Abstract
A pop song is one of the popular genres widespread in society. The label 'popular' is used as it covers a diverse range of masses, started from pre-dominantly youth to adult, that target them as the market. To the extent of the popular meaning, a song is supported with alluring music video clips, entertaining musical instruments, and lyrics that make an addiction by turning the repeat mode on a music player. Regardless, no all of the songs carried by singers incorporate lyric meanings of what they indeed seem. They thus frequently embed figurative features of the language to fit the context of a song. The figurative language feature is a variety of language that authors operate to convey out of the comprehension of literal meaning. It then involves no surface context instead of a deep one. Therefore, this descriptive qualitative analysis study was conducted to investigate how figurative language features carry and influence the meaning behind BLACKPINK-Selena Gomez's song Ice Cream. The findings showed that metaphor (48%) was the most frequent figure spotted in the musical discourse, followed respectively by simile (28%), hyperbole (12%), and repetition (12%). It indicated the song was intended to convey the lyrics contained no real-context meanings that can cause misleading or even be puzzlement if the listeners cannot comprehend the song as a whole. Therefore, further research may comprehensively consider this issue with different perspectives to broaden the language field.
Highlights
A pop song is excessively popular among people
This concern positively relates to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) that mainly focuses on the digressive portrayal of power abuse, such as sexism, racism, and other social disproportion models
Based on the findings and discussion above, it can be concluded that numerous kinds of figurative language were found in the song lyrics
Summary
A pop song is excessively popular among people. The term 'popular' prevails due to constituents associated with the recognition, consumption, broadcasting, and/or societal array (Shuker, 2010). As a result, this brings figurative features to get a spotlight on the stage. The release resulted in being pinnacle at the 13th position on the US Billboard Hot 100, making BLACKPINK's first single to soar inside the chart as the top twenty This triumph put Ice Cream became the lengthiestregistering song on the Hot 100 by a girl-membered Korean-pop group. The song may bring implications in terms of the culturebased meaning of figurative features that need to take the issue into account This concern positively relates to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) that mainly focuses on the digressive portrayal of power abuse, such as sexism, racism, and other social disproportion models (van Dijk, 2015). Based on the prior explanation above, two research questions were proposed: 1) what are figurative language categories spotted in Ice Cream? 2) what is the figurative language implicit meaning in Ice Cream? As the issue had been discussed, this empirical study was expected to grant language enrichment in a lyric discourse that comprised a wide variety of figurative communication means for scholars and language educators
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