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Isn't It Ironic?

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Isn't It Ironic?	comment	This is what happens when a song with lyrics which are intended to be ironic is (ironically) used unironically in the soundtrack of a show, demonstrating either ignorance or willful misuse by the producers. Commercials are major offenders. The worst examples of that so far happened when Smash Mouth's "Walkin' on the Sun" became a jingle for Mercury, and General Mills' rewrite of Melanie Safka's "What Have They Done to My Song, Ma" to "Look What They Done to My Oatmeal". A similar effect is when a song with an upbeat melody is used as background music in upbeat scenes despite having very dark lyrics. This sort is also Soundtrack Dissonance of the other kind. Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" and, as a parody, Eric Idle (of Monty Python)'s "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" are examples. Why does this happen? In many cases, the Dissonance comes between the first verse and the second, or between the verses and the chorus. The problem is that the first verse and chorus are the parts most people remember about a song and the parts most producers use. Sometimes, they only know and use the chorus. In many examples (especially the commercials), the lyrics that cause the dissonance will be excised, leaving only the beat/melody and the more famous individual lines. Once they've got you humming the melody, the song has done its work in associating itself with their product and/or service. The rest of the lyrics don't matter (until you head off to the kitchen). This trope is named for the Alanis Morissette song "Ironic"; see our article on her for more on that. Death of the Author is a related idea, where people deliberately disregard the original song's intended meaning and replace it with their own interpretation. If the song is also sung by a different person than the original artist, it overlaps with The Cover Changes the Meaning. Compare Poe's Law and Repurposed Pop Song. Related to Analogy Backfire. Sometimes overlaps with Adaptational Context Change. Not to be confused with Dude, Not Ironic. This trope is about music only and should not be potholed as an equivalent to Take That!. There is a page about irony itself — what it actually means, and what the different types are — and it's called (fittingly) "Irony".
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_10813376	comment	Shortly after debuting her crazy girl gimmick, Victoria was given t.A.T.u.'s "All the Things She Said" as an entrance theme. While it was remixed to only use the lyrics "Yes, I've lost my mind," and "All the things she said running through my head," the song is about a girl panicking and losing her mind after realizing she's a lesbian.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_11f0805	comment	Then there was the jeans commercial that put videos of masculine men to the song "The Jean Genie" (Aladdin Sane). The only appropriate response is "You're all aware the song is about gay sex, right?"
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_12cd8dd3	comment	A promo for Toddlers & Tiaras used Lady Gaga's "Born This Way", a song about accepting who you are and not having to changeâ€¦ while showing shots of children around the age of five wearing makeup and false eyelashes. Then again, the show actually manages to have snarky editing, doing things like showing a pageant mom saying, "Oh, my little angel loves doing pageants!" and then cutting to the little girl bawling and begging not to do it anymore. So ironic music use fits right in.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_1af858b5	comment	"We Need a Little Christmas" from Mame is, not entirely surprisingly, often used as a Christmas song. However, in its original context in the musical, it's about the characters celebrating the holiday early in order to pick themselves up after losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_1e511d6f	comment	America's Funniest Home Videos music montages occasionally fall into this trap. One of the worst was the choruses (only the choruses) of David Bowie's "Young Americans" being used to underscore cute toddler clips. The song is a cynical look on life in America at the time, bringing up things like McCarthyism and black repression.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_1e703d1f	comment	Lampshaded in Gilmore Girls when Lorelai is going through Sookie's selections for her wedding to Jackson:
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_1f1809cb	comment	During his appearance on CPAC 2014, Rand Paul used Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" as his intro music. The song has its own entry in the "Music" folder to explain exactly why a Republican Senator and presidential hopeful for 2016 trying to evoke how the conservatives may not have the presidency but still intend to be heard probably should not be using that song.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_202d6ade	comment	Youtube Poop by various creators, to the point of Memetic Mutation, use the main riff of "Careless Whisper" to make once-innocent scenes instead look like the characters are about to get down to business. While Downplayed due to an instrumental portion being used for the meme instead of the conflicting lyrics, the song being about a man deciding that he deserves to be alone after his partner leaves him due to his unfaithfulness still makes its use in these situations rather "Careless".
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_21574300	comment	In Rumble Roses, the song "Yankee Rose" by David Lee Roth is used for the entrance music of a character and the intro. The character is Dixie Clemets, a Texan, who would probably punch you if you called her a Yankee. (Plus she's a tad more modest than the lyrics describe, but then again, considering the game...) Somewhat justified because in America it denotes someone from the northern states (particularly New England), but outside the USA, most countries (including Japan, where the game was made) use "Yankee" to mean any American. Still, one can't help but think they just looked at the Rose in the title.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_2230ce4b	comment	Anna and the Apocalypse: "Turning My Life Around", a song that repeats the lyrics "what a time to be alive", is used as the Zombie Apocalypse is breaking out in the background, with the main character obliviously singing it as her neighbors are being torn apart or running for their lives.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_22d87fc9	comment	Parodied in the That '70s Show episode "Drive-In", where Kelso gets a KISS alarm clock that plays the chorus of "Rock And Roll All Nite", but replaces the word "party" from "party every day" with a stilted voice saying "Wake up", since the song is about having fun and not giving any thought to personal obligations.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_2536f651	comment	The Pogues's "Fairytale of New York", about a couple descending into a vitriolic screaming match on Christmas Eve, is a regular on shop Christmas playlists presumably because of the more upbeat chorus...at least until some employee catches the lyrics:
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: A straight example occurs in one Treehouse of Horror episode where Bart and Lisa get sent to an elementary school in Hell. A montage of their school life is shown with Pat Benatar's "Hell Is For Children", a song about child abuse, playing over it (for bonus points, the song was previously used in animation in an appropriate context â€” the late going of Ralph Bakshi's American Pop).
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_2898a45e	comment	William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: "Lovefool" by The Cardigans, which shot to fame through its use in the film, sounds like a fairly standard love song ("Love me, love me, say that you love me") until you listen to the lyrics, in which the singer pleads for her beloved to just pretend that he loves her back because she can't deal with rejection. The same movie has "#1 Crush", from Garbage. Another song about obsession. Great choice for the movie.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_2b03409f	comment	In 2024, the Irish version of Dancing with the Stars (Strictly Come Dancing under a different title, for the uninformed) had a jockey dancing a Paso Doble to "Crazy Horses" by The Osmonds. Someone didn't realize that the song is actually about automobiles, not racehorses - according to Jay Osmond, the song is specifically about gas-guzzling cars polluting the environment. Interestingly, when the song originally was released, censor boards in France and South Africa thought it was about drugs.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_2e1df124	comment	The driving-lesson montage in Wreck-It Ralph set to Rihanna's "Shut Up and Drive". That song isn't about motoring...
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_32510c62	comment	Celldweller's "Frozen" is described as a great song to have sex to, and definitely is somehow about sex, but lyrically it seems to be more about masturbating whilst thinking of an ex and being unable to move on. "It's better to be broken than to break".
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_3263f2e	comment	According to Ian Broudie, both the Conservative and Labour parties approached him about using The Lightning Seeds' "Lucky You" as a campaign anthem in 1997. They really hadn't paid attention to the song, which is made of Lyrical Dissonance. (And that aside, quite why Labour would think a song whose hook goes "Everything's blue now, oh lucky you"note the colour blue is associated with the Conservatives, who are Labour's main opposition would be a good song for them remains a mystery.)
