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Ironic (song)

January 01, 1970

"Ironic" is a song by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette. It was released in February 1996 as the third single from her third studio album, Jagged Little Pill (1995). It was written by Morissette and Glen Ballard, and was produced by him. The lyrics present several situations that are described as "ironic"; this has led to debate as to whether any of these actually match the accepted meaning of irony.[2]

"Ironic"
Canadian limited edition of North American artwork
Single by Alanis Morissette
from the album Jagged Little Pill
B-side
  • "You Oughta Know" (acoustic/live)
  • "Forgiven" (live)
  • "Not the Doctor" (live)
  • "Wake Up" (live)
ReleasedFebruary 27, 1996
Recorded1994 – April 1995
Genre
Length3:48
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Glen Ballard
Alanis Morissette singles chronology
"Hand in My Pocket"
(1995) 		"Ironic"
(1996) 		"Head over Feet"
(1996)
Music video
"Ironic" on YouTube

For six weeks, the track topped the Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, eventually becoming the second-most-successful song of the year in the country. It also reached the top five in Australia, New Zealand, and Norway. In the United States, the song reached number four on April 13, 1996, and since then it has been her highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100. "Ironic" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song won the Juno Award for Single of the Year, and received two Grammy Award nominations in 1997, for Record of the Year and Best Short Form Music Video. French director Stéphane Sednaoui filmed the music video. In it, Morissette drives through a winter landscape, and she plays multiple roles as her passengers. MTV nominated the music video for six MTV Video Music Awards in 1996, winning three of them. The music video was listed on VH1's "Greatest Music Videos" list and was parodied by DBA Flip, Allison Rheaume, Rusty and "Weird Al" Yankovic.

"Ironic" was included on the set list of Morissette's Jagged Little Pill World Tour (1995), and her compilation albums MTV Unplugged (1999), The Collection (2005), among others. The song was covered by Mexican duet Jesse & Joy for their album Esta Es Mi Vida Sesiones (2007), and by American band Four Year Strong for their cover album Explains It All (2009).

Writing and composition edit

 
"Ironic"
A 22-second sample of the first verse and chorus of "Ironic". Its chord progression changes as the latter begins. It is in the key of B major with a tempo of 92 bpm.
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"Ironic" was written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, and produced by the latter for her third studio album, Jagged Little Pill (1995).[3] 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'".[4] According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Universal Music Publishing, it is set in common time, with a moderate tempo of 92 beats per minute,[5] and played in the key of B major (with the chorus being based on the F♯ Mixolydian scale). Morissette's vocal range from the tone of E5 to A♯5, and "Ironic" chord progression starts with the sequence of Emaj7–F♯6–Emaj7–F♯6, before changing to F♯–Badd9–F♯–G♯m7 in the chorus.[5]

Linguistic dispute edit

The song's usage of the word ironic attracted media attention; according to Jon Pareles of The New York Times, it gives a distinct "unironic" sense in its implications.[6][7] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, irony is "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what was or might be expected; an outcome cruelly, humorously, or strangely at odds with assumptions or expectations".[8] From a prescriptivist perspective, lyrics such as "It's a free ride when you've already paid" and "A traffic jam when you're already late" are thus not ironic.[9]

Morissette said: "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."[9] In 2014, Michael Reid Roberts wrote a defense of the song for Salon, saying that it cites situational ironies:[10] the "state of affairs or event[s] that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result".[10] Michael Stevens of the YouTube channel Vsauce devoted time to the discussion of irony in the 2014 episode "Dord". In this video, Stevens considers the difference between the typically cited "situational" irony, versus "dramatic" irony. According to him, the irony of the song may not necessarily be in the situations themselves, but rather in the dramatic irony – when someone is unaware of the significance of the event while others are: the situations aren't ironic themselves, but life itself is ironic.[11]

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."[9] 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".[12] 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. For example, "it's like rain on your wedding day, to the Egyptian sun god Ra."[13][14] The CollegeHumor spoof was similarly replicated in July 2013 with a song called, "It's Finally Ironic" by sisters Rachael and Eliza Hurwitz, from New York City, who published their version on YouTube.[15] The sisters adjusted the lyrics to reflect irony (e.g., "it's a black fly in your chardonnay, that was specifically purchased to repel black flies") and sing the line "We fixed it for you, Alanis. You're welcome." throughout their video.[16] 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").[17] 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".[18] Morissette further poked fun at herself in a 2015 performance of an updated version "Ironic" on The Late Late Show with James Corden, in which she added the line "It’s singing 'Ironic', when there are no ironies" to the song.[19]

