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Ironic (song)

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I've listed this article for peer review because I am planing to take this to GAN, but unfortunately my prose is always pretty bad. Also, the article is supposed to be in Canadian English, but I only know the American and British English. Thank you so much. Tbhotch* ^{۩ ۞} 02:56, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Seegoon's review

• In the lead, "Canadian American" should be hyphenated (it's a compound adjective).
• "He commented "I'm telling you," – I think you need a colon between 'commented' and 'I'm'.
• I think you can probably delink 'comedian', for concerns of overlinking.
• "Also satirists Berger and Wyse parodied the song in one segment of their cartoon strip The Pitchers." – a fairly lengthy sentence. I'd restructure this.
• "Morissette "surprising made [it] worse"." – grammatically this sense makes no. Should it be 'surprisingly'?
• "reached the number five on the Adult Top 40" – poor grammar.
• "It was last seen on the chart on July 21, 1996," – makes it sound like a fugitive. "Last appeared" instead?

  lol Tbhotch* ^{۩ ۞} 02:51, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

• "To date, "Ironic" is her biggest hit on the country." – bizarre grammar.
• "In European countries the song was well-received." – again, weird construction. "The song was generally well-received throughout Europe", perhaps?
• "At the Norwegian Singles Charts," – in the Norwegian...
• "In Belgium, it reached the sixth place on the Ultratop 50 (Flanders region), and the ninth place on the Ultratop 40 (Wallonia zone)." – this 'the ninth place' thing is a little weird; just 'ninth place' without the article (the) will do just fine. Same applies for 'the sixth place'.
• ""Ironic" music video was directed by Stéphane Sednaoui." – strange construction. "The music video for 'Ironic'..." would work better.
• "On it, Morissette features driving a dark blue 1977 Lincoln Mark V through a winter landscape." – In it. 'Features' is a little jarring too; 'appears' might be easier to instantly parse. The same applies for the image caption – which could do with some context (i.e. make it clear that the photo isn't a screenshot from the video).
• "VH1's 100 Greatest Videos [41]" – errant space between text and ref. I'd move this to the end of the sentence anyway; mid-sentence refs are ugly and unnecessary.
• "was included on Morissette's CD/DVD" – I think you can unlink these terms. The article's already extremely blue and some may say this borders on overlinking.
• ""It's meeting the man of my dreams /And then meeting his beautiful husband".[48][49][50][51]" – do we need four references? I highly doubt it.
• "as well for the compilation album Cities 97 Sampler," – delink compilation album here.
• "Since then, "Ironic" was included in her albums MTV Unplugged (1999),[57] Feast on Scraps (2002),[58] Live in the Navajo Nation (2002),[59] and The Collection;[60] as well as 1997 Grammys and the MTV Unplugged compilation albums." – this is a giant, snakey sentence. For one, I'd change 'was' to 'has been', and for what it's worth, the semicolon doesn't really work in this context.

There you have it – my two cents. A great article, really nicely referenced. The grammar gets a bit funky from time to time, but there's nothing here which can't be rectified. Congratulations and good luck. Seegoon (talk) 00:08, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

• • Thank you so much Seegoon, and for make me laugh a while, I've resolved most of your comments. Thank you again. Tbhotch* ^{۩ ۞} 02:51, 29 April 2011 (UTC)