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_3386ee26	comment	"Bohemian Like You" by The Dandy Warhols has been used more than once in car adverts by virtue of the first line, which goes "You've got a great car". The second line, "Yeah, what's wrong with it today?", is rarely played.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_369e2fe0	comment	"Lovin' You" by Minnie Riperton is a common choice for video tributes to loved ones. In reality, it is a sweet-sounding, bird-song-filled... Intercourse with You song. However, it's Fridge Brilliance if you remember that it was actually intended to be a Parental Love Song to the singer's daughter.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_3cd90f30	comment	Parodied in Arrested Development when Michael and Maeby (uncle and niece) perform a duet of "Afternoon Delight" and slowly come to realise that the song is actually about sex as they sing it. This happens twice in the same episode: Lindsay and George Michael (aunt and nephew) were away when Michael and Maeby figured out the nature of the lyrics, and decided to sing the same exact song, coming to a similar, horrified revelation.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_3ce9904b	comment	Early ads for the Xbox Kinect used Gang of Four's "Natural's Not In It" (albeit in an edit that did away with lyrics altogether). The song is partially about the futility of trying to find fulfillment through consumerism, so its presence in an ad for nearly anything would fit this trope to some extent.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_3ce9904b	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_3ce9904b	featureConfidence	1.0
Gang of Four (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_3ce9904b
Isn't It Ironic? / int_3f633fb4	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_3f633fb4	comment	Cracked has its Top 9 of "Inappropriate Soundtrack Choices". Their list includes such examples as: General Electric using "Sixteen Tons" in a clean coal commercial.But the lyrics to the chorus go: You haul Sixteen Tons, whadaya get / Another day older and deeper in debt / Saint Peter don't call cause I can't go / I owe my soul to the company store."This is a classic example of someone breaking the Golden Rule of advertising: never imply that your product or service prevents people from getting into heaven. Obviously on a rational level, we know that General Electric doesn't make coal miners sign over their souls, but they don't seem overly eager to distance themselves from the practice either. Probably just leaving their options open. Y'know, in case the unions start acting up again." The "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma" example from Oatmeal Raisin Crisp is used, because "they wanted you to look at what they'd done to their oatmeal". The lyrics of the song were so close to matching up perfectly to the ad's message, they just needed a tiny adjustment. So they changed the chorus from "look what they've done to my song, ma" to "look what they've done to my oatmeal." The problem is, said lyrics, according to Cracked, are written in such a way that they give "the impression that some shadowy government agency has taken General Mills oatmeal, put raisins in it against its will, and now they're trying to stir up public outrage." There is also, of course, the obvious irony inherent in a group of advertisers fucking up a song bemoaning advertisers constantly fucking up their songs.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_3f633fb4	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_3f633fb4	featureConfidence	1.0
Cracked (Website)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_3f633fb4
Isn't It Ironic? / int_41e04ebb	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_41e04ebb	comment	Red Stripe promoted Red Stripe Light beer by having a group of Bobby McFerrin wannabes dancing and singing a reggae cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax", a homoerotic Intercourse with You song. One has to wonder if this example was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, considering it's the same guys who once made a commercial based around how ugly the shape of their bottles are.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_41e04ebb	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_41e04ebb	featureConfidence	1.0
Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_41e04ebb
Isn't It Ironic? / int_42482e40	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_42482e40	comment	Unless the singer is actually performing in Oliver!, they will not perform "As Long As He Needs Me" as a battered woman making excuses for staying with the scumbag. The lines "Who else would love him still / When they've been used so ill?" never, ever survives a cover, needless to say. It's also used to rather hilarious effect on an episode of Two and a Half Men in a situation that actually highlights and inverts its inappropriateness as a love song by using it as accompaniment to a montage in which Stalker with a Crush Rose lavishes affection and attention on a helplessly ill Charlie. The thing is, Rose got Charlie sick in the first place and is keeping him that way so she can indulge her romantic feelings for him.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_42482e40	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_42482e40	featureConfidence	1.0
Oliver! (Theatre)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_42482e40
Isn't It Ironic? / int_48c95353	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_48c95353	comment	A commercial for America's Next Top Model once used "High School Never Ends" by Bowling for Soup. The song itself is about a teenager entering high school, seeing how pretentious and superficial people are, and waiting it out for four years... then discovering that the rest of life is the same way. First verse: "Four years, you think for sure / That's all you've got to endure / All the total dicks, all the stuck-up chicks / So superficial, so immature / But then when you graduate / You take a look around and you say 'Hey, wait! / This is the same as where I just came from / I though it was over, aww, that's just great.'"
Isn't It Ironic? / int_48c95353	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_48c95353	featureConfidence	1.0
America's Next Top Model	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_48c95353
Isn't It Ironic? / int_4b4d15e2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_4b4d15e2	comment	"Zombie" by The Cranberries is a popular Halloween song, with even Spotify putting it on their Halloween playlist, entirely because of its title. The song is actually about how War Is Hell, and was inspired by a bombing during The Troubles that killed two children.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_4b4d15e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_4b4d15e2	featureConfidence	1.0
The Cranberries (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_4b4d15e2
Isn't It Ironic? / int_4f1098ae	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_4f1098ae	comment	Invoked in Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, where the Nazi vampire army selected via survey to invade England to Edwin Starr's anti-war anthem "War".
Isn't It Ironic? / int_4f1098ae	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_4f1098ae	featureConfidence	1.0
Hellsing Ultimate Abridged (Web Video)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_4f1098ae
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5293b208	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5293b208	comment	Some fanmade music videos have Hiroyuki Takami's "JUSTICE" set to scenes of a heroic protagonist kicking serious ass. Just one small problem: "JUSTICE" isn't about fighting in the name of justice. It's a Villain Song about committing atrocities for self-serving reasons, and the name comes from the fact that it's a lie to rationalize the singer's cruelty.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5293b208	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5293b208	featureConfidence	1.0
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_5293b208
Isn't It Ironic? / int_55ea2b1f	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_55ea2b1f	comment	GE used Tennessee Ernie Ford's version of "Sixteen Tons" for their advert for clean coal. The song depicts life as a coal miner under the truck system. Under this system, workers were paid with exchangeable credit vouchers for goods at the company store. This made it impossible for workers to store up cash savings. Workers also usually lived in company-owned dormitories or houses, the rent for which was automatically deducted from their pay. "St. Peter don't call me 'cause I can't go / I owe my soul to the company store." It was also used in a Cracked article.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_55ea2b1f	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_55ea2b1f	featureConfidence	1.0
Tennessee Ernie Ford (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_55ea2b1f
Isn't It Ironic? / int_56dce3c2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_56dce3c2	comment	A King's Hawaiian rolls ad that crosspromotes Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 uses Jane's Addiction's Been Caught Stealing as music. While it does go well with the mixtape-themed music of the series, it's doubtful that the bread company really thought about the connation of a song that says "When I want something, man, I don't wanna pay for it!" being used to hawk their products.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_56dce3c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_56dce3c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_56dce3c2
Isn't It Ironic? / int_57965cef	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_57965cef	comment	Captain Marvel (2019) has during the credits Hole's "Celebrity Skin". While at the surface, it fits Carol Danvers's awesomeness by being a rocking song sung by a woman, the lyrics are not as triumphant, being about the disillusion from fame (e.g. "Oh, look at my face \ My name is Might-Have-Been \ My name is Never Was \ My name's forgotten" and "Wilted and faded \ Somewhere in Hollywood").