Reception edit

 
Morissette in 2008

Critical response edit

Jaime Gill from Dot Music commented on the original version of "Ironic", on his review of Jagged Little Pill Acoustic (2005), that "[Jagged Little Pill] gave us pop's greatest parlour game, with spot the genuine irony in 'Ironic'" and calling the song "pretty" and "catchy". Additionally, he noted that the acoustic version “actually sounds more relaxed and engaging without the hoary loud guitars of the original".[20] Even though Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic marked the track as one of the "All Media Guide track pick" of the album,[21] in a separate review, from the same website, the CD single release was rated with two-and-a-half out of five stars.[22] Pareles noted that in verses of "Ironic", and another song from the album ("Mary Jane"), "it's easy to envision Morissette on the stage of a club, singing wry couplets backed by acoustic guitar".[23] He also commented in another article he wrote, that the song was actually "unironic".[7] British magazine Music Week rated it four out of five, noting that it "builds into another powerful anthem with beautiful echoes of The Cocteau Twins. It could see her break into the Top 20 for the first time."[24] Dave Brecheisen of PopMatters felt that the acoustic version of "Ironic", was much worse than the original version.[25] The single won the Juno Award for Single of the Year at the 1997 ceremony,[26] and in the same year it was nominated for a Grammy Award, in the category of Record of the Year.[27][28][29]

Chart performance edit

In Canada, "Ironic" debuted on the RPM 100 Hit Tracks at number 95 on the issue dated January 8, 1996.[30] Twelve weeks later the track topped the chart, on April 1, 1996,[31] staying there for six weeks,[32] being replaced by "Closer to Free" by American band BoDeans.[33] Spending twenty-nine weeks within the top 100, it was last seen on July 22, 1996, at number 81.[34] It spent 14 weeks in the top 10 and was the number-two song of 1996, behind Morissette's own "You Learn" at number one. On other RPM charts, the single topped the Alternative 30 for a single week, spending 11 weeks in the top 10,[35] finishing 1996 as the number-five song for the year on that chart. It reached number six on the Adult Contemporary Tracks chart.[36]

In the U.S., the track debuted at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 following its commercial release, becoming the highest debut on the issue ending March 16, 1996.[37] The single eventually reached its peak position, at number four, on April 13, 1996.[38] "Ironic" is currently Morissette's highest-charting hit on the Hot 100 chart.[39] On other US charts, the single became her third number-one hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart,[40] where it stayed for three weeks.[37][41][42] The song topped the Top 40/Mainstream chart, reached number five on Adult Top 40 and peaked at number 28 on the Adult Contemporary chart.[43]

In Australia, the song debuted at number 40 on the ARIA Singles Chart.[44] In its eighth week, it peaked at number three on May 12, 1996, where it stayed for two weeks. It was last appeared on the chart on July 21, 1996, at number 37. As of 2024, "Ironic" is her best-charting song on the country.[44] In New Zealand, where the song was released as a double A-side with "You Oughta Know",[45] it debuted at number 13 on April 21, 1996, peaked at number three on May 19, and made its last appearance on the chart at number 36 on June 30, staying at total of 11 weeks in the top 50.[46] Like in Australia, "Ironic" became Morissette's highest-peaking single in New Zealand, but only at the time; "Thank U" and "Hands Clean" would chart higher in 1998 and 2002, respectively.[47]

The song was generally well-received throughout Europe. In the United Kingdom "Ironic" debuted and peaked at number 11, on April 20, 1996. It left the chart eight weeks later, at number 67.[48] In the Norwegian Singles Charts, it debuted at number 18, rising to number 17 the next week. It rose to number five on its third week, and later peaked at number four, staying there for five weeks. It later dropped one place, and remained there for another two weeks. "Ironic" kept within the chart for seventeen weeks.[49] In Belgium, it reached sixth place on the Ultratop 50 (Flanders region), and ninth place on the Ultratop 50 (Wallonia zone).[50][51]

2001 Clear Channel memorandum edit

In September 2001, following the September 11 attacks, "Ironic" was included in Clear Channel Communications's (now iHeartMedia) list of "lyrically questionable" songs, commonly known as the Clear Channel memorandum.[52] This was presumably due to the song's second verse, which tells the story of a man flying in an airplane that crashes.[53]

Promotion edit

Music video edit

 
A Lincoln Continental Mark V. In the music video, Morissette appears driving a similar car.

