who wrote what's so funny bout peace love and understanding
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" is a 1974 song written by English singer/songwriter Nick Lowe and subsequently covered by Elvis Costello and Curtis Stigers.
Ironic (song) The song's usage of the word "ironic" attracted media attention for an improper application of the term; according to Jon Pareles of The New York Times, the song gives a distinct "unironic" sense in its implications.[5][6] According to the Oxford English Dictionary "irony" is "a figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used".[7] Thus, lyrics such as "It's like rain on your wedding day" and "A traffic jam when you're already late" are not ironic.[8] Morissette commented about the writing of the song: "For me the great debate on whether what I was saying in 'Ironic' was ironic wasn't a traumatic debate. I'd always embraced the fact that every once in a while I'd be the malapropism queen. And when Glen and I were writing it, we definitely were not doggedly making sure that everything was technically ironic".[8] In 2014, Michael Reid Roberts penned for Salon.com a defense of the song's use of the term "ironic", as the song cites situational ironies,[9] 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",[10] as some of the situations described in the lyrics could in fact be said to be "ironic".[9]