who sings it's like rain on your wedding day
Ironic (song) The song's usage of the word "ironic" attracted media attention for an improper application of the term; according to Jon Pareles of The New York Times, the song gives a distinct "unironic" sense in its implications.[5][6] According to the Oxford English Dictionary "irony" is "a figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used".[7] Thus, lyrics such as "It's like rain on your wedding day" and "A traffic jam when you're already late" are not ironic.[8] Morissette commented about the writing of the song: "For me the great debate on whether what I was saying in 'Ironic' was ironic wasn't a traumatic debate. I'd always embraced the fact that every once in a while I'd be the malapropism queen. And when Glen and I were writing it, we definitely were not doggedly making sure that everything was technically ironic".[8] In 2014, Michael Reid Roberts penned for Salon.com a defense of the song's use of the term "ironic", as the song cites situational ironies,[9] which is defined as the "state of affairs or event[s] that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result",[10] as some of the situations described in the lyrics could in fact be said to be "ironic".[9]