<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> "Ironic" was written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, and produced by the former for her third studio album, Jagged Little Pill (1995). In an interview with Christopher Walsh of Billboard, Ballard explained how he and Morissette met, and how "Ironic" was written . He commented: "I'm telling you, within 15 minutes we were at it--just writing .' Ironic' was the third song we wrote . Oh God, we were just having fun . I thought' I don't know what this is--what genre it is--who knows? It's just good"'. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com, it is a song set in the time signature of common time, composed in a moderate tempo of eighty - two beats per minute . It is set in the key of B major with Morissette's vocal range from the tone of E to B ♭, and "Ironic" chord progression starts with the sequence of Emaj7--F ♯ 6--Emaj7--F ♯ 6, before changing to F ♯--Badd2--F ♯--G ♯ m7 in the chorus . </P> <P> The song's usage of the word "ironic" attracted media attention for an improper application of the term; according to Jon Pareles of The New York Times, the song gives a distinct "unironic" sense in its implications . According to the Oxford English Dictionary "irony" is "a figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used". Thus, lyrics such as "It's like rain on your wedding day" and "A traffic jam when you're already late" are not ironic . Morissette commented about the writing of the song: "For me the great debate on whether what I was saying in' Ironic' was ironic wasn't a traumatic debate . I'd always embraced the fact that every once in a while I'd be the malapropism queen . And when Glen and I were writing it, we definitely were not doggedly making sure that everything was technically ironic". In 2014, Michael Reid Roberts penned for Salon.com a defense of the song's use of the term "ironic", as the song cites situational ironies, which is defined as the "state of affairs or event (s) that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result", as some of the situations described in the lyrics could in fact be said to be "ironic". </P> <P> Comedian Ed Byrne performed a skit in which he jokingly attacked the song for its lack of ironies: "The only ironic thing about that song is it's called' Ironic' and it's written by a woman who doesn't know what irony is . That's quite ironic ." Also, satirists Berger and Wyse parodied the song in one segment of their cartoon strip The Pitchers . In that episode, a superhero named "Irony Man" compared his superpowers to lyrics from Morissette's song, causing his cohorts to rename him "The Man from Alanis". In December 2009, the comedy website CollegeHumor released a spoof video of the song called "Actually Ironic", featuring actress Sarah Natochenny, in which Patrick Cassels amended the lyrics in a form that would be appropriately ironic . The CollegeHumor spoof was replicated in July 2013 by sisters Rachael and Eliza Hurwitz, from New York City, who published their version on YouTube . The sisters sing the line "We fixed it for you, Alanis . You're welcome ." throughout their "It's Finally Ironic" video . In his 2014 song "Word Crimes", "Weird Al" Yankovic references Morissette's lyrics by singing "Irony is not coincidence", and the music video for the song shows a fire truck burning (depicted as "Irony") compared with rain during a wedding (which is described as "Weather"). Morissette herself poked fun at her grammar mistakes during a 2013 performance of "Semicolon" with The Lonely Island on Jimmy Kimmel Live! . In it, Morissette cut off their song to explain that their use of hashtag rap to demonstrate the function of a semicolon is incorrect, to which they respond that her critiquing their grammar is "ironic". </P>

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