The music video for "Ironic" was directed by Stéphane Sednaoui[54][55] and released on January 23, 1996.[56] In the beginning of the video, Morissette is at a gas station, walking to her automobile (1978 Lincoln Continental Mark V) with a cup of coffee in her hand. Then, she drives her car through a winter landscape, and she begins to sing the song's first verse. When it comes to the chorus, a second Morissette comes in. She is in a green sweater and sits in the backseat on the passenger side. When the first chorus ends, a third Morissette comes in, and she is in a yellow sweater with braided hair, also in the backseat, but on the driver's side. Along the way, the yellow Morissette is singing and eating at the same time, and when it comes to the second verse, a fourth and last Morissette comes in, she is in a red sweater sitting in the front passenger seat. During the second chorus, she climbs out of the window when they are still driving and almost gets knocked out by a bridge, but still manages a smile after doing so. The camera comes back to the driving Morissette, after the breakdown, and she takes off her hat, tosses it into the back seat, and becomes as loud as the other three while singing the song. When Morissette sings the outro, she is still driving through the winter landscape, and suddenly the car breaks down (possibly having run out of gas, which may be "ironic" in itself since the video started with her at a gas station). Morissette (as the driver) gets out of the car, and all her "passengers" have disappeared.

In an interview for Vogue in 2015, Morissette revealed that her clothes in the video reflected the personalities of each character. The driver in a red knit beanie was the one in control, "the responsible one". The spunky character, who Morissette refers to as the “quirkster,” wears a yellow sweater with a crown of long swaying braids. Morissette liked the braids so much that she would often wear them on stage. The passenger-seat girl wearing a deep red sweater and pajama-type pants was "the romantic—wistful and thoughtful and also the risk-taker". As for the girl head-banging in the backseat in green sweater, Morissette said; "The girl in green feels the most like the 'whole me'. The green sweater girl—fun and frolic-y. [She] gets into trouble—she's the girl you want with you when you are heading to a water park."[57]

Blaine Allan noted in the book Television: Critical Methods and Applications (2002) how Morissette interacts with the watcher. He commented that unlike Britney Spears' "Lucky" music video, where Spears plays dual role of a girl named "Lucky" and her fan, and both appear together in some scenes helped by visual effects, "Ironic" does not utilize them, using solely editing, giving the sense that all the Morissettes interact with each other.[58] Journalist Carol Vernallis also found that Morissette's "chitchat" way of singing the song creates an intimate connection with the viewer. She mentioned the video in her book Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context (2004), where she studied how the audience may pay attention to the lyrics of the song in a music video. Vernallis added that "Ironic" music video functions as a limited example of how the meaning of a song's lyrics become "inaccessible" when they are videotaped and televised.[59]

Charles Aaron from Spin called "Ironic" music video "neat".[60] The video was nominated for six MTV Video Music Awards in 1996: "Video of the Year", "Best Direction in a Video", "Viewer's Choice", "Best Female Video", "Best New Artist in a Video" and "Best Editing", winning the last three.[61] It was nominated in 1997 for the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.[62] Also, it was listed number eighteen at VH1's 100 Greatest Videos.[63]

In late 1996, a parody version of the video was released featuring a 6-year-old Canadian girl named Allison Rheaume, who mimics Morissette's actions and wardrobe while lip syncing to the original song.[64] At the end, her father notices her in the car sitting in the driveway and tells her to stop fooling around. This version of the video, directed by David Rheaume,[65] was played on MTV and was included on Morissette's CD/DVD The Collection (2005).[66] Also in late 1996, the video was spoofed by Jimmy The Cab Driver during a commercial on MTV.[64] Inglewood, CA rapper DBA Flip parodied the video for his 1996 single "It's Friday Night (Just Got Paid)". At the end of the video, Flip's car runs out of gas as he rolls up on an Alanis Morissette lookalike carrying a gas can and wearing one of the jackets from the "You Learn" video.[67]

Canadian band Rusty parodied "Ironic" on the version 2 of the music video for their 1997 single "Empty Cell".[68] "Weird Al" Yankovic produced a parody version of the video in 2003 for his television comedy series Al TV, in which he takes the place of the fourth version of Morissette in the front passenger seat.[69][unreliable source] In 2018, Toronto R&B singer Ramriddlz paid tribute to "Ironic" on the music video for his single "Worst Love".[70]

Live performances edit

The single was added in the set list for Morissette's concert tour, Jagged Little Pill World Tour (1995).[71] The song was added to the tour's video album Jagged Little Pill Live (1997).[71] Since then, "Ironic" has been included in her albums MTV Unplugged (1999),[72] Feast on Scraps (2002),[73] Live in the Navajo Nation (2002),[74] and The Collection,[75] as well as 1997 Grammys and the MTV Unplugged compilation albums.[76][77]

