In this context, we believe it's fair to say that Ms Morissette misuses and abuses irony in the most vicious and terrifying way. This section of the website is not intended to demean Alanis, or the song itself.
We simply wish to examine and discuss the various examples of irony she identifies. Taking the song as a whole, a reasonable question would be to ask whether it is ironic that a song about irony incorrectly identifies irony.
Indeed, Alanis herself allegedly said the following:. Ironic, huh? A little bit of irony, a lot of self-centric posturing, and that strangulated yodel thing she does with her voice.
Sometimes irony requires an understanding of the subject that the reader my not possess, for example:. I wish I had the sneezlbat of Winkadeel, because then every one would realize what a truly great person I am.
Without understanding what both sneezlbat and Winkadeel mean the irony is lost. However change the sentence ever so slightly and you get:. I wish I had the morals of Paris Hilton, because then every one would realize what a truly great person I am. This brings up two of my favorite terms to describe irony….
Oh, come on. Seems to me that she decided after-the-fact that her examples of irony were in and of themselves ironic just to save face. Listen to the performance and you can hear the earnestness and lack of detachment. Ed Byrne, an Irish comedian does a wonderful little skit on this song… it includes the bit about being in a cutlery factory when needing a knife.
A no-smoking sign in a cigarette factory — irony. I so totally agree. The last sentence got me! Greywolf you hit it home. Given those facts, I can definately see how many people can become confused about ironies. The final and most amusing to me layer of irony encompassing "Isn't it ironic" is the meta-irony regarding the nature of its irony.
The utter failure of the intended goal of creating a literal laundry list of ironic things that wound up being an ideal embodiment at irony specifically for its lack of irony It's almost too much to bear. For these reasons, "Isn't It Ironic" is one of my favorite songs ever. In the video, directed by the veteran Diane Martel, three models dressed in transparent thongs peacock and pose with a baffling array of props a lamb, a banjo, a bicycle, a four-foot-long replica of a syringe while Thicke, the producer and one of the co-writers Pharrell Williams, and the rapper T.
When you go to the airport, you see two kinds of security rules. Some apply equally to everyone; no one can carry weapons through the TSA checkpoint. But other protocols divide passengers into categories according to how much of a threat the government thinks they pose. If you submit to heightened scrutiny in advance, TSA PreCheck lets you go through security without taking off your shoes; a no-fly list keeps certain people off the plane entirely.
Not everyone poses an equal threat. The same principle applies to limiting the spread of the coronavirus. The number of COVID cases keeps growing, even though remarkably safe, effective vaccines are widely available, at least to adults. Many public agencies are responding by reimposing masking rules on everyone. But at this stage of the pandemic, tougher universal restrictions are not the solution to continuing viral spread. While flying, vaccinated people should no longer carry the burden for unvaccinated people.
The White House has rejected a nationwide vaccine mandate —a sweeping suggestion that the Biden administration could not easily enact if it wanted to—but a no-fly list for unvaccinated adults is an obvious step that the federal government should take.
It will help limit the risk of transmission at destinations where unvaccinated people travel—and, by setting norms that restrict certain privileges to vaccinated people, will also help raise the stagnant vaccination rates that are keeping both the economy and society from fully recovering. Tony Judt said that there is darkness in this world, and that darkness often triumphed—and liberated me to do the same. I always find it hard to list the books that have influenced me the most.
Moreover, people who set as their job the task of judging what others do, and why, are not always reliable when turning the lens upon themselves. Still, on that changing list there are a few mainstays.
Having, at that time, read very little of Tony, I was left with the impression of an intellectual monk who eschewed the dictates of party or crowd.
It was my mistake. It was my loss. If your reaction to this news is something like, Wait a second, what?
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