By MAMAMIA ROGUE
If you were alive in the 90’s, you obviously had the Alanis Morissette album Jagged Little Pill. You also probably spent a considerable amount of time confused about what the word ‘ironic’ means, since Morissette managed to write an entire song about irony that had no actual examples of irony in it.
A 90’s fave and one of Morissette’s most famous songs, Ironic became one of the most famous examples of not listening in English class coming back to bite you on the arse. It was also the song that gave English nerds brain aneurysms as they yelled out things like “THAT’S NOT IRONIC IT’S JUST UNFORTUNATE.”
Well, good news everybody: two hilarious women – Rachael and Eliza Hurwitz – have rewritten the song Ironic… So that it’s actually, really, finally ironic.
This should be required viewing in all schools (and for anyone who grew up with Alanis):
Do you love the rewrite of Ironic as much as us?
Top Comments
I always thought it was ironic that the song wasn't ironic
Didn't we already do this back in 1995?
I mean we didn't have Facebook or Twitter then to spread our re-written version.
We might have had Usenet discussion communities, messageboards and newsgroups back then (in 1995) but users were few and far between so spreading memes as they are done now on social media was not the done thing.
But for some of us (read; nerds) we had this covered pretty much in msn or the early days of Yahoo's chats (when Yahoo shares were actually worth buying).
So this is nothing new, but you've made it out to be, and that's, well, ironic....
(don't you think?)