Isn't It Ironic? / int_57965cef	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_57965cef	featureConfidence	1.0
Captain Marvel (2019)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_57965cef
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5b286668	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5b286668	comment	John Mellencamp refused to allow Ronald Reagan to use his song "Pink Houses" for his presidental campaign. The song has a "patriotic" chorus, but disillusionment in its verses.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5b286668	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5b286668	featureConfidence	1.0
John Mellencamp (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_5b286668
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5cb1d658	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5cb1d658	comment	"Money" from The Dark Side of the Moon is often used to promote "do crazy stuff on the air for money" type radio contests. It's about how money and greed makes you do stupid things.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5cb1d658	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5cb1d658	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dark Side of the Moon (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_5cb1d658
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5dbd6bc5	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5dbd6bc5	comment	"Mack the Knife", a song from the incredibly anti-capitalist musical The Threepenny Opera, detailing a businessman who murders people to further his own gains, was once used in a marketing campaign for McDonald's. The lyrics were completely rewritten, at least.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5dbd6bc5	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_5dbd6bc5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Threepenny Opera (Theatre)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_5dbd6bc5
Isn't It Ironic? / int_60ff6d80	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_60ff6d80	comment	When the Republicans used Heart's "Barracuda" as Sarah Palin's theme song, Nancy Wilson responded that the song "was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women..." Specifically, about some record execs spreading a rumor that Nancy and her sister were "involved". Granted, the reason Palin used that song was because her nickname in high school was "Saracuda", and that was something that her supporters were aware of at the time. Might bring up some Unfortunate Implications, but at least they weren't using the song because of some perceived lyrical meaning.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_60ff6d80	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_60ff6d80	featureConfidence	1.0
Heart (Band) (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_60ff6d80
Isn't It Ironic? / int_629cd094	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_629cd094	comment	There is a Dragon Age: Origins fan mod that inserts a cinematic of Alistair and Cousland's wedding. The music playing in the background? An elvish song about how we shouldn't fear death.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_629cd094	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_629cd094	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Age: Origins (Video Game)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_629cd094
Isn't It Ironic? / int_63d46319	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_63d46319	comment	A truck or SUV commercial that aired in early 2022 used Blind Melon's No Rain, specifically the "escape" bridge and the solo. The song is about crippling depression.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_63d46319	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_63d46319	featureConfidence	1.0
Blind Melon (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_63d46319
Isn't It Ironic? / int_684cc26a	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_684cc26a	comment	Subverted with the cover of "Ghost Riders In The Sky" used during the closing credits of Ghost Rider (2007). The song is about ghost cowboys damned to herd the Devil's cattle through the skies for eternity; in the movie, Johnny Blaze opts to Flip Off Cthulhu and tell the Devil that he's going to turn his curse against him and sabotage all his evil plans. The catch, however, is that by Word of God, the song was the original inspiration for both the earlier Weird West Ghost Rider seriesnote Retconned to Phantom Rider but retaining its in-universe quasi-Legacy Character connections to Ghost Rider and the Johnny Blaze Retool. The song's riders inspired the Devil's Job Offer Johnny is given rounding up stray souls, and the final verse's Jacob Marley Warning inspired the twist that as he was not technically dead, a Faustian Rebellion was still possible.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_684cc26a	featureApplicability	-0.3
Isn't It Ironic? / int_684cc26a	featureConfidence	1.0
Ghost Rider (2007)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_684cc26a
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6a8e730b	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6a8e730b	comment	For a few seasons, the long-running BBC technology series Tomorrow's World used an instrumental portion of The Divine Comedy's "In Pursuit of Happiness" as its theme tune. Anybody who heard the lyrics would realise the song is quite the opposite of the show's upbeat outlook on progress â€” the edit used on the show looped back to the start just in time to avoid the vocal coming in with "Hey, don't be surprised if millions die in plague and murder".
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6a8e730b	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6a8e730b	featureConfidence	1.0
Tomorrow's World	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_6a8e730b
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6ba3c140	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6ba3c140	comment	Songs from Dear Evan Hansen are often used in an inspirational or heartwarming context, especially "You Will Be Found" and "For Forever". The finale that reprises both of these songs was used for the "In Memoriam" segment of the 72nd Tony Awards, for example. The problem is, many of the songs Evan sings, while they do carry genuine emotions, are used to lie to the classmates and family of a suicide victim for Evan's own emotional gain.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6ba3c140	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6ba3c140	featureConfidence	1.0
Dear Evan Hansen (Theatre)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_6ba3c140
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6c54dcc4	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6c54dcc4	comment	Alone in the Dark (2005) contains a sex scene set to Neneh Cherry and Youssou N'Dour's duet "7 Seconds". Apparently, nobody bothered to tell director Uwe Boll that the song is about racism.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6c54dcc4	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6c54dcc4	featureConfidence	1.0
Alone in the Dark (2005)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_6c54dcc4
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6d0f9c3d	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6d0f9c3d	comment	Parodied in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. When Ron tries to explain how his feelings for Veronica Corningstone go beyond the desire for sex, he decides to explain the feeling of love, by singing "Afternoon Delight", a song about two people whose relationship is mostly sexual.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6d0f9c3d	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6d0f9c3d	featureConfidence	1.0
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_6d0f9c3d
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6d10ab0b	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6d10ab0b	comment	The trailer for Mortal Kombat 9 revealed at PAX 10 was probably guilty of this, being set to Disturbed's "Another Way to Die" and making a blatant point of highlighting the lyric "It's just another way to die!" (shadowy violence all-throughout). Aggressive as it may sound, the lyric is environmental in nature, meant to describe the consequences of people's treatment of the Earth.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6d10ab0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_6d10ab0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Mortal Kombat 9 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_6d10ab0b
Isn't It Ironic? / int_72308d	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_72308d	comment	A 2006 commercial for Trojan condoms used "Let Love In" by Goo Goo Dolls. A song about setting aside anger and letting positivity enter our hearts is the perfect soundtrack for selling what prevents love from being let in.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_72308d	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_72308d	featureConfidence	1.0
Goo Goo Dolls (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_72308d
Isn't It Ironic? / int_727850de	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_727850de	comment	The song "East Bound and Down" by Jerry Reed, and covered by him and many other bands like The Road Hammers, is the theme song for Smokey and the Bandit. Its melody and music fits well to be used as a travel montage song for music videos or movies, since it evokes images of speeding freight trains or semi trucks on interstate highways, but the lyrics themselves are about a trucker who is bootlegging Coors liquor from Texas to Georgia and trying to avoid being caught by the police. Depending on what you set it to, the irony becomes very transparent.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_727850de	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_727850de	featureConfidence	1.0
Smokey and the Bandit	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_727850de
Isn't It Ironic? / int_72e8c087	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_72e8c087	comment	Jason Derulo has sampled some rather unfitting songs for his own music on more than one occasion: He sampled Imogen Heap for his song "Whatcha Say", wherein he sings along with the chorus about his apology. The problem is, in "Hide and Seek", the singer is clearly sarcastic, about how the person in question didn't mean well. So, in this context, it's Derulo singing about just how unfaithful and spiteful he is ("I don't want you to leave me\Though you caught me cheatin'"). Oops. In "Don't Wanna Go Home", he samples the Harry Belafonte song "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", about a guy who's working so hard he can't wait to go home... to talk about a guy who's partying so hard he doesn't wanna go home.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_72e8c087	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_72e8c087	featureConfidence	1.0
Jason Derulo (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_72e8c087
Isn't It Ironic? / int_734eae61	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_734eae61	comment	At one point, homophobic politician George Bush Sr. used as a theme song the intensely gay "The Best of Times" from La Cage aux folles. The musical's librettist, Harvey Fierstein, commented, "Some queen pulled a fast one on him!"