With "Ironic", Morissette denoted her support for same-sex marriage. In March 2004, Morissette amended a lyric at the fifteenth annual GLAAD Media Awards: "It's meeting the man of my dreams /And then meeting his beautiful husband".[78][79] She commented to USA Today that her support about same-sex unions "goes a step further than clever lyrics."[80] She remarked that "[her] fantasy would now be to marry some of [her] gay couple friends."[80] Later in June 2004, she said to VH1: "I don't have any gay-couple friends who are formally engaged, but I would be honored to support the gay community in that way ... I did it as a sort of spontaneous thing at a radio station about a month ago with a couple, and my heart was so with them."[78] Morissette recorded an acoustic version of the song with the changed lyric for her iTunes Originals release, in 2004.[81] Another acoustic version was recorded for the album Jagged Little Pill Acoustic,[82][83] as well for the compilation album Cities 97 Sampler, Volume 16 (2004).[84] Morissette also performed the song with Avril Lavigne at the House of Blues in 2005.[85]

Track listings edit

Personnel edit

Personnel are adapted from the "Ironic" CD single.[3]

Charts edit

Certifications edit

Certifications and sales for "Ironic"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[112] Gold 35,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[131] Gold 45,000‡
France (SNEP)[132] Gold 250,000*
Italy (FIMI)[133]
sales since 2009 		Gold 35,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[134] Gold 5,000*
Norway (IFPI Norway)[135] Gold  
United Kingdom (BPI)[137] Platinum 664,000[136]
United States (RIAA)[139] Gold 600,000[138]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history edit

Release dates and formats for "Ironic"
Region Date Format(s) Label Ref(s).
Canada February 27, 1996
  • CD single
  • cassette single
  • maxi single
 Warner Bros. [140][141]
France [142]
United States [143][144]
United Kingdom April 8, 1996
  • CD single
  • cassette single
 Maverick [145]
Germany April 19, 1996 Warner Bros. [146]
Japan June 25, 1996 CD single
[147]

Covers and use in media edit

In 2003, Ji-In Cho covered the song for the German version of the Fame Academy talent show, which became a success in the German charts.[148] "Ironic" was covered in 2007 by Mexican duet Jesse & Joy for their album Esta Es Mi Vida Sesiones,[149] and the pop punk band Four Year Strong for their 90s cover album Explains It All (2009).[150]

In the 1996 novel Naïve. Super by Norwegian author Erlend Loe, the protagonist watches the video for the song on television and dreams about "meeting an Alanis-girl and living in a house together with her".[151] In a season 4 episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman entitled "Bob and Carol and Lois and Clark" (1996) several characters make joking references to the song not really being about irony at all throughout the episode.[152] In the Jay and Silent Bob comic Chasing Dogma (1998), the character Tricia Jones is singing "Ironic" before Jay steps into the shower.[153] The music of the song was featured in the romantic comedy film I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007), where Saoirse Ronan, as Izzie Mensforth, sings an altered version of the lyrics in a talent show.[154] It also made a predominant appearance as the opener to 2013 comedy film The Internship, starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, as they sing along to it.[155]

In 2015, Morissette appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden and sang a version of the song with new lyrics "updated" for the technology era, and an homage to the linguistics of the original mentioned above.[156]

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  • "Alanis Morissette – Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved August 23, 2006.
  • Boon, Andrew, "The Search for Irony: a textual analysis of the lyrics of Ironic by Alanis Morissette", The Reading Matrix, 5: 129–142 (2005).
  • How we learned to love Alanis Morissette's 'irony' – discussion of the definition of "irony" which is hotly disputed in this song

