Alanis Morissette's song 'Ironic' often comes under fire from jaded, over-analytical hipsters determined to put their Bachelor's degree in English to good use and claim that the situations listed in the song are not actually ironic.
Now, I'm not going to go through the song line by line since some of them are sort of questionable, but I do want to defend the commonly called-out chorus:
It's like Ray-eyyyain on your wedding day...For some reason people like to point to this line as something that is not ironic, but they are wrong. Or at least simply not well-versed in traditional American wedding superstitions.
If it rains on your wedding day- congratulations, that's considered good luck. The superstition tells us that your marriage will be very successful. Of course, if you're so lucky, why are you and all your friends and family standing around in suits in the rain.
Rain + Wedding Day = Good Luck? Sounds kind of ironic. A little too ironic? Well, no, not really, since it was probably thought up to help calm down distraught, wet bride, but, yeah, ironic.
So now back to our smart ass friend who is dominating the happy hour conversation by calling out Ms. Morissette for not knowing the definitoon of a pretty simple word. He is, in fact, the dumbass, and by making said 'call out' he has done nothing but draw attention to his own stupidity.
Now isn't it ironic... and yes I really do think.
Dan
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