Assertion: situational irony | /r/DefinedAs | seems
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text: In 2014, Michael Reid Roberts wrote for Salon.com a defense of the song's use of the term "ironic", as he states that the song cites situational ironies, which is defined as the "state of affairs or event[s] that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result", as some of the situations described in the lyrics could in fact be said to be "ironic".