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Ironic is a song by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette It was released in February 1996 as the third single from her third studio album Jagged Little Pill 1995 It was written by Morissette and Glen Ballard and was produced by him The lyrics present several situations that are described as ironic this has led to debate as to whether any of these actually match the accepted meaning of irony 2 Ironic Canadian limited edition of North American artworkSingle by Alanis Morissettefrom the album Jagged Little PillB side You Oughta Know acoustic live Forgiven live Not the Doctor live Wake Up live ReleasedFebruary 27 1996Recorded1994 April 1995GenreAlternative rock post grunge 1 Length3 48LabelMaverick Warner Bros Songwriter s Alanis Morissette Glen BallardProducer s Glen BallardAlanis Morissette singles chronology Hand in My Pocket 1995 Ironic 1996 Head over Feet 1996 Music video Ironic on YouTube For six weeks the track topped the Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart eventually becoming the second most successful song of the year in the country It also reached the top five in Australia New Zealand and Norway In the United States the song reached number four on April 13 1996 and since then it has been her highest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 Ironic was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA The song won the Juno Award for Single of the Year and received two Grammy Award nominations in 1997 for Record of the Year and Best Short Form Music Video French director Stephane Sednaoui filmed the music video In it Morissette drives through a winter landscape and she plays multiple roles as her passengers MTV nominated the music video for six MTV Video Music Awards in 1996 winning three of them The music video was listed on VH1 s Greatest Music Videos list and was parodied by DBA Flip Allison Rheaume Rusty and Weird Al Yankovic Ironic was included on the set list of Morissette s Jagged Little Pill World Tour 1995 and her compilation albums MTV Unplugged 1999 The Collection 2005 among others The song was covered by Mexican duet Jesse amp Joy for their album Esta Es Mi Vida Sesiones 2007 and by American band Four Year Strong for their cover album Explains It All 2009 Contents 1 Writing and composition 1 1 Linguistic dispute 2 Reception 2 1 Critical response 2 2 Chart performance 2 3 2001 Clear Channel memorandum 3 Promotion 3 1 Music video 3 2 Live performances 4 Track listings 5 Personnel 6 Charts 6 1 Weekly charts 6 2 Year end charts 7 Certifications 8 Release history 9 Covers and use in media 10 See also 11 References 12 External linksWriting and composition edit nbsp Ironic source source track A 22 second sample of the first verse and chorus of Ironic Its chord progression changes as the latter begins It is in the key of B major with a tempo of 92 bpm Problems playing this file See media help Ironic was written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard and produced by the latter for her third studio album Jagged Little Pill 1995 3 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 4 According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes com by Universal Music Publishing it is set in common time with a moderate tempo of 92 beats per minute 5 and played in the key of B major with the chorus being based on the F Mixolydian scale Morissette s vocal range from the tone of E5 to A 5 and Ironic chord progression starts with the sequence of Emaj7 F 6 Emaj7 F 6 before changing to F Badd9 F G m7 in the chorus 5 Linguistic dispute edit The song s usage of the word ironic attracted media attention according to Jon Pareles of The New York Times it gives a distinct unironic sense in its implications 6 7 According to the Oxford English Dictionary irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what was or might be expected an outcome cruelly humorously or strangely at odds with assumptions or expectations 8 From a prescriptivist perspective lyrics such as It s a free ride when you ve already paid and A traffic jam when you re already late are thus not ironic 9 Morissette said 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 9 In 2014 Michael Reid Roberts wrote a defense of the song for Salon saying that it cites situational ironies 10 the state of affairs or event s that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result 10 Michael Stevens of the YouTube channel Vsauce devoted time to the discussion of irony in the 2014 episode Dord In this video Stevens considers the difference between the typically cited situational irony versus dramatic irony According to him the irony of the song may not necessarily be in the situations themselves but rather in the dramatic irony when someone is unaware of the significance of the event while others are the situations aren t ironic themselves but life itself is ironic 11 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 9 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 12 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 For example it s like rain on your wedding day to the Egyptian sun god Ra 13 14 The CollegeHumor spoof was similarly replicated in July 2013 with a song called It s Finally Ironic by sisters Rachael and Eliza Hurwitz from New York City who published their version on YouTube 15 The sisters adjusted the lyrics to reflect irony e g it s a black fly in your chardonnay that was specifically purchased to repel black flies and sing the line We fixed it for you Alanis You re welcome throughout their video 16 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 17 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 18 Morissette further poked fun at herself in a 2015 performance of an updated version Ironic on The Late Late Show with James Corden in which she added the line It s singing Ironic when there