Isn't It Ironic?: Difference between revisions

** Granted, the reason Palin used that song was because her nickname in high school was "Saracuda", and that was something that her supporters were aware of at the time. Might bring up some [[Unfortunate Implications]] but at least they weren't using the song because of some perceived lyrical meaning.

* In 2009, the British National Party used the Manic Street Preachers' "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" on their website, without permission. The song contains the lines "If I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists". The song was removed when Sony threatened legal action.

* "[[Cabaret|Tomorrow Belongs to Me]]" has been recorded by more than one White Nationalist band. At least they're honest.

* Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, sang John Lennon's "Imagine" with a little Asian girl for a photo op during his 2011 campaign trail. Stephen Harper is a conservative who planned to buy warplanes to wage war in the middle east, boost military spending, reduce gun control, and has much of his backing from conservative religious communities. [[Yoko Ono]] was so displeased, she demanded that [[YouTube]] pull all videos of the performance.

** During this performance, his only comment was "I might get in trouble for that line!" referring to "Imagine there's no heaven." 'Cause, you know, that's the most jarring part of a pro-war state leader singing a song about world peace through enlightened anarchy.

** PM Harper had earlier sang "I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends" with the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra during a parliamentary crisis in which all the other party leaders threatened to band together and form a coalition government against him.

* Former British prime minister [[Tony Blair]] attempted to give his "New Labour" makeover mass credibility and some glamour by pulling in stars of music, theatre and TV to Downing Street parties and receptions. He called his new era ''Cool Britannia''. Had he or his party wonks properly done their homework, they would have realised this is the title of a Bonzo Dog Doodah Band musical parody from thirty years previously, when Britain was being called "cool" for different reasons in 1967. The musical pranksters performed a deliberately discordant and amateurish jazzed-up version of ''Rule Britannia'' with extremely corny new lyrics, involving what was then in-slang being sung in a very plummy British accent that palpably fails to sound cool or with-it. ''Cool Britannia, Britannia, you are cool! (Take a trip!)/Britons ever, ever, ever, shall be hip! Groovy, mama!'' After this was pointed out, Blair's big idea of Cool Britannia was quietly dropped. It is understood that surviving Bonzos such as [[Neil Innes]] put in a claim against the British government for copyright money for the use of their intellectual property.. They certainly, very pointedly, revived the piece for reunion gigs in the early 2000's, dedicating it to Tony (Blair) and Gordon (Brown).

* In a reverse of the way it usually goes (ironic song being used unironically), ads for Discovery Channel's show ''Who The [Bleep] Did I Marry?!,'' about people who married criminals without knowing their histories, used the first few lines of Peter, Bjorn and John's "Young Folks" (''If you knew the things I did before, told you who I used to be, would you go along with me?''). The lyrics are meant to invoke sleaziness and artifice in their use in the commercial... But in the [http://youtu.be/51V1VMkuyx0 actual song], not only are they not malicious (seeming to be more about past relationships than anything else), the female singer implies she has a similar past (unlike in the show).