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The Song 2 Paradox

The song 2 paradox is a literary device that is based off of the song “Song 2” written by the band Blur. This song was written by them to mock the grunge style of bands like Nirvana, however it became their most popular song-by a lot. So for use as a literary device the song 2 paradox is used when someone in a story does something to mock someone or does something accidentally but that thing turns out to be extremely successful. An example of this can be seen in the movie Forest Gump when lieutenant Dan makes fun of Forests dream of being a shrimp boat captain and is so confident it’s not going to happen that he says he’d be his first mate. Gump went and bought a ship and so Dan being a man of just word became his first mate and so Dan along with Gump became extremely rich.