't be lost on Alanis Morissette" - Mozzie

[@MsReny1981]

This song just played again in my head in my 40's, I used to have this album and sang it when I was young...one of the best album ever had..

[@ItsJustPoetry]

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOO VERY MUCH FOR MAKING THIS SONG, IT WAS SUCH AN INSPIRATION TO ME AT EARLY AGE, I CAN NEVER THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR WHAT THIS TAUGHT ME!

[@rainbowgaming4692]

me at work making coffee then suddenly me: ITS LIKE RAAAAAAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAAAAY

[@seekeroflight3310]

I loved this song when I was small...(",)Philippines

[@annjulee500]

Never thought of life as a “funny” place...but a sadistic and a fucked up place is more like it. If anything at all, its that one nightmarish pitch black place you might find yourself stranded at...with a thousand spoons within reach all around you...when ALL you need is just ONE damn knife.

[@JasonX00]

Absolutely love Alanis. Cannot wait for November when she tours here🤗😎👍

[@bernardoheusi6146]

Here where?

[@jennethpunayan5838]

Our teacher said that we listen to this song because this is on our class topic

[@skepticseptic1932]

same

[@roadkill6330]

but... its not irony...

[@218nicci]

it's a life topic...

[@nicholasduncan3472]

same

[@Scyllax]

What is, "fucking up"?

[@jeffreyferral3827]

The good advice you just didn't take.........I'm 65 there's been alot. ❤️

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

People older than that do the same

[@codenamemagenta3169]

Came here after Howard Stern's show of Alanis's dropping that this song was meaningful because she only liked the chorus haha but i like everything!!! One of the many songs on a car ride down that hill Dec. 30, 2020 Happy New Year!

[@agioni99]

Still seems like yesterday. Miss you my little Bro. R.I.P.

[@sarabaker6204]

Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn brought me here

[@supernatural2029]

the good songs never gets old!!

[@sarah_okay7295]

Iorny is celebrating for 2020 and having a huge party thinking covid wont come here! And then got COVID January 1

[@amytattersfield2017]

Anyone Come Here From Hermitcraft Season 9??

[@strawberrymilc.]

I was about to send my resignation letter last March because I don't wanna work anymore when the pandemic strikes. Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

[@jeffreystewart9809]

Similar situation happened to me. Quit my job a week before it all hit. Wanted my weekends to myself and got several months instead.

[@strawberrymilc.]

Fyi, I did not resign. Thankfully, I still got my work even if I hate it. I got no choice but to continue until I could get back on my feet again.

[@enelmartodoesfelicidad]

@@strawberrymilc. lol same happened to me... but a lot of people got fired where I work...and they really need the job...I need my job too but i wanna be reckless, now I have to wait😅😅 #ihatemyjobbutineedtowork

[@nicolepaulk3537]

I sat on buying a new car for a while. Didn't wanna take the jump, even though I had two well paying jobs. Something got in me and I finally took the jump and bought the car that I'd been eyeing. Three weeks later the pandemic hit wide open and I was laid off from both jobs.

[@KabsatMoto]

@@jeffreystewart9809 exactly the same thing happened to me. Quit my job then after couple of weeks the pandemic and locked down happened. I was jobless for months, luckily got hired and I f*cki*g value it now 😁

[@chancethompson1277]

I remember this song 😊

[@chancethomson8716]

Me too! 😊

[@chloecollins6884]

It's like rain, on your wedding day It's a free ride when you've already payed

[@kingdante1013]

stephanie collins it’s the good advice that you just can’t take

[@IntuitionPlanet]

Who would of thought it figures

[@mahranislam3554]

Lasagna is spaghetti flavored cake, Pineapples don't grow on lakes

[@kingdante1013]

Real Comms mr play it safe was afraid to fly

[@mahranislam3554]

@@kingdante1013 You broke the chain of pinapples

[@spacestationz]

Don't be ashamed if you're here cause of impulse, as am I. Let's groove yall

[@strumalong3224]

great tune and easy to strum along with!

