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Alanis Morissette and James Corden update Ironic
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 11 November 2015
James Corden is still a big talk show host in the US. I bet you’d all forgotten that, hadn’t you? I know I had. The irony.
Maybe you were distracted by the fact that he’s just recorded a duet with Kylie Minogue. I know I was. And they’re not even playing it for laughs. It’s a genuine, earnest version of Yazoo’s ‘Only You’. It sounds like it was recorded for a John Lewis advert and everything. So ironic.
It’s all a bit like rain on your wedding day, isn’t it? Yes, that is exactly what it is like. Exactly. And now Corden has combined his talk show and duetting skills to bring another song into the 21st century. He hooked up with Alanis Morissette to create a new list of things that aren’t actually ironic at all in song form.
To be fair, the new lyrics do reference the fact that none of the things they sing about are actually ironic. Very self-satirising. Mainly they run through a list of things that are annoying in the modern world: accepting a Facebook request before you realise someone’s racist, failing to screengrab a Snapchat, a no smoking sign when you brought your vape, Netflix when you own DVDs. That sort of thing.
They also reference Twitter ‘faves’, when they were changed to ‘likes’ last week, meaning the updated song was out of date before it even came out. Oh my god the irony.
And here is the greatest irony of all, the video I’ve just written a massive lead in for isn’t viewable outside the US. And who would’ve thought it figures…?
