Isn't It Ironic?

In case you haven't already seen Alanis Morissette's video for her cover version of the Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps", you should probably watch it right now, since it's probably the most ridiculous (and disturbing) video I've ever seen. If it's meant to be a joke, it's totally deadpan (give or take the laughter at the end, which may or may not have just been added by whoever posted it) and not really very funny. If it's supposed to be serious, what the hell is the point? Furthermore, why would Alanis Morrisette , a somewhat respectable recording artist, record a cover of the worst song ever recorded?

At first I thought it was some kind of lame statement about the exploitation of women in hip-hop culture or something like that, since Alanis does add a pathos that's (for better or worse) distinctly absent from the original. Unfortunately, the lyrics are so asinine that they basically force any interpretation into the realm of self-parody. So, given her experience doing sketch comedy, one might then assume that this is some kind of satire, which, as I mentioned above, would be completely redundant. The only way I can make sense of this video is as a gross misintermpretation of the concept of irony, which is apparently a recurring theme in her work (appropriately - or perhaps ironically - this video ends up being about as ironic as rain on your wedding day). So I've come to the conclusion that the reason that thinking about this song/video is giving me a headache is because there is, in fact, nodiscernible meaning behind it. It's pretty much the musical equivalent of a "Bong Hits for Jesus" banner whose bizarre combination of signifiers ultimately conveys nothing other than the astounding ability of pop singers (Alanis included) to pour their total conviction into terrible poetry.