Any exceptionally stupid or illiterate phrase found in a pop song. Particularly if it's then defended or expounded upon in various "meanings of lyrics" sites or in
fan writing. A
lot of pop stars were so totally created by
parents/managers/agents/etc. that they went straight from a suburban bedroom to the celeb suites without having read a book or talked to a real person on the way, getting all their alleged education from other pop songs and
tv.
The words "fork stuck in the road" originally occurred in a Green
Day song, and in a later interview (urban legend has it) the songwriter came up with a long story about how people on journeys would
stick a dinner fork into the road to show they'd been there or some such -- apparently being unaware that a dinner fork was originally a "forked
spoon", i.e.
one that split, the way a forked
stick or a forked road splits, and that a "fork in the road" is a place where you make a decision, not a milestone or boundary marker. (I can find no evidence that any such interview occurred, but it seems to be widely believed in).
"Hey, somebody should tell Alanis that every
time you hear the rolling thunder, it means the lightning already missed you. And read her a
definition of
ironic."
"That's like so unfair! She was saying that like, he runs away when there's no reason to! And she was making fun of the way people use the word ironic wrong!"
"Naw, it was just another fork stuck in the road. She's the fork stuck in the road goddess."
