What songs would you consider ironic?

“Die klügsten Männer der Welt” – Die Ärzte

Like a Prayer by Madonna is about blowjobs.

Hallelujah has nothing to do with religion.

This is the top one on all lists. Isn’t it Ironic

Who would have thought…It figures!

@ragingloli I would disagree with that interpretation. Even Madonna herself stated inspiration for the track came from the Catholic belief of transubstantiation, the change of essence by which the bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of the sacrament during the Mass, become, in reality, the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
She later changed the context of the song so the lyrics had dual meaning. Producer and Cowriter Patrick Leonard was not comfortable with the lyrics and innuendos but Madonna was adament to keep them.

@LadyMarissa Yes, I always find it ironic when the angelic boys choirs of cathedrals sing “Hallelujah”! (Although he did write hundreds of verses for it and a few of them are religious.)

In Spite of Ourselves by John Prine has a lot of irony in it.

Wild horses, by Gino Vanelli (don’t know if I spelled his name right) is about forcing himself on a woman.

Puppy Love sung by Donny Osmond when he was, like, 12.

I LOVE “Hallelujah”! It’s about a man’s search for religion and how he keeps getting thrown off track.

@Dutchess_III It’s about many things and you can love it and there still be some irony in the way it’s interpreted.

I agree.

Ironic by Alanis Morisette because…

I always find it quite ironic that this song about a love lost could generate in me bittersweet feelings almost to the point
of being happy?

I really should be down, brokenhearted and suffering about a love lost I experienced.

But the great sounding voices, the melody, the beat all seem to bring me to a place of healing.

https://youtu.be/ZTt649Hvtxs?si=5LrpM-6ln9wLif9C

I know there is another ironic song that has the same effect on me but the title isn’t coming to me right now.

I first read the other question as ”...ironic”, so I thought of an ironic song.
But the effort of thinking of an iconic song made me forget the ironic song. :-p

I think the irony of the Alanis tune is that rain on your wedding day by itself isn’t really ironic; it’s just meteorological happenstance.

If the person getting married was a meteorologist who forecast no rain in Antarctica, then I think that would be ironic.

The mention of the OP’s state of residence in this song might make its inclusion in this thread somewhat ironic, but perhaps it’s just geographically appropriate.

Oh God @SQUEEKS. My boyfriend in college played a Geno Vanelli album the first time I went to his place. Hopefully he didn’t know about Wild Horses.
Also, we dated fir the 3 years I was in school. That first night was the only night he played Geno Vanelli.
What’s up with guys and their Barry White music and shit?

@mazingerz88…Soul Train??? Well I’m sure I saw the original in the early 70s.
Good song.

^^Pretty sure there’s a song this time from the 80s that to me is as ironic as The Love I Lost. Just can’t recall right now what that song is.

I love these two songs. They’re emotionally therapeutic.

Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” is pretty ironic.