Isn't It Ironic?: Difference between revisions

* In-universe example in ''[[30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]'': Jenna and her mom use a karoake performance of "Do That To Me One More Time" to celebrate their reconciliation. This provides the page quote.

* ''American Idol'' had last year's winner Kris Allen perform on stage accompanied by a montage of Haiti relief efforts. The song? "Let It Be". Talk about innapropriate...

* Oh, David Copperfield, sweetie, you keep playing that song. [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=749 I do not think it means] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ElNtH8i7O0 what you think it means]. [[Squick|Unless of course child molestation, insanity, and suicide were what you were trying to imply here]].

* An early episode of the original ''[[Beverly Hills 90210]]'' had Brandon dating a teen mother with a baby named Joey. They constantly played Concrete Blonde's hit single "Joey" during the episode. The song is about a woman in a co-dependent relationship deciding to stay with her alcoholic lover.

* [[Rihanna]]'s "Te Amo" is celebrated as a song of lesbian love ("Te amo, te amo [I love you], she says to me...") - except that in the song Rihanna rejects the other girl because she doesn't feel the same way (whether it's towards the other girl specifically or just women in general is not made clear).

* In 2001, some bright spark at Air France decided that Madonna's cover of "American Pie" would make wonderful inflight entertainment. "American Pie" is about the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper in a plane crash.

* Randy Newman's "I Love LA" tends to be played whenever the music director of a film / TV show set in Los Angeles needs a soundtrack for an "isn't it great to be in LA?" scene. A closer listen to the lyrics would reveal that the song is, if not outright cynical, then at least ambivalent about exactly how great a place Los Angeles (and the narrator of the song, who is at one point heard to be chortling over the suffering of a homeless person) is.

* Many [[Kidz Bop]] albums (probably all of them) give shades of this when you hear children cheerfully singing gems like "Oops!... I Did It Again" (about toying with another's emotions), "Burn" (about a devastating breakup), "Dirty Little Secret" (about cheating in a relationship), amongst others. Ostensibly, this is a good alternative to letting your kid listen to the songs as they're originally recorded by artists with dubious wholesomeness... but if they're covering unwholesome songs to begin with, what's the point? A few lyrical tweaks don't make most of them kid-friendly.