Every time someone uses the word "irony" on the internet someone comes along and makes this point. I suppose like stopped clocks these commenters must be right at least occasionally. This is not one of those occasions.
* the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
* a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.
* a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.A song about irony which doesn't contain a single instance of irony.
https://www.salon.com/2014/05/08/what_everybody_gets_wrong_a...