are no ironies to the song 19 Reception edit nbsp Morissette in 2008 Critical response edit Jaime Gill from Dot Music commented on the original version of Ironic on his review of Jagged Little Pill Acoustic 2005 that Jagged Little Pill gave us pop s greatest parlour game with spot the genuine irony in Ironic and calling the song pretty and catchy Additionally he noted that the acoustic version actually sounds more relaxed and engaging without the hoary loud guitars of the original 20 Even though Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic marked the track as one of the All Media Guide track pick of the album 21 in a separate review from the same website the CD single release was rated with two and a half out of five stars 22 Pareles noted that in verses of Ironic and another song from the album Mary Jane it s easy to envision Morissette on the stage of a club singing wry couplets backed by acoustic guitar 23 He also commented in another article he wrote that the song was actually unironic 7 British magazine Music Week rated it four out of five noting that it builds into another powerful anthem with beautiful echoes of The Cocteau Twins It could see her break into the Top 20 for the first time 24 Dave Brecheisen of PopMatters felt that the acoustic version of Ironic was much worse than the original version 25 The single won the Juno Award for Single of the Year at the 1997 ceremony 26 and in the same year it was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Record of the Year 27 28 29 Chart performance edit In Canada Ironic debuted on the RPM 100 Hit Tracks at number 95 on the issue dated January 8 1996 30 Twelve weeks later the track topped the chart on April 1 1996 31 staying there for six weeks 32 being replaced by Closer to Free by American band BoDeans 33 Spending twenty nine weeks within the top 100 it was last seen on July 22 1996 at number 81 34 It spent 14 weeks in the top 10 and was the number two song of 1996 behind Morissette s own You Learn at number one On other RPM charts the single topped the Alternative 30 for a single week spending 11 weeks in the top 10 35 finishing 1996 as the number five song for the year on that chart It reached number six on the Adult Contemporary Tracks chart 36 In the U S the track debuted at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 following its commercial release becoming the highest debut on the issue ending March 16 1996 37 The single eventually reached its peak position at number four on April 13 1996 38 Ironic is currently Morissette s highest charting hit on the Hot 100 chart 39 On other US charts the single became her third number one hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart 40 where it stayed for three weeks 37 41 42 The song topped the Top 40 Mainstream chart reached number five on Adult Top 40 and peaked at number 28 on the Adult Contemporary chart 43 In Australia the song debuted at number 40 on the ARIA Singles Chart 44 In its eighth week it peaked at number three on May 12 1996 where it stayed for two weeks It was last appeared on the chart on July 21 1996 at number 37 As of 2024 Ironic is her best charting song on the country 44 In New Zealand where the song was released as a double A side with You Oughta Know 45 it debuted at number 13 on April 21 1996 peaked at number three on May 19 and made its last appearance on the chart at number 36 on June 30 staying at total of 11 weeks in the top 50 46 Like in Australia Ironic became Morissette s highest peaking single in New Zealand but only at the time Thank U and Hands Clean would chart higher in 1998 and 2002 respectively 47 The song was generally well received throughout Europe In the United Kingdom Ironic debuted and peaked at number 11 on April 20 1996 It left the chart eight weeks later at number 67 48 In the Norwegian Singles Charts it debuted at number 18 rising to number 17 the next week It rose to number five on its third week and later peaked at number four staying there for five weeks It later dropped one place and remained there for another two weeks Ironic kept within the chart for seventeen weeks 49 In Belgium it reached sixth place on the Ultratop 50 Flanders region and ninth place on the Ultratop 50 Wallonia zone 50 51 2001 Clear Channel memorandum edit In September 2001 following the September 11 attacks Ironic was included in Clear Channel Communications s now iHeartMedia list of lyrically questionable songs commonly known as the Clear Channel memorandum 52 This was presumably due to the song s second verse which tells the story of a man flying in an airplane that crashes 53 Promotion editMusic video edit nbsp A Lincoln Continental Mark V In the music video Morissette appears driving a similar car The music video for Ironic was directed by Stephane Sednaoui 54 55 and released on January 23 1996 56 In the beginning of the video Morissette is at a gas station walking to her automobile 1978 Lincoln Continental Mark V with a cup of coffee in her hand Then she drives her car through a winter landscape and she begins to sing the song s first verse When it comes to the chorus a second Morissette comes in She is in a green sweater and sits in the backseat on the passenger side When the first chorus ends a third Morissette comes in and she is in a yellow sweater with braided hair also in the backseat but on the driver s side Along the way the yellow Morissette is singing and eating at the same time and when it comes to the second verse a fourth and last Morissette comes in she is in a red sweater sitting in the front passenger seat During the second chorus she climbs out of the window when they are still driving and almost gets knocked out by a bridge but still manages a smile after doing so The camera comes back to the driving Morissette after the breakdown and she takes off her hat tosses it into the back seat and becomes as loud as the other three while