That song (which is insipid and bland) gets a bad rap for that. I’d argue that the song is indeed using irony effectively. irony is subjective: it tells you what the speaker believes to be a contradiction. the song says: these things are ironic; the implied presupposition is something like “everything turns out well like in a romance movie.”
STATEMENT: rain on your wedding day is ironic
PRESUPPOSITION: it should not rain on your wedding day bc that is a magical time
CONCLUSION: life is not ideal
I mean, it’s not a very deep conclusion, but it is logically defensible. anyway, if you’re in high school and you need an English paper topic, there you go.
sorta like how rain on your wedding day is ironic…
I would argue that all the examples in her song (which ironically aren’t very ironic), are more ironic than this.
her examples are ironic because she keeps saying they’re ironic, making you expect them to be ironic, and then defying that expectation….
Exactly
That song (which is insipid and bland) gets a bad rap for that. I’d argue that the song is indeed using irony effectively. irony is subjective: it tells you what the speaker believes to be a contradiction. the song says: these things are ironic; the implied presupposition is something like “everything turns out well like in a romance movie.”
I mean, it’s not a very deep conclusion, but it is logically defensible. anyway, if you’re in high school and you need an English paper topic, there you go.