Isn't It Ironic? / int_734eae61	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_734eae61	featureConfidence	1.0
La Cage aux folles (Theatre)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_734eae61
Isn't It Ironic? / int_78c1833b	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_78c1833b	comment	The song "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" is often used by Neo-Nazis. Its writers, John Kander and Fred Ebb, were Jewish and wrote it as part of the anti-fascist musical Cabaret as a warning against Nazism.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_78c1833b	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_78c1833b	featureConfidence	1.0
Cabaret (Theatre)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_78c1833b
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7d122312	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7d122312	comment	Advertising anything with a song called "Mediocrity Rules" is asking for this outcome if not done tongue-in-cheek, but Post used the Le Tigre song of that title to advertise its Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles cereals, almost certainly because of the outro consisting of "yabba dabba dabba doo, man" repeatedly.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7d122312	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7d122312	featureConfidence	1.0
The Flintstones	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_7d122312
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7e0fd062	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7e0fd062	comment	Con Air: Quoth Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) when the convicts escape from the desert strip in their plane and celebrate: "Define 'irony'; a bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash." Incidentally, the song in question is "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, making it a repeat offender on this very page.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7e0fd062	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7e0fd062	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_7e0fd062
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7e3ced1d	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7e3ced1d	comment	British outdoor clothing and supply store Go Outdoors used "Let Me Go" by Gary Barlow over clips of a family having fun outside and doing various activities. If you know the song's about Gary's stillborn daughter, it becomes creepy to watch.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7e3ced1d	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7e3ced1d	featureConfidence	1.0
Gary Barlow (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_7e3ced1d
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7f20564b	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7f20564b	comment	The Sabaton song "The Last Stand" has become something of an anti-Islamic anthem for the Alt-Right (as well as people making memes about The Crusades, on a lighter note). Which is odd, because if you listen to the verses instead of just the chorus, the forces besieging "the home of the Holy" are Protestants; it's about the titular Last Stand of the Swiss Guard defending the Pope during the 1527 sack of Rome.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7f20564b	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_7f20564b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sabaton (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_7f20564b
Isn't It Ironic? / int_8124a34e	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_8124a34e	comment	For several years, Barbie was advertised with "Barbie Girl" by Aqua, a parody song which includes lines like "I'm a blond bimbo girl in a fantasy world" and "Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky". Granted, they changed most of the lyrics, but still... Interestingly, Mattel were furious about the song when it first came out and sued Aqua's record company, but, on appeal from summary judgment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Kozinski, J, for a unanimous panel) "advise[d] the parties to chill." Apparently, they did.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_8124a34e	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_8124a34e	featureConfidence	1.0
Barbie (Franchise)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_8124a34e
Isn't It Ironic? / int_8202cdcb	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_8202cdcb	comment	The Pussy Cat Dolls song "Don't Cha" is often thought to promote cheating on your girlfriend with a more attractive woman ("Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?") It is actually about resisting the urge to do so for the sake of protecting the more valuable relationship.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_8202cdcb	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_8202cdcb	featureConfidence	1.0
Pussycat Dolls (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_8202cdcb
Isn't It Ironic? / int_84898149	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_84898149	comment	A car commercial used the titular lines from "Move Along" by The All-American Rejects. Cars move you, so "Move Along" is the perfect lineâ€¦ if you are somehow able to ignore the fact that in the song, the singer is trying to convince his friend not to commit suicide. The song also turned up in some of LEGO's BIONICLE ads, when Lego had a deal with the band (the story was that the toyline's antagonists kidnapped the band and forced them to play private concerts). At least there it was slightly less out of placeâ€¦ but only just: on the one hand, the heroes of the story are trying to prevent a death. On the other, the song's still being used with kid's toys.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_84898149	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_84898149	featureConfidence	1.0
The All-American Rejects (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_84898149
Isn't It Ironic? / int_85ab2579	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_85ab2579	comment	The tune for the Marines' Hymn actually comes from a song by Jacques Offenbach entitled "The Bold Gendarmes", about two cowardly (and deeply corrupt) Gendarmes:
Isn't It Ironic? / int_85ab2579	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_85ab2579	featureConfidence	1.0
Jacques Offenbach (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_85ab2579
Isn't It Ironic? / int_87b55b5d	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_87b55b5d	comment	Parodied in The Onion: "Song About Heroin Used To Advertise Bank" specifically mocks Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" being used ironically.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_87b55b5d	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_87b55b5d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Onion (Website)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_87b55b5d
Isn't It Ironic? / int_89bf8ce	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock: Jenna and her mom use a karaoke performance of "Do That To Me One More Time" to celebrate their reconciliation.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_89bf8ce	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_89bf8ce	featureConfidence	1.0
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_89c084b2	comment	The Rolling Stones: The song that was ultimately played the most during Donald Trump's presidential campaign (without permission)? "You Can't Always Get What You Want". Not only is it a rather odd choice for a political campaign song, considering the thing the singer wants is a woman he knows will be bad for him, but Trump even played it after his victory speech. In her 2005 campaign, German Chancellor Angela Merkel introduced herself using the song "Angie", which is a Break Up Song written about Mick Jagger's split with Marianne Faithfull. The song's lyrics includes lines like "All the dreams we held so close seemed to all go up in smoke / You can't say we're satisfied". A spokesman for the group said, "We are surprised that permission was not requested. If it had been requested, we would have said no.", though the group took no action to stop her.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_89f4bc45	comment	An edited recap of the WrestleMania bout between The Undertaker and Triple H saw The Deadman's entrance be changed from "Ain't No Grave" to "E.T.", a song that uses making contact with an alien as a metaphor for having sex with a stranger. It has to be seen to be believed. Granted they made sure to edit out the suggestive lyrics but even then that is probably the last song you'd ever associate with The Phenom.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_8d7ce8f6	comment	"Bad Boys", the song used as the theme of COPS, is actually an Inner Circle song about cops abusing their power.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Glee: Idina Menzel in a special mentions how during her appearance in the first season (specifically "Theatricality"), the touching reunion song with her daughter being the innuendo-filled "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga seemed odd, to say the least. Special attention was given to the bridge's lyrics. Having Finn sings R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" in "Grilled Cheesus" while having a crisis of faith, even though that song isn't about religion (as Michael Stipe noted, it's Southern slang for losing one's patience). Parodied in the episode "Sexy" with Emma wanting to use "Afternoon Delight" to promote the Celibacy Club, under the mistaken belief that it was about having dessert in the middle of the day. Having Mercedes sing "Spotlight" in "Asian F" about her desire for the spotlight, when it's about a woman in an abusive relationship. The Season 3 episode "I Kissed a Girl" has the girls performing the homonymous song during Santana's coming out, immediately after attacking a boy for not taking lesbianism seriously. While the song is actually about bicuriosity, all of the lines that explicitly refer to that aspect (like the ones mentioning a boyfriend) are given to Rachel, who is straight. Having Puck and Finn sing "Glory Days" during graduation in "Goodbye", when that song is about mocking people who are fixated on high school. John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" ("Ain't that America") is not a bold, daring song about interior design. But then, it's generally not taken that way. The example is actually played "straight" as Kurt is trying to sing a manly song to contrast his reputation of being camp gay.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_8d814070	comment	The MASH theme song "Suicide is Painless" is quite upbeat, while the original version with lyrics from the film is very sombre.*
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_90f7114	comment	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Angela Lansbury (the original Mrs. Lovett) sang "Not While I'm Around" in concert, describing how comforting she finds the song. Which is fair enough (in the original it's a sincere if misguided song of devotion by a different character), but somewhat ironic, given that Mrs. Lovett only sings it as an incredibly creepy Dark Reprise to lure out a character she intends to murder. To make it even more hilarious, a review summary of the concert said Angela "performs such holiday gems as 'We Need a Little Christmas' and 'Not While I'm Around'". Describing a song from Sweeney Todd as a holiday gem is something of a stretch. A YouTube video well-known among Sweeney Todd fans features a slideshow of horse pictures... the background song being "My Friends". Apparently the little girl who made it had no idea that the original song was about knives and murder. Especially the line "You'll soon drip precious rubies" caused hilarity to ensue. There's also a video of a little girl singing "Green Finch and Linnet Bird". The song isn't that creepy, just quite sad, on its own, but when you consider that Johanna is singing about cages as a metaphor for being molested by an insane ephebophile...