singing the song When Morissette sings the outro she is still driving through the winter landscape and suddenly the car breaks down possibly having run out of gas which may be ironic in itself since the video started with her at a gas station Morissette as the driver gets out of the car and all her passengers have disappeared In an interview for Vogue in 2015 Morissette revealed that her clothes in the video reflected the personalities of each character The driver in a red knit beanie was the one in control the responsible one The spunky character who Morissette refers to as the quirkster wears a yellow sweater with a crown of long swaying braids Morissette liked the braids so much that she would often wear them on stage The passenger seat girl wearing a deep red sweater and pajama type pants was the romantic wistful and thoughtful and also the risk taker As for the girl head banging in the backseat in green sweater Morissette said The girl in green feels the most like the whole me The green sweater girl fun and frolic y She gets into trouble she s the girl you want with you when you are heading to a water park 57 Blaine Allan noted in the book Television Critical Methods and Applications 2002 how Morissette interacts with the watcher He commented that unlike Britney Spears Lucky music video where Spears plays dual role of a girl named Lucky and her fan and both appear together in some scenes helped by visual effects Ironic does not utilize them using solely editing giving the sense that all the Morissettes interact with each other 58 Journalist Carol Vernallis also found that Morissette s chitchat way of singing the song creates an intimate connection with the viewer She mentioned the video in her book Experiencing Music Video Aesthetics and Cultural Context 2004 where she studied how the audience may pay attention to the lyrics of the song in a music video Vernallis added that Ironic music video functions as a limited example of how the meaning of a song s lyrics become inaccessible when they are videotaped and televised 59 Charles Aaron from Spin called Ironic music video neat 60 The video was nominated for six MTV Video Music Awards in 1996 Video of the Year Best Direction in a Video Viewer s Choice Best Female Video Best New Artist in a Video and Best Editing winning the last three 61 It was nominated in 1997 for the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video 62 Also it was listed number eighteen at VH1 s 100 Greatest Videos 63 In late 1996 a parody version of the video was released featuring a 6 year old Canadian girl named Allison Rheaume who mimics Morissette s actions and wardrobe while lip syncing to the original song 64 At the end her father notices her in the car sitting in the driveway and tells her to stop fooling around This version of the video directed by David Rheaume 65 was played on MTV and was included on Morissette s CD DVD The Collection 2005 66 Also in late 1996 the video was spoofed by Jimmy The Cab Driver during a commercial on MTV 64 Inglewood CA rapper DBA Flip parodied the video for his 1996 single It s Friday Night Just Got Paid At the end of the video Flip s car runs out of gas as he rolls up on an Alanis Morissette lookalike carrying a gas can and wearing one of the jackets from the You Learn video 67 Canadian band Rusty parodied Ironic on the version 2 of the music video for their 1997 single Empty Cell 68 Weird Al Yankovic produced a parody version of the video in 2003 for his television comedy series Al TV in which he takes the place of the fourth version of Morissette in the front passenger seat 69 unreliable source In 2018 Toronto R amp B singer Ramriddlz paid tribute to Ironic on the music video for his single Worst Love 70 Live performances edit The single was added in the set list for Morissette s concert tour Jagged Little Pill World Tour 1995 71 The song was added to the tour s video album Jagged Little Pill Live 1997 71 Since then Ironic has been included in her albums MTV Unplugged 1999 72 Feast on Scraps 2002 73 Live in the Navajo Nation 2002 74 and The Collection 75 as well as 1997 Grammys and the MTV Unplugged compilation albums 76 77 With Ironic Morissette denoted her support for same sex marriage In March 2004 Morissette amended a lyric at the fifteenth annual GLAAD Media Awards It s meeting the man of my dreams And then meeting his beautiful husband 78 79 She commented to USA Today that her support about same sex unions goes a step further than clever lyrics 80 She remarked that her fantasy would now be to marry some of her gay couple friends 80 Later in June 2004 she said to VH1 I don t have any gay couple friends who are formally engaged but I would be honored to support the gay community in that way I did it as a sort of spontaneous thing at a radio station about a month ago with a couple and my heart was so with them 78 Morissette recorded an acoustic version of the song with the changed lyric for her iTunes Originals release in 2004 81 Another acoustic version was recorded for the album Jagged Little Pill Acoustic 82 83 as well for the compilation album Cities 97 Sampler Volume 16 2004 84 Morissette also performed the song with Avril Lavigne at the House of Blues in 2005 85 Track listings editCD single cassette 3 22 Ironic 3 49 You Oughta Know acoustic live from the Grammy Awards 3 48 Mary Jane live 5 52 All I Really Want live 5 22 Special edition maxi CD single 22 86 Ironic album version 3 48 Forgiven live 6 09 Not the Doctor live 6 05 Wake Up live 5 05Personnel editPersonnel are adapted from the Ironic CD single 3 Alanis Morissette vocals producer writer Glen Ballard producer guitar writer Lance Morrison bass guitar Rob Ladd drums and percussion Michael Thompson organ Basil Fung guitar Chris Fogel mixingCharts editWeekly charts edit 1996 weekly chart performance for Ironic Chart 1996 Peakposition Australia ARIA 87 3 Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 