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I propose that we rename this article. The title has almost nothing at all to do with the actual trope. I get that the idea was that the song\'s lyrics were meant to be ironic but the people using the song didn\'t get that, but to look at all these examples (and the laconic description), the trope is actually about accidental misuse of songs in general, not just ones with ironic lyrics. It\'s easy to see why this became the case - a trope solely concerned with unironic misuse of ironic songs would be TooRareToTrope. That, combined with the fact that there are enough examples of the Trope as-is to make it worth considering as a trope, I think it would be more optimal to change the Trope name than, say, remove every example that doesn\'t pertain to ironic lyrics. Maybe we should give it a more fitting, more self-descriptive name: something like \
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I propose that we rename this article. The title has almost nothing at all to do with the actual trope. I get that the idea was that the song\\\'s lyrics were meant to be ironic but the people using the song didn\\\'t get that, but to look at all these examples (and the laconic description), the trope is actually about accidental misuse of songs in general, not just ones with ironic lyrics. It\\\'s easy to see why this became the case - a trope solely concerned with unironic misuse of ironic songs would be Administrivia/TooRareToTrope. That, combined with the fact that there are enough examples of the Trope as-is to make it worth considering as a trope, I think it would be more optimal to change the Trope name than, say, remove every example that doesn\\\'t pertain to ironic lyrics. Maybe we should give it a more fitting, more self-descriptive name: something like \\\"Misaimed Soundtrack.\\\" What do you guys think?
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I propose that we rename this article. The title has almost nothing at all to do with the actual trope. I get that the idea was that the song\'s lyrics were meant to be ironic but the people using the song didn\'t get that, but to look at all these examples (and the laconic description), the trope is actually about accidental misuse of songs in general, not just ones with ironic lyrics. It\'s easy to see why this became the case - a trope solely concerned with unironic misuse of ironic songs would be TooSpecificToTrope. That, combined with the fact that there are enough examples of the Trope as-is to make it worth considering as a trope, I think it would be more optimal to change the Trope name than, say, remove every example that doesn\'t pertain to ironic lyrics. Maybe we should give it a more fitting, more self-descriptive name: something like \
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I propose that we rename this article. The title has almost nothing at all to do with the actual trope. I get that the idea was that the song\\\'s lyrics were meant to be ironic but the people using the song didn\\\'t get that, but to look at all these examples (and the laconic description), the trope is actually about accidental misuse of songs in general, not just ones with ironic lyrics. It\\\'s easy to see why this became the case - a trope solely concerned with unironic misuse of ironic songs would be TooRareToTrope. That, combined with the fact that there are enough examples of the Trope as-is to make it worth considering as a trope, I think it would be more optimal to change the Trope name than, say, remove every example that doesn\\\'t pertain to ironic lyrics. Maybe we should give it a more fitting, more self-descriptive name: something like \\\"Misaimed Soundtrack.\\\" What do you guys think?
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