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_94d59990	comment	Disney used "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind (a song about doing crystal meth and receiving oral sex) in its ads for The Tigger Movie. Unsurprisingly, people took notice and had Disney play a different song over the ads.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_971cb5be	comment	The closing scene of Life (1999) was intended to be highly uplifting and spotlight Ray and Claude's friendship and freedom. However, the song chosen was "What Would You Do" by City High, which is about a woman explaining her reasons for becoming a hooker. The song was obviously only chosen for the single chorus line "But for me this is what I call life".
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_995fed17	comment	Sing 2 is about a theatre troupe putting on a musical about an astronaut searching for another missing astronaut. At the end of the show she finds him. In the greater scope, many of the characters go through significant development: Clay finds a reason to play music again, Ash finds a mentor, Meena finds love, Rosita finds confidence (again) and stardom, Porsha finds acclaim outside of her father's shadow, Buster achieves his dream of putting on a show in a Las Vegas expy... The song they choose to encapsulate all this in the finale? "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_9bf68953	comment	Although YOASOBI's "Yoru ni Kakeru" is popular and has an energetic melody, most people don't know that its lyrics are implied to be a girl and a boy who decide to have a Suicide Pact, as the lyrics mention that "when you fall, I'll reach your hand", and that they'll "fall into the dawnless night".
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_9c628c0a	comment	A 2015 ad for Honest diapers uses "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor, a song celebrating Big Beautiful Women.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_9e13cc7	comment	In an egregious case of irony, Trump used "Happy" by Pharrell Williams during his visit to Indiana... on the same day as a synagogue massacre. Williams was not happy and a cease-and-desist was issued, telling Trump there is nothing "happy" about what happened at the synagogue.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	Regular Show used Filter's "Hey Man Nice Shot", a song about Bud Dwyer's televised suicide, for a basketball scene. The lyric "A man has gun / Hey man have fun" can even clearly be heard.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_a37a8978	comment	Six: The Musical: The song "Haus of Holbein" saw popularity on TikTok, specifically due to a trend that involved showing off the tightness of a corset set to the verses "You bring the corset, we'll bring the cinches / No one wants a waist over nine inches". Except the song in question is actually meant to poke fun at the harmful beauty procedures of the Tudor era — so much so that the verse in question is followed by an acknowledgement that the make-up at the time contained lead poison. "Don't Lose Ur Head" and "All You Wanna Do" have also fallen victim to this, especially the latter, which is a deceptively upbeat song about how Katherine Howard was manipulated and mistreated by every single man she was romantically involved with, culminating in her having a meltdown onstage.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_a4fde677	comment	"Start Me Up" from Tattoo You was famously used by Microsoft for the Windows 95 launch. The lyrics include the well-known refrain "You make a grown man cry." Anyone who used Windows 95 would find that line very aptâ€¦ (Considering why the speaker is crying, it's possible that Microsoft knew the context and used it anyway because Sex Sells.) The line starting with "I can't competeâ€¦" also seemed appropriate when Microsoft got accused of monopolization. And then there's the Urban Legend that states that Mick Jagger ran into Bill Gates at a party, quoted him an enormously inflated price as a jokeâ€¦ and Gates wrote him a check on the spot.The song has also been used by Toyota. One has to wonder if "Start me up / I'll never stop" really is the right kind of lyrics for a car company that had a problem with their cars accelerating and not stopping because of a pedal defect.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_a532a347	comment	Sheryl Crow: "If it Makes You Happy" was used in a car commercial. They only used part of the chorus, which goes "If it makes you happy/it can't be that bad", clearly trying to give the impression that buying a new car is just what your self-esteem needs. They had the foresight to cut off the song right before the last line of the chorus, which is "Then why the hell are you so sad?" One Best Buy commercial used "Soak up the Sun" for their summer sale. This is a song about a poor girl who "don't have digital... don't have diddly squat" and knows "It's not having what you want/it's wanting what you've got". Even better, the song's "enjoy what you have, don't spend excessively" must have gone completely over the heads of American Express, who used it in a commercial for a credit card.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_a55aafee	comment	In the trailer for Race to Witch Mountain, Disney used the guitar solo from The Offspring's "Stuff Is Messed Up", which has some seriously kid-unfriendly lyrics.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_a5e3b5b5	comment	In Prez (2015), Corrupt Corporate Executive Smiley delivers a motivational speech to his employees rounded off with a burst of Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World". Afterward he turns to an aide and points out how inappropriate the music choice is.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_a88418fd	comment	A rare example of this being done by the original songwriter is "Unworthy of Your Love" by Stephen Sondheim. Originally the song appeared in Assassins and was a creepy duet between John Hinckley and Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme about their obsessive loves for Jodie Foster and Charles Manson respectively, which would lead to Hinckley attempting to assassinate President Reagan and Fromme attempting to assassinate President Ford. The creepiness is all the more effective because it's so low-key and the lyrics only slightly exaggerate the usual extravagant language of love songs... which made it easy to pluck it from its context and stick it into the revue Putting It Together, in which it's meant to be taken at face value.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_a918d4f4	comment	There was a Honda Hybrid commercial featuring the music of the The Postal Service's "We Will Become Silhouettes", a song about a nuclear holocaust. Apparently, green energy and atomic super weapons go hand in hand.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_a984638b	comment	In the pilot episode of Allen Gregory, after the titular character meets his principal for the first time, he starts fantasizing about himself having all sorts of romantic encounters with her. This fantasy sequence is set to the chorus of Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight"... the very same "In the Air Tonight" that, in its verses, features lyrics like "Well, if you told me you were drowning / I would not lend a hand", and, for extra points, was inspired by Collins's divorce from his first wife.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_aa4e9182	comment	"Lovefool" by The Cardigans, which shot to fame through its use in the film, sounds like a fairly standard love song ("Love me, love me, say that you love me") until you listen to the lyrics, in which the singer pleads for her beloved to just pretend that he loves her back because she can't deal with rejection.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_ab5f598f	comment	The 2021 UK series of Masterchef had a rather unfortunate choice of "triumphant" music for the announcement of the winner: "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)" by Phil Collins, a histrionic song of desperation over lost love. It's not as if the producers didn't realise how wildly inappropriate it was, since someone had actually gone to the trouble of editing together the vocal and instrumental versions to eliminate all the lyrics except for the two phrases in the title.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_af7aead4	comment	Discussed on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's segment on campaign songs, where he talks about ill-fitting songs politicians play at their rallies without permission from the artists, such as Donald Trump using "It's the End of the World As We Know It" or Ronald Reagan using "Born in the U.S.A." (more on that in the Politics folder). As stated in the celebrity-packed song at the end of the statement:
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_b2bf1826	comment	Touched by an Angel reversed the trope once. "No One Is Alone", from Into the Woods, is a rather straightforward song: life is tough, yet no one goes through it without someone beside them. It's not that surprising that it would be used in this show, when angel Monica is faced with a crisis of faith. It is surprising that it's Satan singing it to her, trying to get her to join his side. (Notably, Mandy Patinkin, who has frequently performed in Sondheim's musicals, played Satan here.)