[@michaeldestefano5165]

This is the National Anthem of my Life

[@townsendadrianarmani]

Thos song is the most quintessential song of my adolescent young adult life! Long live Jagged Little Pill! #Anthemofmychildhood

[@andreapatane4204]

I dedicate this song to Raven Symone. 👏🏻

[@xaviersmith5154]

Why Raven symone

[@carlwebber4094]

Who?

[@kronemerj]

Also raven Symone is still alive.

[@graceskye4693]

@@carlwebber4094 olo9ol l⁹

[@graceskye4693]

@@kronemerj ll

[@imaginewagons267]

I'm sorry but who's here in march 2020

[@kandmgachaplayz6200]

Present!!!

[@daviddolnics726]

Today is my friend's wedding day, the whole week was raining, keep Your fingers crossed brothers, let him have this one

[@daviddolnics726]

Update, all went well

[@huma19]

Me

[@marketsmoto3180]

you motorboatin son of a bitch!

[@avam6600]

this is for school😃👍🏼

[@videoboy80s38]

Yess it is 😭😭

[@dominickrodriguez2302]

Alaen you are such a sweet poet, I love your songs because they have lifted up my Spirits.

[@clarkstone439]

" "Mr Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly. He packed his suitcase, and kissed his kids goodbye. See he waited his whole life to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down, he thought 'isnt this nice' " That... is absurd... and i love it

[@vjmcgovern]

I love this song, Alanis Morissette is my biggest inspiration! I love her amazing voice! I am wanted in 36 countries for various accounts of manslaughter.

[@GenderWoman666]

In this text is "WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT", not some "would of thought"...

[@ignaciojoelnexlsoncanas29]

I know right...

[@peterdaviesracing]

Common annoying mistake, just like the posts that mix up "there" and their". Also, it was actually not the only mistake, "it's the good advice that you just couldn't take" should've been "it's the good advice that you just didn't take".

[@GenderWoman666]

@@peterdaviesracing Exactly. I know the lyrics by heart and there was something wrong to me too xD Btw how is possible to mix up "there" and their" :O

[@MercSamurai09]

Wrestlemania 37 haș a live crowd after a year. It rains before the show begins and it's delayed. Isn't it ironic?

[@maryjanemartireztacloyan848]

I heard this song or i should say im a teenage girl when i first hear all the song of alanis and i really like it all of her song has an imfact to me alanis song was really one of the most fav. Of mine in musics that i have heard at my teenage life of mine and until now i still listening and keep on listening to alanis song "ALANIS DONT COMB HER HAIR. WHY SHOUL I.??????😍😍🤗

[@missaussiedoggify6]

Wow, never even noticed that O.o Thank you :)

[@mysteriousmimick5172]

Anyone else here after showing their dad the Bo Bunrnham song so he suggests another old song that turns out to be a bop

[@xAskAp]

Still listening to this ironic/iconic! song in July 2022!! Greetings to you, beautiful People!

[@jessedavis1741]

Her voice is just perfect!!!

[@shanefolan]

Many of Morissette's examples are inaccurately called 'not ironic' when in actual fact they are. Go on any forum and you will see people say the examples are not irony when they actually are; it's just that irony can be subtle when people are looking for striking examples one sees in Shakespeare plays. So 'rain on your wedding day is irony because one expects the latter to be sunshine. Likewise, 'traffic jam when you're already late' is also ironic in that one expects late people to be driving hard and in a rush and not sitting stalled. Or the one about dying the day after winning the lotto is clear irony as one expects life to change for the better after such an event yet this guy's life ends. Or the 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife is also ironic as your automatic reaction of seeing an abundance of cutlery is that you'll get at least one of everything somewhere. The Chardonnay reference is also misunderstood irony as the latter is an expensive upmarket drink one connects to fortune and class like expensive Champagne yet the dirty fly getting into the glass taints this perfection as flies are dirty and common and not connected to the nice things in life and so this perfect moment of sipping the fine wine is not as expected. We'd connect a fly getting into a drink more like at a cheap picnic and not in the upmarket hotel sipping our expensive drink. As is meeting the man of your dreams which is associated with getting together and having a happy life together but again the beautiful wife he has stops this. Because so many of us are lead to believe that one day we will meet the right one we really like which is what does happen in many cases but the cruel irony is often that the feeling is not returned and there is no ''happily ever after'' ending that we are lead to believe as children from stories, movies, and society. The reality of 'Love/marriage' is often divorced[excuse the pun] from the expectations we have of it in that the ''man of your dreams'' is often far from what people settle for. So the irony in her song is clearly all about how our expectations in life are often not met and because of this, it's irony.

