Dear Alanis Morissette,
I like a lot your songs, I always read very carefully the lyrics and enjoy them all, but yesterday I paid special attention to one of your most famous hit songs (“Ironic”). I realized that the concept that you have of irony is very different from the concept I have. Let me explain it to you. I Know three types of Irony (verbal, dramatic, and situational), each one represent a very different kind of Irony. Verbal Irony has to do with a difference between what the speaker says and what the speaker means. Dramatic Irony is a difference between what a character in a story knows and what the reader or ausience knows, as in “Romeo and Juliet”. And finally, Situational Irony has relation to a difference between what someone meant to happen and what actually happened as a result of her actions. After that short explanation I would like to say that I just found one concrete example of Irony in your whole song, that fact does not mean that your song is bad or something like that, all the way around, it is great!! But, anyway it is wrong, and makes the people who is studying discourse misunderstand the real concept of what Irony means.
Oh! I forgot giving you the only one example of Irony I found in your song, this is in the third stanza:
“Well isn't this nice...”
This is a clear example of “verbal Irony” because this phrase is being used in a real moment, and when it should not be said. (His plane has crashed down!) A great example of Irony.
Alanis, I hope you do not get angry with me for being so sincere but I had to explain to you this.
I look forward to hearing from you...
Abbie.
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