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You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, so nothing useful to contribute, Alanis Morissette is not a philosopher, she finally recognized that rain
by DonHopkins 3y ago
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, so nothing useful to contribute, Alanis Morissette is not a philosopher, she finally recognized that rain on your wedding day is not ironic, you were not "canceled", there is nothing ironic about your situation, and you are not the victim, as much as you try to play it in the "about" section of your hn user page: https://web.archive.org/web/20240415235814/https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hagbard_c https://web.archive.org/web/20240415235814/https://news.ycom...
Alanis Morissette Recognizes It's Not Ironic
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2016/05/alanis-morissette-recognizes-its-not-ironic/624060/ https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2016/05/alanis-m...
>Pour one out for Alanis Morissette.
>For more than 20 years now, since the release of her hit “Ironic,” she’s had to hear every pedant, every SNOOT, and every 10th-grade English teacher crow that none of the situations in her song are actually ironic. The eternal question of rain-on-your-wedding-day has spawned two decades of thinkpieces (here’s the Times in 2008, Salon in 2014). “Ironic” even has a section on its Wikipedia page entitled “Linguistic usage disputes.” It’s hard to even talk about the literary device now without hearing someone lament the song. Irony, apparently, was described by Socrates, animated by Shakespeare and O. Henry, and killed by a 1995 radio hit. RIP.
>Thankfully now Morissette may be free. Last night November*, she went on James Corden’s Late Late Show to reveal a new version of “Ironic” updated for modern situations. (“It’s a traffic jam… when you tried to use Waze.”) And, most importantly, it included this admission:
It’s singing “Ironic”
When there are no ironies
I liked Alanis Morissette better on You Can't Do That on Television, when even then (unlike you) she had the integrity to admit she didn't know:
https://youtu.be/B1Q55CLrTkg?t=184 https://youtu.be/B1Q55CLrTkg?t=184
- hagbard_c 3y agoYou seem to be missing some insight into the reason why I call A. Morissette a 'well-known philosopher' so I'll give you a hint: maybe it is just for the reasons you so eloquently quoted from that Atlantic article?