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_b36db295	comment	In 2008, all the trailers for Milk (a biographical movie about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors) used Bowie's song "Queen Bitch" (Hunky Dory), which raises unfortunate questions about how the marketing team felt about the film's subject.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_b36e3df0	comment	Nope: A Show Within a Show, Gordy's Home, uses the song "(You're a) Strange Animal" by Lawrence Gowan as its opening theme song. The show uses the song to emphasize the silliness of monkeys as a suburban family adopts one of the monkeys from NASA. In actuality, the music video for the song features a wild animal (played by Gowan) being taken out of its natural habitat and experimented on, and the lyrics state that this isn't a good thing. Tellingly, the show cuts out the poignant verses of the song.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_b6172f9c	comment	MGMT's "Time To Pretend" from Oracular Spectacular is quite clearly a sarcastic slamming of the "sex drugs and rock and roll" lifestyle. Most people think it's a celebration of said lifestyle. Nevermind the lines about choking on your vomit, missing a simple and ordinary lifestyle, and the increasingly sad tone of the song as it progresses.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_b61818a5	comment	Nena's "99 Luftballons" (not to be confused with the "Red Balloons" song) is a perky, upbeat-sounding pop song that frequently gets used in dance halls, proms, and other upbeat social events. The song itself is an anti-Cold War song about a swarm of children's balloons triggering a nuclear war. Part of what helps this is that the song was originally released in German.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_b7db5642	comment	Subverted to brilliant effect in the final scene of the Stranger Things Season 2 finale, "Chapter 9: The Gate". The scene is set to "Every Breath You Take", a Stalker with a Crush song with a gentle sound and romantic-sounding lyrics, but intended by the songwriter to depict an abusive, controlling, and angry figure. So just when you've spent a few minutes thinking it's the wrong choice for a school dance scene filled with romantic moments, the very end of the scene reveals that the Big Bad, who definitely fits the description of "abusive, controlling, and angry figure", is watching the whole thing, turning the song back into the Nightmare Fuel it's supposed to be.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_b7f926f1	comment	"London Calling" by The Clash has been used to hawk Jaguars, to encourage people to come to London for the Olympics, and just for regular tourist adverts for visiting London. The song is about how London is a horrible city, and will only get worse after the apocalypse.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_ba084d45	comment	"Satisfied" from Hamilton is a beautiful song that several musically-inclined sisters of the bride have had to explain is actually about being the unlucky sibling in a Sibling Triangle and thus very awkward to sing at one's actual sister's wedding.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_c01df100	comment	"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" from The Wall is seen as a cheerful, joking protest of school rules, when it's really a protest against conformity and verbally abusive teachers. (At the 12/12/12 concert for Sandy relief, Roger Waters got in on the act by using cheerful teenaged girls to sing the second verse. It was... bizarre.)
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_c1c642f7	comment	Hellboy (2004): "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Hellboy's hands are both red and his right hand is significant for being over-sized to punch better, but Hellboy is not designing and directing anything with his hand, and he does not have a larger plan involving giving out cars and money.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_c331df2d	comment	Tom Petty: In 2012, Michelle Bachmann attempted to use "American Girl", often thought to be about a young girl committing suicide, as her presidential campaign anthem. Tom Petty successfully forced her to pick something else. In 2022, Tom Petty's estate issued a cease-and-desist statement to Arizona gubenatorial candidate Kari Lake for using "I Won't Back Down" on her social media sites after refusing to concede the election to Katie Hobbs.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_c720f71e	comment	A YouTube video well-known among Sweeney Todd fans features a slideshow of horse pictures... the background song being "My Friends". Apparently the little girl who made it had no idea that the original song was about knives and murder. Especially the line "You'll soon drip precious rubies" caused hilarity to ensue.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_c7e8f086	comment	A strange one is a car commercial soundtracked by "Blindness" by The Fall, which is known for being a band that makes rather uncommercial music. It's especially baffling that this car company chose "Blindness", a song that begins with the line "I was walking down the street".
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_c9f76d79	comment	Sean Hannity uses an out-of-context clip to make Martina McBride's "Independence Day" sound like it's about terrorism. The song is frequently misused in general as a simple patriotic anthem, ignoring the verses (which describe an abusive relationship ending in murder-suicide from the point of view of a young child). The composer cannot stop Hannity from using the song, so she donated her royalties from his airplay to progressive causes.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_ca92edf1	comment	Call of Duty: Black Ops ran adverts featuring "Gimme Shelter" from Let It Bleed. Apparently a song depicting the horrors of war, which will eventually end all life on the planet, is supposed to encourage people to play as Black Op soldiers. That said, the Call of Duty franchise itself has had a history of being anti-war, yet simultaneously being pro-war, due to being a fun video game about the subject. So, while still contradictory, the advertisers were probably well aware of the song's meaning.Black Ops is also set during The '60s and The Vietnam War particularly â€” many of the soldiers fighting the war didn't particularly want to be there and would often play contemporary anti-war rock music being well aware of the irony; indeed, the first level of the game actually set in Vietnam starts with "Fortunate Son" playing over the radio. The producers probably knew exactly what they were doing.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_cc32f7c3	comment	Ever since 2020, WWE has used "War Pigs" as the theme song for its NXT WarGames events (mainly for the titular match) and recently was used for Survivor Series WarGames as well, evoking the match's awe-inspiring and brutal nature. This is despite the fact that "War Pigs" is very much an anti-war song, with it talking about about the horrors of war and how it is exploited as a means to gain money and power. Fans don't seem to mind, as between the song itself being well-liked, WWE and metal being a much-appreciated combination, nearly every WarGames match under WWE being good-to-great, and having Ozzy's Osbourne's blessing have all made it not nearly as jarring as it should be.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds lampshades this in "Unknown Subject", in which the UnSub likes to play songs from The '80s when raping his victims. When one of his victims tells him she recognized that the song he played at the bar was the same one he played when he was raping her, he explains that he played it because it was the music that he chose when he asked for his wife's hand. The victim doesn't buy itâ€¦ because the song was Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart". Sure, that's a love songâ€¦ a love song for vampires.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_cdae0b41	comment	Forever: At the end of the pilot, the Boxer Rebellion song that plays over Henry and Abigail meeting sings about New York, a place Abigail at least has never been, while their meeting is taking place at a liberated concentration camp in Germany. It's also a song about a long-distance relationship when Henry and Abigail were never really apart from that time on until the relationship ended forty years later.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_d1278b3a	comment	TV Spots for Pixar's Elemental (2023) feature Katy Perry's "Hot n Cold". While, yes, the title does make sense considering the movie centers around the romantic relationship between a fire elemental and a water elemental, it's quite jarring that adverts for a heartwarming (so to speak) love story is being promoted with a song about Katy Perry explicitly telling off an emotionally inconsistent romantic partner.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_d59887ee	comment	An early episode of the original Beverly Hills, 90210 had Brandon dating a teen mother with a baby named Joey. They constantly played Concrete Blonde's hit single "Joey" during the episode. The song is about a woman in a co-dependent relationship deciding to stay with her alcoholic lover.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_d5a6a864	comment	The 2012 NFL season saw a series of Bud Light commercials that celebrated fans with strange little traditions that they believe will improve their team's performanceâ€¦ set to "Superstition" from Talking Book by Stevie Wonder. Not surprisingly, the commercials always ended before getting to the line "When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer" â€” except in the long versions, where that line and the one immediately following it ("Superstition ain't the way") were included.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_d68b2de9	comment	iPhone commercials are notorious for misusing songs, but a particularly bad example is the 2014 "Powerful" advert, which features a bunch of teenage girls singing "Gigantic" â€” a song that Word of God states is about interracial romance but is commonly interpreted to be about a big black dick â€” by The Pixies.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_d68df17d	comment	During Top Gear's Vietnam Special, the dreaded "if-your-vehicle-breaks-down-you-have-to-ride-this" vehicle was a motorbike decorated with a Stars and Stripes motif, playing what the producers felt was culturally insensitive music. The music in question was the Bruce Springsteen song "Born in the U.S.A.", a song that specifically condemns The Vietnam War and isn't patriotic in the least. Later releases of the episode picked up on this, and replaced the music in post with "The Star-Spangled Banner".
