It&#x27;s ironic that her song is named &quot;Ironic&quot; and yet every purported example of irony falls short of being <i>actual</i> irony.<p>And no I&#x27;m not ignoring Occam&#x27;s razor here...Morissette is a talented songwriter, which likely means she is also a decent student of literary technique...and even if she weren&#x27;t, what is the statistical probability that _all_ of the dozen or so &quot;ironic&quot; situations that she chose to enumerate in &quot;Ironic&quot; could fall short of irony in exactly the kind of way that annoys the shit out of everyone who knows the actual definition of irony?<p>(and no, I was not smart or cool enough to understand this at the time of the song&#x27;s popularity, or even the decade afterward...I&#x27;m pretty sure I read this insight off of Reddit or a blog&#x27;s comment section, which is probably itself an ironic thing)