[@dextrane715]

Feels like you are stretching too much to help this, admittedly great, song. I always thought that it was far more clever than that. Its ironic that the song is called ironic doesn't have any real irony in it. The next level is that people keep thinking its not ironic because of the indirect examples, but in reality the song is ironic in not being ironic. Its a pretty fun loop.

[@JoseManuel-dh6iy]

@@dextrane715 I don't think it's a stretch. Irony is a sum of events that happen deliberately contrary to what one would expect and that is exactly what Shane explained here patiently, and I believe very rightly so.

[@threeleggedman]

Replace "Ironic" with "Disappointing" and the lyrics work. Rain on a wedding day is not ironic. Divorce on your wedding day is. Meeting man of your dreams wife is not ironic. Meeting his husband is.

[@JoseManuel-dh6iy]

@@threeleggedman ehh? rain on a wedding day is ironic because it's focusing the irony on the day of the wedding and how it would be expected to go... divorce would be focusing on the relation ship, both examples could be ironic, but are focusing on two different things... Also... 'husband' wouldn't have been a possibility in that time of U.S. or Canada because gay weddings weren't legal and again, both examples could be considered ironic but yours just changes the gender of the platonic love, the focus of Alanis' example is on the relationship status of not being single, and not just having a partner, but also being married...

[@threeleggedman]

@@JoseManuel-dh6iy There is no guarantee of a sunny wedding day since they get planned a year in advance. I play weddings and half of them are rainy, and have never sense irony from anyone. More like disappointment. Husband? Fine - then boyfriend. Wife - disappointing, boyfriend - Ironic!

[@brittnierene03]

I hope it rains on my wedding day... .... it's Good Luck👣🌠🔥🦅🙏💙⭐

[@justsurviving6916]

This was playing on the local radio for a week straight

[@kissaalvarez7275]

Timeless. Best song ever. Give me goosebumps 😂

[@258mr]

Me too baby

[@purpwillis6124]

Me too. Til this day 😩

[@dennismclaurin1487]

I have an urge to hear this song, on a whim.

[@Sesamebee300]

Irony, lies in the lyrics. She has a great voice and sends a message...before COVID-19 was ever an agenda.

[@nerzlea1642]

How ironic It's really hard for me to sing this song 🤣

[@a2point083]

Bro i can listen to this song millions of times and never get bored

[@ninjaslayer2821]

Who is here after their teacher showed them this🤣

[@shibareruprincess1024]

Me me

[@pkmindbreak848]

Same

[@DrSoon-el8gf]

ME! HAHAHA

[@ruthbcaniete1627]

Present..mam taw mohammad at the voice brings me here..hehe

[@jessapalomaria787]

yas HAHAHAHAHAU

[@WhitneyKKane-tj1dl]

1:11 what :) xd Absolutely love this song, life is an irony indeed Absolutely love this song, life is an irony indeed

[@jinzo637]

the Minute u hear " its like Rain!' n u cant help but sing to it haha

[@ihmdad]

I recall this song when it came out sparking debate is this really irony?’ Or something else? Well this debate continues as I type this comment, crying while listening to this song tonight recalling long ago a drive far away from my city with ex wife and first son when he was just 2 years old. Is this missing her, despite my having to divorce her for hurting me deeply, irony? The world may never know. Great tune, and memory, regardless. Thank you for posting the lyrics…

[@warlockgus618]

I am here because I saw this text in a meme... Gas Cheapest it's been in 30 years, can´t drive. Flights dirt cheap. can´t fly... We´re stuck in an Analisis Morissette song. March 2020

[@agustinamansur5665]

Irony is studying to become a Translator of English and loving German 😜😂

[@MichelleKiwiGirlCrawfordvocals]

Thanks for this useful lyrics video, I used this to prepare for my recent vocal cover!

[@channel13113]

This was one of my mom's favorite songs