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_d99024a2	comment	Genesis: A car company used "Turn It On Again" in one of their commercials â€” a song about a man who lives vicariously through his television and is a Stalker with a Crush. "Tonight Tonight Tonight", a song about a paranoid junkie making a drug deal late at night, was used for a famous Michelob beer commercial. After "Jesus He Knows Me" was released, the Christian TV station, the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), figured the band had discovered religion and picked up the song's video to air, but they decided not to after learning that the song is actually about a televangelist who lives a decadent, corrupt lifestyle off the donations from his viewers.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_da14b9f	comment	Rare non-music example. The book Seuss-isms for Success uses quotes from Dr. Seuss books to motivate the reader. To encourage the reader to "be a good host", it uses this passage from Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose: The point of Thidwick is not that you should be nice to people â€” it was written to counter the Stock Aesop and is rather about Taking Advantage of Generosity. The message is that letting others exploit you could lead to your destruction. The quote is used ironically in Thidwick to make it sound as if it has the Stock Aesop. The true message is not revealed until the very end.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_dad73e07	comment	A commercial for the Venetian Resort Las Vegas used a remix of "I Want It Now" from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory to promote their hotel as a place of indulgence, drawing particular focus to the "I want the world" lyric. It works, but remember that the original context of the song is a Spoiled Brat driving her father crazy as she demands every implausible thing in the world, and her refusal to accept not getting what she wants results in a karmic punishment (the short high note that ends the song in the remix replaces the original moment of the song where she falls to her doom).
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_ddd4b174	comment	Monopoly's revamp, which added pseudo-functioning credit cards to the game design, was advertised using Jessie J's "Price Tag", a song about how people shouldn't be driven by greed. They did change the lyrics, though whether or not that made it better or even worse is anyone's guess.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_de8f6b17	comment	Godzilla (1998): The soundtrack includes the song "No Shelter" by Rage Against the Machine. While the song does mention Godzilla by name, it's only to note that it's "pure motherfucking filler". The entire song is about American pop culture blinding people to the real problems in the world, used to advertise the most overhyped movie ever. The band wrote it as a Take That! to Sony when they were solicited for the Godzilla soundtrack. A song about a couple's rendezvous at the Berlin Wall that acknowledges that the relationship may well not last has nothing to do with Godzilla, but The Wallflowers did a cover of David Bowie's ""Heroes"" for the soundtrack anyway.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_e0e9e904	comment	Robbie Williams: Despite being a song about a troubled relationship, with a bridge starting with "Why don't we break up / There's nothing left to say", "Sexed Up" has been frequently used to score love montages on Italian reality TV. It was also used in Brazilian telenovela Mulheres Apaixonadas as the theme for the characters Diogo and Marina, who live a troubled marriage plagued by jealousy and infidelity (specifically, Diogo cheating on Marina with her cousin Luciana). While the song technically fits their storyline, as they ultimately separate, many a viewer didn't realize this, mistaking "Sexed Up" for a more standard love ballad without looking at the translation of the lyrics. So the song ended up appearing on a lot of wedding playlists at the time. Williams got hit with this again with the usage of "Advertising Space" as the love theme for the characters Duda and Leona in Cobras e Lagartos. The song in question is a Celebrity Elegy dedicated to Elvis Presley, describing the downfall of Presley's career and condemning the usage of his image as a marketing strategy after his death.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_e21e270	comment	Sia: Coke ads for the Olympics and Australian supermarket Coles using "Breathe Me", a song about depression, self-harm, or attempted suicide. Granted, they only used the instrumental part after the lyrics end. An ad for Christian Dior perfume starring Natalie Portman used "Chandelier" â€” the ad is meant to associate the scent with an epic tale of passionate love, but the song is about alcoholism and the downside of a hard-partying lifestyle. The ad only uses the chorus and pre-chorus of the song, and even then cuts the word "drink" out of the line "one, two, three, drink". Out of context, "I'm gonna swing from the chandelier / I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist" sounds more romantic than self-destructive, so it's only jarring to those who know what the song is actually about.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_e293455a	comment	The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Family" ends with a scene of Willow and Tara dancing to the song "I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" by Melanie Doane. The effect of this otherwise touching scene is somewhat marred if you know that the acompanying music is actually a love letter to a television.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_e372c716	comment	A trailer for The Karate Kid (2010) uses the refrain from Fort Minor's "Remember the Name", a song that has nothing to do with fighting and isn't particularly kid-friendly.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_e381e71f	comment	Olympic figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu has stated that his number one motivational song is "Kaze" from Digimon Tamers. Both the song and the lyrics are uplifting, so the irony isn't in the lyrics, but rather, the context the song is used in the anime. In the context of Digimon Tamers, the song is meant to give viewers a false sense of hope. The kids, being Digimon fans, are expecting the Digital World to be a brightly colored, fun wonderland like it was in the prior seasons, hence the uplifting music when they depart. Unfortunately, with this being Tamers, the Digital World isn't exactly the fun adventure they were hoping for thanks to the D-Reaper, and things quickly go to shit almost immediately after the song. "Kaze" is a marker indicating when the Cerebus Syndrome starts kicking in.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_e38bca40	comment	A futuristic-themed series of car commercials had a spot that used the cover of "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Shiny Toy Guns (originally recorded by Peter Schilling), and it cuts off right after "Earth below us / Drifting, falling..." While it's a very cool commercial, it's not hard to say, "Uh, you know that song doesn't end well, right?" "Across the stratosphere / a final message / 'give my wife my love' / then nothing more..." The "drifting, falling" part becomes an Ironic Echo â€” the same words meant something different on the way up, didn't they?