88 6 Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 89 9 Canada Top Singles RPM 31 1 Canada Adult Contemporary RPM 36 6 Canada Rock Alternative RPM 35 1 Europe Eurochart Hot 100 90 22 France SNEP 91 16 Germany Official German Charts 92 8 Iceland Islenski Listinn Topp 40 93 8 Ireland IRMA 94 8 Netherlands Dutch Top 40 95 6 Netherlands Single Top 100 96 6 New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 46 with You Oughta Know 3 Norway VG lista 97 4 Scotland OCC 98 9 Sweden Sverigetopplistan 99 24 Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 100 9 UK Singles OCC 101 11 US Billboard Hot 100 102 4 US Adult Alternative Songs Billboard 103 7 US Adult Contemporary Billboard 104 28 US Adult Top 40 Billboard 105 5 US Alternative Airplay Billboard 106 1 US Mainstream Rock Billboard 107 18 US Mainstream Top 40 Billboard 108 1 US Rhythmic Billboard 109 11 2015 weekly chart performance for Ironic Chart 2015 Peakposition Poland Polish Airplay Top 100 110 81 2021 weekly chart performance for Ironic Chart 2021 Peakposition Canada Digital Song Sales Billboard 111 42 Year end charts edit Year end chart performance for Ironic Chart 1996 Position Australia ARIA 112 25 Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 113 31 Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 114 45 Canada Top Singles RPM 115 2 Canada Adult Contemporary RPM 116 37 Canada Rock Alternative RPM 117 5 Europe Eurochart Hot 100 118 61 France SNEP 119 57 Germany Official German Charts 120 40 Iceland Islenski Listinn Topp 40 121 38 Netherlands Dutch Top 40 122 39 Netherlands Single Top 100 123 46 Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 124 51 US Billboard Hot 100 125 13 US Adult Top 40 Billboard 126 14 US Mainstream Rock Tracks Billboard 127 82 US Modern Rock Tracks Billboard 128 18 US Top 40 Mainstream Billboard 129 1 US Top 40 Rhythm Crossover Billboard 130 54Certifications editCertifications and sales for Ironic Region Certification Certified units sales Australia ARIA 112 Gold 35 000 Denmark IFPI Danmark 131 Gold 45 000 France SNEP 132 Gold 250 000 Italy FIMI 133 sales since 2009 Gold 35 000 New Zealand RMNZ 134 Gold 5 000 Norway IFPI Norway 135 Gold United Kingdom BPI 137 Platinum 664 000 136 United States RIAA 139 Gold 600 000 138 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Release history editRelease dates and formats for Ironic Region Date Format s Label Ref s Canada February 27 1996 CD singlecassette singlemaxi single Warner Bros 140 141 France 142 United States 143 144 United Kingdom April 8 1996 CD singlecassette single Maverick 145 Germany April 19 1996 Warner Bros 146 Japan June 25 1996 CD single MaverickReprise 147 Covers and use in media editIn 2003 Ji In Cho covered the song for the German version of the Fame Academy talent show which became a success in the German charts 148 Ironic was covered in 2007 by Mexican duet Jesse amp Joy for their album Esta Es Mi Vida Sesiones 149 and the pop punk band Four Year Strong for their 90s cover album Explains It All 2009 150 In the 1996 novel Naive Super by Norwegian author Erlend Loe the protagonist watches the video for the song on television and dreams about meeting an Alanis girl and living in a house together with her 151 In a season 4 episode of Lois amp Clark The New Adventures of Superman entitled Bob and Carol and Lois and Clark 1996 several characters make joking references to the song not really being about irony at all throughout the episode 152 In the Jay and Silent Bob comic Chasing Dogma 1998 the character Tricia Jones is singing Ironic before Jay steps into the shower 153 The music of the song was featured in the romantic comedy film I Could Never Be Your Woman 2007 where Saoirse Ronan as Izzie Mensforth sings an altered version of the lyrics in a talent show 154 It also made a predominant appearance as the opener to 2013 comedy film The Internship starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as they sing along to it 155 In 2015 Morissette appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden and sang a version of the song with new lyrics updated for the technology era and an homage to the linguistics of the original mentioned above 156 See also editList of Mainstream Top 40 number one hits of 1996 U S List of RPM number one singles of 1996 Canada List of RPM Rock Alternative number one singles Canada Number one modern rock hits of 1996References edit Myers Owen January 22 2023 Kylie Minouge Impossible Princess Pitchfork Retrieved February 8 2023 Roberts Michael Reid May 8 2014 What everybody gets wrong about Alanis Morissette s Ironic Salon Retrieved July 24 2017 a b c Morissette Alanis 1996 Ironic Compact Disc Alanis Morissette California United States Maverick Records 9362 43700 2 4 Walsh Christopher June 30 2001 Boutique Distributors Make Noise Under The Radar Billboard Vol 113 no 26 Nielsen Business Media p 38 ISSN 0006 2510 a b Ironic Alanis Morissette Digital Sheet Music Digital Download Universal Music Publishing Ltd Musicnotes Inc May 2009 Waltonen Karma Du Vernay Denise 2010 The Simpsons in the classroom embiggening the learning experience with the wisdom of Springfield XVIII ed Jefferson North Carolina McFarland amp Company Inc Publishers p 277 ISBN 978 0 7864 4490 8 OCLC 492091426 a b Pareles Jon May 16 2004 MUSIC The Solipsisters Sing Out Once Again The New York Times Company Retrieved April 9 2011 irony Oxford English Dictionary Online ed Oxford University Press Subscription or participating institution membership required a b c Horberry Roger 2010 Sounds Good on Paper How to Bring Business Language to Life XVII ed London England A amp C Black Publishers Ldt p 136 ISBN 978 1 4081 2231 0 OCLC 659730168 A common misconception is that ironic is a direct synonym for coincidental The lyrics of Alanis Morissette s UK top 11 and US 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