Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry - Be Happy” is sarcastic.
To me, it’s clearly about stoicism.
Little Oxford Dictionary, 1986 edition. Ma girl is good.
The use of words for something other than their literal intention. Now that. Is. Irony. 🎶
“Black fly in your Chardonnay” is only ironic if after a long day of gassing your house with Raid, tacking up screens, installing fly paper, putting all your trash out and deep cleaning every inch of the house to rid yourself of an infestation of black flies, you finally sat down with a cold glass of white wine to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor.
That is my very favorite verse.
This song is unironically ironic.
There are several different kinds of irony.
Isn’t it ironic, that it lacks irony, hence unexpectedly wraps back around to containing irony (about the lack of irony)?
Is this tenet or inception of irony?
The irony is the lack of irony.
Dramatic irony.
a little tooo ironic…
what is the appropriate amount of irony in a scale of low grade ore to laboratory grade elemental irony
Don’t ya think?
IT’S LIKE RAYY-EE-AYYYYYYYYNNN
