Remember in the 90s when *everyone* knew the lyrics to Alanis Morisette’s Ironic?
Memorable lines such as ‘meeting the man of my dreams, then meeting his beautiful wife’, ‘rain on your wedding day’ and ‘the free ride, when you’ve already paid’ were so easy to sing along to – even if they weren’t *exactly* examples of irony.
We’d say these instances aren’t so much ironic as examples of how cruel life can be. But we all sang along any way.
Appearing on James Corden’s The Late Late Show in the US, the Canadian singer performed her 1995 hit with updated lyrics.
Singing alongside Corden, in matching red beanies and plaits in a nod to what she wore in the original video, Morisette pokes fun at new cultural norms such as vapeing, Snapchat, and Uber.
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Other lyrics refer to Tinder: ‘It’s like swiping left on your future soulmate,’ and new iPhone releases: ‘it’s like they announce a new iPhone the day after you buy it’ and Facebook: ‘an old friend sends you a Facebook request and you only find out they’re racist after you accept’.
Whether these lyrics are any more ironic than the original set is questionable - something Morissette alluded to with the line ‘it’s singing ironic but there are no ironies’.
Watch the video here:
