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There have been a lot of songs that have lyrics and titles that seem to be ironic, either in an incidental or deliberate way. I was thinking about this while looking at the Coincidences thread and almost posted this on there, although as it is to do with songs, I thought I would post it here instead. Here are some examples:
1) The B side of Tracey Ullman's "They Don't Know" was literally called "The B Side" - it even made it as a track on her of her CD albums.
2) Lithuania's 2006 entry for the Eurovision Song Contest was called "We Are The Winners" by LT United, a song which sounded like a football term chant, singing about winning the Eurovision Song Contest, which of course they didn't do that year (or for any year so far). "We are the winners of Eurovision..." etc.
3) Rosemary Clooney singing "This Ole House" back in 1954, and singing "This Ole House is getting Shaky". And she was absolutely right - the song did get Shaky some 27 years later!
4) Blondie (and Atomic Kitten)'s "The Tide is High" which tells us which chart position it will be in its lyrics - "I'm Going to be your Number One" etc - (it's a pity that the Tremeloe's hit (Call Me) Number One only got to number two however...)
And of course, Madonna didn't have a hit called Lady Beatles, but it did happen the other way round.
Are there any other ironic lyrics and titles in songs that come to mind apart from the ones that I have already mentioned here?
1) The B side of Tracey Ullman's "They Don't Know" was literally called "The B Side" - it even made it as a track on her of her CD albums.
2) Lithuania's 2006 entry for the Eurovision Song Contest was called "We Are The Winners" by LT United, a song which sounded like a football term chant, singing about winning the Eurovision Song Contest, which of course they didn't do that year (or for any year so far). "We are the winners of Eurovision..." etc.
3) Rosemary Clooney singing "This Ole House" back in 1954, and singing "This Ole House is getting Shaky". And she was absolutely right - the song did get Shaky some 27 years later!
4) Blondie (and Atomic Kitten)'s "The Tide is High" which tells us which chart position it will be in its lyrics - "I'm Going to be your Number One" etc - (it's a pity that the Tremeloe's hit (Call Me) Number One only got to number two however...)
And of course, Madonna didn't have a hit called Lady Beatles, but it did happen the other way round.
Are there any other ironic lyrics and titles in songs that come to mind apart from the ones that I have already mentioned here?
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