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"Alanis Morissette's popular 1995 song 'Ironic' breathed new life into the ongoing controversy over the definition of irony. The song attracted a great deal of attention from prescriptivists for its (arguably) blatant misuse of the word 'ironic'. Morissette's alleged misuses of the word include the following:
It's like a traffic jam / When you're already late
He won the lottery / And died the next day
Among those who assert that the song uses an invalid definition of irony, many find it ironic that Morissette would write a song titled 'Ironic' with no actual irony in it. In 2004, Morissette herself acknowledged that the song doesn't live up to the definition, which is what makes it ironic. But even that is not technically ironic."