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_e649de81	comment	They played Ã‰dith Piaf's "Milord" once during a Beauty Queen (the Israeli equivalent to "Miss USA") contest. That song is about a prostitute trying to entertain her customer. One might wonder what they were trying to say about the contestants...
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_e7029101	comment	"Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)", a song about two shady losers co-conspiring a get-rich quick scheme (and implied imminent failure at said scheme), was used as the theme to Beauty and the Geek (where people actually did make lots of money), primarily because of the chorus "I've got the brains, you've got the looks / Let's make lots of money".
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_e8cd02cd	comment	In Hypnospace Outlaw, the entire "Coolpunk" music movement came from this happening. "Colder Than The Rest" by in-universe musician Fre3zer samples advertising jingles from soda company Gray's Peak, with lyrics that are very bitter and anti-consumerist, likening advertising to induction into a cult. Gray's Peak takes notice andâ€¦ completely misses that it's supposed to be an attack on them. They become a close-knit sponsor of Hypnospace, and the zone they form attracts a slew of imitatorsinvoked to Fre3zer's success.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_ea4f62db	comment	The final stretch of Family Guy's "No Meals on Wheels" has Peter confined to a wheelchair for a time. He gets a montage of scenes showing him trying to adapt to this situation set to Elton John's "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues", a song about lovers who are far apart.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_ea7b5a6a	comment	"Space Oddity". It's about an astronaut lost in the empty void of space forever â€” or rather until his eventual cremation by re-entry â€” sung in a tone quite appropriate for describing such a fate, and the Ground Control guy sounds plainly hopeless by the end. The BBC used "Space Oddity", when it was originally released in 1969, as part of its coverage of the moon landing. A car commercial by Lincoln used a cover of the song by Cat Power. The ad proper pushes the technology of the car and how "futuristic" it looks. It cuts off after "you've really made the grade".
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_ec2531c4	comment	In Coco, Ernesto de la Cruz's Signature Song "Remember Me" contains lyrics like "Remember me / Each time you hear a sad guitar," despite Ernesto's performance being incredibly lively and upbeat with no trace of a sad guitar. This foreshadows the truth behind the song: Ernesto stole the song from HÃ©ctor, who wrote it as a very personal and private acoustic song for his daughter Coco, a "secret song" that they could share while HÃ©ctor was away from her. Ernesto's rendition doesn't consider this subtext, making this "secret song" into a very public spectacle.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_ec6b71cf	comment	The soundtrack includes the song "No Shelter" by Rage Against the Machine. While the song does mention Godzilla by name, it's only to note that it's "pure motherfucking filler". The entire song is about American pop culture blinding people to the real problems in the world, used to advertise the most overhyped movie ever. The band wrote it as a Take That! to Sony when they were solicited for the Godzilla soundtrack.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_ed113c02	comment	Saints Row IV includes Kendrick Lamar's "Swimming Pools" on the soundtrack. While the trippy production fits the theme of the game well, the lyrics, on the other hand, are a Deconstruction of excessive partying.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_edac271f	comment	Germany's Deutschland sucht den Superstar (from the same branch as American Idol) uses Melanie C's "Next Best Superstar" to celebrate their winner. "Crack a smile in denial; throw your morals on the fire".
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: If you listen to more than just the refrain, "You Are My Sunshine" by Jimmie Davis is about how the love of the singer's life has left him, and how miserable he is, and how she'll never be happy without him. The Doctor likes to sing this to Seven of Nine (or have her sing it to him) as a love song. Played straight in one episode where the Doctor has his ethical subroutines removed. At that point, he's experimenting with her borg implants, forcing her to vocally sing along with him. He seems to be well aware of the song's meaning.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother: The episode "How Lily Stole Christmas" scores a wholesome scene where Marshall helps deliver presents to people before Christmas with Clarence Carter's "Back Door Santa", a song about sneaking around with taken women. It cuts out after "I make all the little girls happy..." before he next line, "while the boys are out to play." It's especially ironic because it's a recurring theme throughout the series that, barring a temporary breakup, Marshall can't even think about getting with anybody but his long-term partner, Lily.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_f711d70d	comment	Boyz II Men wrote two sentimental-sounding ballads that were a staple of high school dances in The '90s: "End of the Road" and "On Bended Knee". Both songs, which teen couples would slow-dance to, are breakup songs. In "On Bended Knee", the singer is begging his ex to take him back. Meanwhile, "End of the Road" is about the singer's unhealthy obsession with his ex and his inability to let go despite the relationship being over.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_fa4588b7	comment	In an inversion of the many examples on this page of violent, un-PC songs being used in innocent contexts, a number of tobyMac songs (mostly "The Slam") have been used in previews for violent movies and shows, despite said songs being about God. Although, "The Slam" was written by tobyMac after he saw The Passion of the Christ, which is pretty violent.
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Isn't It Ironic? / int_fc809656	comment	Celebrity Cruises used the highly inappropriate "Fame" from Young Americans in one of their commercials. What they probably didn't realize is that the song is a bitter rant about the perils of fame. It's also been used to advertise Cadillac cars, which could almost cross the line into Stealth Parody on the part of the ad agency.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_fc809656	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_fc809656	featureConfidence	1.0
Young Americans (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_fc809656
Isn't It Ironic? / int_fe6cdec	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_fe6cdec	comment	British furniture retailer DFS had a TV ad campaign using Nickelback's "Rockstar". On the surface, it seems to be an "I Want" Song, but the lyrics are about the shallowness of materialism and instant gratification. The ads offered interest-free credit. And speaking of instant gratification, the song also got used to promote Ameristar Casinos.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_fe6cdec	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_fe6cdec	featureConfidence	1.0
Nickelback (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_fe6cdec
Isn't It Ironic? / int_ff66c30e	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? / int_ff66c30e	comment	In a popular video on The Muppets' Youtube channel, Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show sings The Guess Who's "American Woman", in which the singer tells the titular woman to get away from him. Sam doesn't even make it past the first two lines before realizing his mistake.
Isn't It Ironic? / int_ff66c30e	featureApplicability	1.0
Isn't It Ironic? / int_ff66c30e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Muppets (Franchise)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_ff66c30e

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Prez (2015) (Comic Book) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
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Battleship / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Captain Marvel (2019) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Con Air / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Grey Gardens / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Nope / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Salesman / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Silver Linings Playbook / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Tusk (2014) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Watchmen / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Cat Planet Cuties / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Flower Drum Song / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
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IsntitIronic	sameAs	Isn't It Ironic?
Disintegration (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Disintegration (Album) (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Jagged Little Pill (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Lesley Gore (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
London Calling (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Make Believe (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Master of Puppets (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Metallica (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Neil Diamond (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Rage Against the Machine (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Sandy & Junior (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Sia (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Space Oddity (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Tattoo You (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
The Downward Spiral (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
The Future (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
YOASOBI (Music) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
GTA Radio (Radio) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Cosmos / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Eureka / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Forever (2014) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
iZombie / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
MasterChef / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Mock the Week / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Soy Luna / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Touched by an Angel / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Elite Beat Agents (Video Game) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Lutheran Satire (Web Video) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Strawberry Dragon Project (Web Video) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Foxes in Love (Webcomic) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
LEGO Space: The Comic (Webcomic) / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Allen Gregory / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Wreck-It Ralph / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?

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