Abstract
Some song lyrics may have been banned or rescheduled for their radio and television broadcasts. Those song lyrics were claimed to propagandize negative contents. Recently West Java Broadcasting Commission has regulated the broadcast of 17 western songs for the prejudice of negative contents. Based on semantic analysis of those song lyrics, the authors finally found out that they qualitatively describe lust, profanity, drug and alcohol abuse, etc. through periphrasis, simile, litotes, meiosis, and other speech figures. Clauses were selected to deliver the figures of speech of the lyrics sung by mostly male singers and the male-female duets in pop and r and b music genres.
Highlights
Song lyrics are considered as parts of creative literary work performed with various music genres
Negative contents of the song lyrics Negative contents being propagandized in the 17 songs having been banned for radio and television broadcasts during the day vary in some way
Young people must be aware that song lyrics exposing negative contents truly violate the social values, norms of Islam, and their way of life
Summary
Song lyrics are considered as parts of creative literary work performed with various music genres Those who enjoy song lyrics with different music genres vary in age, education, ethnicity, culture, and country. The main goal of such creative literary work is to entertain the song lyric writers themselves, the singers, and the listeners. Differences in ideology and socio-religious norm among the song lyric writers, singers, and listeners pertaining to the content may create anxiety. Such an anxiety has so far triggered broadcast banning or broadcast banning during the day. K-pop song lyrics of South Korea was reported to be banned in North Korea (Koreaboo, 2018).
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